A lyrical journey in the chiaroscuro images of suicide and the inherent aspects of depression, mortality and isolation. A series of anecdotes suggest the various ways suicide can be perceived, contemplated, and enacted. The work includes accounts of several suicides including the Italian Holocaust survivor Primo Levi.
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A love letter to the genre which got Rivers into film in the first place – these films in particular, which he saw when he was about 10-12, due to a dodgy video shop owner in his village who seemed to enjoy pushing these films onto young minds.
Un 45 tour de cheveu (ceci n’est pas un disque) is a project of found footage in collaboration with musicians of group Cheveu.
A man is hired to clear off a synchrotron center. Upon exploring the facilities, the man finds photographs, that brings him back to past experiences that occurred in that space.
Thousands of people climb a rocky mountain terrain. Their destination and purpose remains unclear. A vague, mysterious and unsettling pilgrimage in which we witness the eternal struggle of humankind to reach the summit.
Lemonade Tale tells about Joonas shopping with his mom; he wants some lemonade but Mom refuses to buy it; unhappy Joonas still takes a bottle off the shelf and gets sucked into it; trapped in the bubble-soda bottle he finds a friend who helps him return.
Pipeline is a film about modern Europe, about two of its edges, or to put it more precisely ‚ two of its extremes. This is a film about Europe, which spans from the barren land of eternal winters of Siberia to the complaisant Bay of Biscay, where even the laws of nature form fundamentally different paradigms of human existence. What can possibly connect such ostensibly different lives? Tangibly, it does so through the pipeline “Western Siberia ‚ Western Europe”. The pipeline has, however, not only connected but also inextricably merged “this” Russia with “that” Europe.
April 1974: two Swiss radio journalists are sent to Portugal to report on Swiss aid in that country. Bob, a technician nearing retirement, accompanies them in his trusty Combi VW. But when they get there, nothing goes to plan: there are tensions between feminist Julie and Cauvin, the wily war reporter. Despite all the best intentions of Pelé, the young Portuguese translator, there is no other option but to abort the mission. But the tide of History ends up blowing the Combi VW right into the heart of the Carnation Revolution.
Retrato is a film about the memory of a place, a home, a family, in a dialogue between portraits hanging on the walls who talk about their feelings, power games, thus creating an atmosphere of mystery and seduction.
Filmed during the International Symposium on the Concentration Camp of Tarrafal, which reunited in the island of Santiago, Cape Vert, many of those who passed by there – Portuguese anti-fascists (1936-1954) and nationalists from Angola, Guiné-Bissau and Cape Vert (1962-1974). The documentary gathers the memories of the Portuguese Edmundo Pedro, one of the two survivals of the camp’s first period, and of those from Angola, Guiné-Bissau and Cape Vert who were incarcerated there following the fight from liberation in the colonies.
John Wagner has been a guard at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the past 30 years. He narrates his story, how he got there, what he has been doing throughout all these years and what he is waiting for.
11 year-old Aaron plays a game of Hide and Seek in which his friend Tony is never found. The mystery of their relationship – and of their queer attachment to the armoire in Aaron’s bedroom – can only be revealed, it turns out, through hypnosis.
Set in 1970s New Zealand. Andy, a gutsy eight-year-old boy, is forced to break out of his make-believe superhero world to deal with playground bullies.
Coisa de Alguém is documentary film which depicts the workaday life of a lost and found office in Lisbon, reflecting upon notions of property, loss and retrieval, and the dynamics of a modern complex society.
Rabbit and Deer live happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension; after an unexpected accident Deer finds himself in a new world and the two friends have to find the way back to each other.
A contemporary fable of realistic tones. The film goes through the deep and parallel universes of two women: Shelly, a young dancer who dreams of becoming a Brega singer and Jaqueline, the veteran singer of the band where Shelly dances, her inspiration and possible mirror of her destiny. Both of them are in search of their dreams in a city, Recife, which is boiling development dreaming of its future by destroying its past.
In 1975, Pasolini had already mentioned the Disappearance of the Fireflies and the imminent triumph of the Castle of Lies. Forty years later, French director Vincent Dieutre travels to Sicily for the first time looking for a new political hope. This documentary shows places, words, and bodies looking for the surviving fireflies. Here, Sicily isn’t a remote place but part of the contemporary complexity that blends the Internet with the new landscapes of love, the illegal migrants and the touristic shores on the south. Sicily seen as a metaphor of what is Europe today.
In their closed-off underground village, Kamina and Simon chafe at the limits imposed by the village elder. Yet all this will change, when Simon stumbles across a fantastic device – just as the village’s peace is broken by a violent intrusion.