This is the story of a passionate collector, Mithat, and the concierge of his building, Ali. For Mithat, Istanbul is as vast as his collections, while for Ali, who comes from a country village, it is nothing more than a few blocks around him. When the neighbors decide to have the building rebuilt for fear of earthquakes and the desire for a more valuable house, Mithat’s most challenging struggle to save his collections begins. The building becomes the common destiny of these two men living alone, who will involuntarily change each others fate.
In a snowed-in log cabin, a widow lives with her four grown-up daughters, all with their own desires for love and intimacy. The strong Catholic faith and their mourning that has tormented them for years have condemned them to a life of chastity. Mysterious deer-men change their existence.
The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down.But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse.
9 Lives portrays some young people who left home as teenagers to live in the streets of Berlin. Maria Speth doesn’t show them in the street, she films them in the neutral set of a studio where the black and white reveals their faces, their gestures and
20 displaced families occupy the Palermo’s town hall in Italy for a month. With a fluid camera and always attentive with his framing, tefano Savona, Alessia Porto and Ester Sparatore follow the chaotic daily life of these families in the interior of the p
The man responsible for the actual economic crisis reveals himself as an anarchist. The interviewer seems to be out of arguments. If the speech is effective and coherent in 2011, what about if we look back to text’s date (1924) and to his auhtor (Fernando
A key figure of the international terrorism of the 70’s and 80’s, Carlos, “the Jackal”, was associated with the extreme-right and, at the same time, considered an opportunistic mercenary working for the secret services of the Asian governments. United wit
A desolate stretch of earth somewhere in the heart of Australia. A group of tribal Aborigines struggles to defend a sacred site against the bulldozers of a mining company. It is the place where the Green Ants dream.
Constructed as a triptych where the whole is intended to be greater than the sum of the parts, using industrial and documentary film footage from 1940-1975 to follow the endless chug of the conveyer belt of life. A symphony of movement and metamorphosis, images of factories, educational and creative industries.
Based on the stage play by Georg Büchner, the film follows the powerful story of the poor soldier Woyzeck driven to madness and murder by the social conditions in which he lives. Shot in Czechoslovakia, “Woyzeck” it’s the third of the five films made by the Herzog-Kinski team.
Billed as “pensioners behaving badly”, Young@Heart is a chorus like no other. With an average age of 80, their renditions of rock’n’roll songs from the likes of Coldplay, Hendrix and The Clash have won terrific reviews all over the world.This touching documentary follows chorus members as they prepare a new show.
A film in 16mm black and white. Through its double exposure, Todd reaches the delicacy of a visual poetry near abstraction. Its strong contrast between light and shadows, the image’s texture and the sound’s subtlety, take us into the landscapes of a dream
In the present era, where the labor issues reveal their fundamental importance, a court in Swiss solves the arguments between employees and employers. Stéphane Goél focuses in the audiences in court and in the discourse of its interveners. Throughout a ri
80% of the workers of the mines and metallurgic French companies in the 70’s were immigrants from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. “Men Standing” crosses the memories of these workers in black and white, through the ancient factories’ ruins, following the st
Jalainur (a Mongolian word meaning “ocean-like lake”), located in the northernmost part of China, near the border of China and Russia, is an open-pit colliery with over-100-years of history, where you can still see the unusual sight of steam trains in service. Now the “huge pit” is almost empty, the steam trains will be retired, and a large number of colliery workers are facing the crisis of being laid off. The two protagonists of this film are Old Zhu, a steam train driver, and his apprentice, Li Zhizhong, a train signalman, they have worked very closely together. The entire film is shot on actual location in Jalainur.
A fascinating portrait of the Wodaabe tribe of the Sahara, who consider themselves the world’s most beautiful people.
Integrated in the “Civic Life” project (IndieLisboa 2009), this new segment intertwines stories of people who need to raise their own voices. Leo and Veronica have something to tell; grandmother made a decision and the granddaughter needs inspiration. It’
“Flag Mountain”‘s point of departure are a series of fixed images very precisely choose and a sound design that follows the population of Nicosia (Chipre). The Turkish flag will appear in the mountain in the north of the city and we hear the national Hymn
