A documentary by Laetitia Mikles about Japanese director Naomi Kawase.
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An experimental documentary on Kenneth Anger, shot last year during the Lucca film festival in Toscany.
In Romenia, the two main characters want to escape from the country, like many others during the Ceausescu’s era. The plot is simple but it’s directed towards one objective: the permanent tension. Spaces, light and sounds change just like an initiation co
Hardly knowing each other, two young man search for shelter in the mansion of one of them. There’s a concealed tension which approach and depart them, in gestures demonstrating power. Filomarino films Garrel and Scamarcio following them with a camera in a
Using blown-up, fractured images from the six banned scenes in “Syndromes and a Century” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, it’s a kind of report on the absurdity of an act of censorship while ironically exploring the fragmented history of Thailand.
Sompot Chidgasornpongse was Weerasethakul’s assistant director.
“Pinly & Flau” are four short, funny cartoon movies based on children’s and teenagers’ own embarrassing moments. Each of these three minute films feature either the girl Pinly or the boy Flau.
A train enters a soap factory. Inside it hidden some travellers, immigrants. One of them gets of the train. In the factory she finds relief, help, solidarity.
Without any prejudices, the director treads dangerous ground and it leads to the audience reaction shock. What’s going on behind the glasses of a contemporary home? The film is itself a question on the things we find and what they really are. Our could be
A Black woman, a dog and a young teenager are reunited in the living room of a house. Bit by bit, we discover the character’s relationships. A subtle and intelligent mise-en-scêne replete of looks and little details. (M.C.)
In a city that can be anywhere or nowhere, in a time that can be anytime, teenagers of a same school, but apparently with no connection between them, start to disappear without a trace. We are reminded of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant”, but not only. The musi
She is the Philippine waitress looking for the Prince Charming; he’s the Portuguese immigrant who uses rabbit’s ears because of his job. In this enchanted soap opera, the characters find each other by pure serendipity, and they stumble in dancers and curt
“Pinly & Flau” are four short, funny cartoon movies based on children’s and teenagers’ own embarrassing moments. Each of these three minute films feature either the girl Pinly or the boy Flau.
“Pinly & Flau” are four short, funny cartoon movies based on children’s and teenagers’ own embarrassing moments. Each of these three minute films feature either the girl Pinly or the boy Flau.
“Pinly & Flau” are four short, funny cartoon movies based on children’s and teenagers’ own embarrassing moments. Each of these three minute films feature either the girl Pinly or the boy Flau.
Aza’s life is at a standstill. Since 1 year she has been living with her family in a refugee camp, waiting for a decision from the polish government. Can living in this enclosure from one day to the next have any chance of the normality that she remembers from Chechnya?
In 1975, Thomas Harlan’s crew filmed the Torre Bela’s homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, “Linha Vermelha” revisits this emblematic film of the Portuguese revolutionary period: in which way did Harlan interfered in the
The theme of borders is central to “Morgen” and Marian Crisan emphasizes that the borders are not only geographical but also ‘personal’. In a Romanian town on the borders of Hungary, a middle-aged security guard, Nelu, lives quietly with his wife. One day
Fred belongs to the community of gypsies living in vans. To earn his life he steals BMW’s that his brother Jo after resell. When a dog mysteriously appears and turns into Fred’s symbolic encounter with faith his life suddenly changes. The way the film d