Everything is on autopilot. A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home, Mark’s family drifts in isolation, escaping the lazy afternoon, when reality circles back.
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How come community novels song 500 years ago can be so explicitly related to author songs from five weeks ago in its methods and purposes? How can urban handcrafted authorship be so similar to the rural oral tradition variations?
It’s a lazy summer for Giacomo and Stefania. They wander through the woods of northeastern Italy to find just the perfect river to chill. They are teens with no worries, they are just living. Simplicity and sensuality take over in this docu-drama full of summer sounds and layed back images reminding us what it means being alive. Their relationship never gets defined, it’s extremely loving and sensual and when the night falls the local luna park welcomes them with the merry-go rounds, teddy bears and music where they close their eyes and just dance with all the clumsiness of their youth. A film that smells like watermelon suncream, tastes like salt, feels like sand and sounds like crickets arousing all our senses. (Nina Veligradi)
Eleven-year-old Ellen doesn’t speak with her voice but with her hands. She uses sign language because she is deaf. She would much rather go to an ordinary school or to the school for the hard of hearing, just like her best friend Myrthe, who is hard of hearing. But will she be admitted there?
A portrait of Astika, who lives on an island in Denmark. He has lived in a run down farm house for 15 years and his project has been to let the land around him grow unchecked, but now he has been forced to move out by people who prefer more pristine neighbors.
A roman-photo of details, with words and images. Supersonic aircraft-profound sadness-monkey-spider-elephant. A child dives into the lexicon of a vast library and tries to build the future starting from endangered animal species. With Marker in mind, the no formulation of a theory comes from the very impossibility of the world. (Miguel Valverde)
Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be a grown up. In the room they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic competition and Victoria has boys coming and going.
Isabelle (Florence Loiret Caille) is a teacher. Bruno (Guillaume Depardieu) is a thief. Together, they start believing they could find happiness. The day the police tightens the noose round him, Bruno runs away, taking Isabelle along with him. In the heart of the forest, they hide and love each other, timelessly, in an ultimate attempt to keep the violence of the world away.
A young engineer has a managing position at a factory in Bamako. He skillfully solves urgent problems and his new methods meet with the approval of the work force. But his efforts to have the workers involved in decision-making processes incur the disfavor of the owner of the company, who has him murdered without further ado. With the engineer Balla Traoré Souleymane Cissé created a symbolic figure for an entire generation of critical intellectuals who showed a great deal of commitment in trying to establish a fair society in post-colonial Africa.
In 1999, Alcatel laid Southeast Asia’s first optical fiber cable, which crosses Cambodia from Thailand. This installation project provided several months of employment for many Cambodians, especially those from rural areas facing uncertain economic conditions. This documentary illustrates the hardships, dignity, and wit of these workers while providing insight into the social and economic contradictions facing contemporary Cambodia.
A musician on the road. The spirit of rock. Rock n’roll. The trailer. The journey. The rest are human encounters on a cold Europe. From Spain to the Netherlands, beginning in a rehearsal’s session in Palmela. There’s Mazgani’s gift. The return home and the show in Lisbon. The glory of a glaring internationalization.
Joost seems like any ordinary 10-year-old boy who goes to school and likes to play outside. But Joost is different, because he has Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There is so much going on in his head that he finds it very difficult to concentrate.
Vivid, imaginative ode to love. Absurdist animation, based on the poem An Anna Blume by the famous Dadaist Kurt Schwitters.
A luxury ski resort in Switzerland. 12-year-old Simon lives in the industrial valley below, with his jobless sister. Every day, he takes the ski-lift to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from the rich tourists. He loses his boundaries. Confronted with a truth he and his sister had both been escaping, he seeks refuge up above.
The time, right before the French Revolution of 1789, the hero, Louis Mandrin a notorious outlaw famous for his trafficking contraband out of the French borders. He is caught and executed and his companions led financially by the idealist aristocrat Marquis of Levezin (Jacques Nolot), they started an underground network to publicize Mandrin’s poems and songs. A period drama, a representation of an era long gone and yet so contemporary, filled with poetry at a unique open space where cinema meets history and politics. Thieves, murderers, poets, rebellious and vengeful warriors signify the beginning of the French Revolution through their intense and progressive spirit. The need of freedom is evident throughout the film, not only by its brutal lyricism but also by the crude French landscape that becomes itself a character. (Nina Veligradi)
Anna is a 12-year-old girl, living in a small fishing village. She is at a crossroad in her life. Her surroundings are changing – and so is she.
By nightfall, around a campfire, Serigne, a young man from Dakar in his twenties, tells his friends his clandestine odyssey.