Can animals live together without eating each other? )
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In “Gypsophila” film director Margarida Leitão looks at the life of her grandmother through the memories and hesitant words of two people who love each other and share the same blood. )
Even small dinossaurs should get a haircut.)
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God’s place? Director’s statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.)
“Here is Lisbon” is a film directed by Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, and Marie Losier to celebrate Indielisboa’s tenth anniversary. Four different short-films filmed in Lisbon that celebrate the richness and values of independent filmmaking.)
“Horsepower” looks at the decay of friendship and the refusal to keep up with old traditions.)
Huge animals and huge passions – and a domestic crime.)
“I for Iran” unites a teacher and a student around their native language (Persian) in an empty classroom to look for freedom behind it.)
Import: Olga, a young nurse in the Ukraine, dreams of a better life in the West. She emigrates to Austria and becomes a cleaning lady in a geriatric hospital, where an 82 year old patient proposes to her. Export: Paul, a young Austrian security guard in search of a reason to get up in the morning, heads east with his stepfather to try his luck. They end up in the Ukraine, where alcohol and girls are abundant.
Berlin’s Deutschlandhalle on 20 November, 1971. The lonely figure of Kinski appears in the spotlight on an empty stage to recite his own text, Jesus Christus Erloser. The performance marks the realisation of a project which had preoccupied him for more than ten years. This is the age of the hippy movement; the musical Jesus Christ Superstar is a sensational success. But Kinski’s Jesus Christus Erloser is no hippy happening. It is intended as an intensely emotional reading, concentrating purely on the actor’s voice. A document, not just about a generation that was questioning authority, that had a difficult relationship to art ‚ but also about an artist at a particular point in his career.
Jan Soldat’s sharp editing shows us the automatic and tender gestures of pleasure in sexual intercourse.)
Short-film about the history and legends of Serpa’s landscape.)
In the second half of 90’s decade, The Wire magazine coined such a controversial concept: post-rock. The term was used to define the music of some bands with styles that didn’t fit in any of the other genres predetermined by the industry and market. Introspective explores the reasons behind some of those bands, their words and live shows, so to offer a portrait of underground or indie music as an emotional allegory of our global societies.
A story which might take place in anybody’s life. The death of a person starts a chain reaction which involves the neighbors. A satire of the world we live in based on a true story.
The film is about people and basements and what people do in their basements in their free time. The film is about obsessions. The film is about brass-band music and opera arias, about expensive furniture and cheap male jokes, about sexuality and shooting, fitness and fascism, whips and dolls. After his ambitious Paradise Trilogy, Ulrich Seidl returns to the documentary form with “In the Basement.” A film essay that is both funny and sad, it uses the director’s characteristic film tableaux to delve into the underground of the Austrian soul.)
What happens when it’s our turn to look at the countryside?)
Sandrine and her aunty Irène, both of Russian origin, drink tea and reminisce about their mutual ancestors. Irène recalls her painful childhood at the moment the ruling regime collapsed. Sandrine drifts off on daydreams inhabited by two imaginary characters: Irinka and Sandrinka.
Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her, and several respond: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a witch and a handsome prince. This worthy Prince Charles lookalike has to leave his royal suburb to save the princess, but will Betty be wakened with just a kiss? Drawn in Indian ink, this animation sets the Perrault classic in Cloutier’s disjointed, anachronistic and playful universe.