Até o céu leva mais ou menos 15 minutos joins in a car two mothers and three kids; it is a 15 minute drive from a children’s party to home that begins with seemingly uncontrollable chaos and ends with total tranquillity.
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This intimate portrait will reveal uncommon stories of groundbreaking visual artist and pioneer of minimalist electronic rock, Alan Vega, vocalist and composer for 1970s and 80s punk/post punk duo Suicide. Alan plays with the camera and enjoys the friendship of filmmaker Losier, while also loving, fighting and living with his family—Liz Lamere, his wife and collaborator, and their son Dante, young replica of Alan. Traces of joy, eccentricity, illumination but also deep fatigue and slow Suicide. The rock-n-roll Alan is still very alive, funny and rebellious!
Jamey is 16 and has had a stutter since he was four-years-old; he has tried everything to change this, but nothing has helped; soon he is going to start training to become a sports teacher and needs to overcome his stuttering; in Jamey’s Fight he picks up all his courage and tries one last time.
Sincerity demands that you move your arms away from each other and by opening your hands, you open them to the outside, because sincerity unfurls the wrinkles of the soul.
In this modern re-working of a classic fairytale, a young girl is told to go and deliver something to her Grandmother who is ill. In the course of her journey she discovers that the adult world can be a dangerous place.
The First Lebanon War, June, 1982. A lone tank and a platoon of paratroopers are dispatched to search a hostile town that has been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. The mission gets out of control and turns into a death trap. The film’s heroes are the tank crew: Shmulik the gunner, Assi the commander, Herzl the loader and Yigal the driver, four 20 year old boys, operating a killing machine. They are not courageous war heroes, eager for battle or self-sacrifice. All they have is a terrible fear of death.
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. It has been called a sequel/ variation to “Happiness” and its characters also return from “Welcome To the Dollhouse”.
Alda is an animation about the transformations of the rural world and its consequences for those who have always lived there and can now only identify themselves with the interior of their houses.
Blending fiction with documentary form Denis Côté visits those who get their hands dirty in a sort of blue collar, ethnographic study of different hoods and job titles. The result is an open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest ‚ a state of repose whose quality defies definition?
Alentejo, South of Portugal. Dozens of amateur a capella polyphonic choirs gather regularly to sing old polyphonic songs and new lyrics about present times. This is «cante». Born in the taverns and in the fields, sung by miners and peasants, «cante» was transmitted from generation to generation. This film is a journey into present Portugal, discovering «cante» music, and the life of the performers who seem to express the deep voice of the Earth.
In the 70s, a young Yugoslavian filmmaker, Karpo Godina travelled with his camera through the flat hinterland of Vojvodina; unfortunately, only a few fragments of this original film were preserved; Karpotrotter repeats Godina’s journey, taking along fragments of the original material, in an attempt to recover what one can only assume he saw.
Joseph is a shy, introverted little boy who collects snails. One day he gets swallowed up by his own tummy-button and discovers the disturbing world of the “navel-gazers”, people who, by only communicating with their navel, curl in on themselves and turn into snails …
Cowboys aren’t scared to die. Their death, always spectacular, is the grand finale of a tragic destiny. But when a cowboy messes up his exit, when he seems to hesitate foolishly between life and death, the Western turns out to be waxes metaphysical.
Welsh musician Gruff Rhys documents his latest musical road trip, retracing the fantastical adventure of his 18th Century relative, the explorer John Evans, who travelled to America in 1792 in search of a lost tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans. Alone and without a horse, he walked into the wilderness of the Great Plains and reappeared 7 years later as Don Juan Evans having changed the shape of American history. Fiction, fact, fantasy, myth and music documentary collide in American Interior as Rhys uncovers Evans’ legacy to American, the true circumstances of his death, and his final resting place.
Anal Juke is a bizarre Japanese animation in the form of eschatological kaleidoscope of colour and sound.
40 years ago, in the summer of 1970, on a island just off England’s southern coastline, a young Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist named Leonard Cohen delivered the performance of a lifetime.
Essay about space and time factors in film using Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman”.