“Countryside by the Sea” looks at overpopulated beaches through the eyes of comedy and animation.)
Archives: Filmes
Rafael resides on his southern Spanish finca with his friends, a group of bohemian refuseniks, adventurers and leftover revolutionaries. They loaf about in style in the idyllic surroundings, playing around, drinking, chatting, reciting verse, posing and performing. Early on, Rafael’s son shows up with his German fiancée, who soon runs off with Julio after some four-handed piano playing. Henry is on a relentless quest for new business ventures and is prospecting for gold in a secret mine; Franziska prefers to ignore the need to earn money; Lucas reads book after book about economics and culture. And then there’s Domingo, who is supposed to relieve a certain Herr Müller of Düsseldorf of three million Euros. )
Bill Benson dreams of being Lucky Luke, but something gets in the way.)
“Domestication” is an animated experience on the differences between animal and human life.)
“Driving Lesson” is another step in André Santos and Marco Leão’s gaze over intimacy and loneliness in an unusual couple and a mother figure.)
Jean-Charles Hue had already created a film out of a Gypsy community in France with “The Lord’s Ride” (shown at IndieLisboa 2011). With “Eat Your Bones”, his work becomes a landmark in French contemporary cinema. Through the shape of action and western films, a family’s future is now tangled between a new life and a vicious one, tied to the furious growls of a racing car that carries its dead and an unavoidable destiny with it.)
Tiago Rossa Rosso films an absurd and comical game between three friends stuck in childhood in the last day of summer.)
“Fassbinder – To Love Without Demands” is a documentary on the German film director with the help of close collaborators and unreleased footage.)
In “Fifteen”, the poor reality of a suburban life also determines its characters’ actions – albeit a desire for fantasy and personal happiness.)
As in Visconti’s “The Earth Trembles” (1948), where cinema came to life through reality, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel saw, in Rabo de Peixe’s fishermen, their reason to keep making films.)
Taipei once was the world capital of cinema. Authors such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien (“A City of Sadness”, 1989; “Millennium Mambo”, 2002) and Edward Yang (“A Bright Summer Day”, 1991; “Yi Yi”, 2000) opened new ways for the portrait of time and how their country’s political history determined their feelings. Growing between China and an attraction for the Western world, Taiwan’s cinema changed the life of Asian film directors (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-Liang) and European ones (Olivier Assayas).)
Rüdiger Suchsland sets a parallel between the freedom of the Weimar Republic’s film industry and the imminent threats of its democratic society (the economic recession and the rise of extremist movements) through the films of Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, G.W. Pabst, Joseph von Sternberg, and the beginnings of Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch.)
Giovanni prefers synchronized swimming to playing football. But his nightmares won’t stop him from going through its competition.)
Our biggest trips can also be made by water. That’s what little Daan will show his parents.)
“Koza” once was boxing at the Olympics. Twenty years later, he’s still dragging himself in his hometown with his manager, a wife and a small kid. A second pregnancy makes him put on his gloves one last time to fight for his baby’s life — and his own.)
A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan’s 8-year absence from exploring the world.)
In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before. The children start to doubt that this woman is actually their mother. It emerges an existential struggle for identity and fundamental trust.)
“Gospel of Anasyrma” is a love story between a young adult and a transgender in Tbilisi suburbs, Georgia.)