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Archives: Filmes
From the legendary “High School” Vieira Dias and the Ngola Ritmos, in the end of the 40’s to today, this documentary is a voyage into the universe of the Angolan popular music, through the voice of the most important artists of all generations, and having as its background the social and political history of Angola.
Appropriating dialogues from Hollywood movies that deal with the legacy of the Vietnam War and firmly implanting them amongst quiet German suburbs, I’m Not the Enemy cuts open the ways in which a society engaged in war deals with the guilt of problematic returns. How is the war veteran ever to find any degree of acceptance?
“His Excellency, the plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Belgian Crown sacrificed his entire life for his country. His dedication came with a price; he never really had time for me, his son. I thus, decide to come to Brussels to try to make up for lost time.” (Jan Czarlewski)
A kaleidoscopic journey into the parallel musical universe of cult music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties.
A family portrait goes horribly wrong as jealousy and suspicion bubble to the surface under the photographer’s relentless gaze. As the session reaches a disturbing conclusion, it’s clear that this truly will be a day to remember.
We’ve got to have courage to see “Lesser Apes”. At first sight, the stories will seem depraved, the audience will feel insecure. “Some will not accept, others will be proud of us”, tell us Emily. In the end is as simple as this: it’s a musical, animated,
She and He are travelling in the outskirts of a city seeking for a shelter. Her secret is as heavy as her suitcase, he wouldn’t care… We discover her past as they leave civilization to enter the bushes. You might think this is an initiatory film – and y
Marcus and his brother Antoine land in Argentina to celebrate their cousin’s wedding and to discover the pleasures of the capital, Buenos Aires. Marcus is joyful, while Antoine, who has just been dumped, is completely down. Marcus is well decided to cheer up his little brother.
Part of a documentary series based on the Ten Commandments, made for Dutch public television (IKON). “Private” is about the commandment “Thou shalt not steal” and illustrates the secret desire to possess… and therefore, sometimes, to steal.
“A presentation of one of the six chapters of a long Atlantic film, still in construction, that began in 2007, and that follows the contemporary life of the smaller and most isolated Azores’ island, the Corvo. We arrived by boat just like the ancient, a m
“Back to Mandima to find my village and my three best friends in the heart of the Zaire, now R.D.Congo (…) Meanwhile there’s been a war, a varnish of time, 15 years. Nothing changed? Everything has. What is frendship, beyond the skin colour, when one can take the plane and the other can’t? When one uses the informal “you” and the other the formal “You”?” (Rob-Jan Lacombe)
Every year on the 4th of May at exactly 8.00 p.m. traffic stops, and people gather or sit alone in 2 minutes of silence to commemorate the many deaths of the WWII. Still many people, young and old, take part in this ritual, in a country where sorrow is not openly expressed. From early morning till eight at night the director accompanies several women and men during this day and aptly shows the (often unspoken) impression of their memories, finally culminating in a grand finale of silence.
The City of the Dead, is the biggest necropolis in the world, in Cairo. One million inhabitants live there: in the tomb houses or in the buildings that have grown up around the tombs. We can find bakeries, coffee shops, markets, school for the children, mechanics for the cars. Everything inside the cemetery. The City of the Dead is gigantic but it feels like a small village. Mothers want to marry their daughters; boys keep chasing the girls… These things never change. It doesn’t matter if you live in a big city, in a village or in a cemetery.
A young mother tries to manage adolescence and her baby, the living memory of a first love with a not-so-happy ending. The child accompanies her everywhere: from coffee with friends to getting her nails done, confiding her life in front of the camera. With a documentary tone, this fiction transports us to her childish and hopeful universe. (Ágata Pinho)
One may be tempted to see this film as a defense of BDSM rituals. Or believe it traces a parallel between a possessed girl and Israel’s citizens impregnated by the demon of racism. But what if this was actually what’s happening to Israel today? (K.S.)
Honored at IndisLisboa 2010, Rivers returns with an apocalyptical film on utopia. The fictional islands of Eleven, Hiva, Kanzennashima and Somerset are almost sacred, intangible places, with their progressive societies. Here we find Rivers’ sense of time,
Twelve people try to walk four identical routes through the course of a day and a night. Mechanically repeating the same gestures they concentrate on their contamination of the ground and thus their continual re-appropriation of it. They move as if consumed by a single thought. Unaware of the passage of time.