Shot on a boat on the Tyne against the spectacular backdrop of the seven Tyne Bridges, “Twilight” is an intimate exploration of the ebb and flow of life involving five residents from Tyneside. The film was shot on the 18 May 2005.
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David Miller has known his date of death since the age of nine. Shot using a mobile phone over the course of ten years from Lausanne to Ouagadougou, this is a fiction film about the value of human life in an age where everything is at a discount. Life is priceless; death, however, bargains.
The world’s oldest proffesion, prostitution. Being a prostitute has a sord of disarming frankness in relation with other proffetions, it never confusses love with work no matter how much sex it involves. Red light district is the Meca of prostitution and Luise and Martine Fokkens, two adorable twin sisters, have over 50 years of experience. The sisters are simple and happy telling their story with no need to explain, apologise or dramatise. The film it self is not raising any moral questions and they never get victimised, the film is pragmatic given by an optimistic angle with lots of humor. Those girls are simply adorable, they buy condoms, the check the new arrivals in vibrators they are updated on every sex toy of Amsterdam just as any housewife is in kitchen equipment. They are so alive and adventurous, they spank their clients, they dance with them, they engage in dominatrix game, they have a full life. (Nina Veligradi)
It is a sunny afternoon in an enchanted corner of England. Strains of elegiac classical music fade up on the soundtrack, as a camera begins to gently move along a riverbank gradually revealing an elaborate tableau. The perfect English arcadia gives way to varying kinds of misfortune, disruption and violence.
Portrait of a local town hall on a suspiciously hectic day. Every room is booked for some key civic purpose. From sales pitches for retirement community homes, to a children’s disco, to a teenagers’ political rally, the camera takes a restless, sweeping point of view on what issues matter to the local residents.
A baby enters a bar and gets drunk, steals food from other people’s plates and breaks tables and chairs. In thirteen minutes, a full-speed motorcycle passes by us and by the end of it we have no idea what just happened. Las Palmas is Nyholm’s last, raving and politically incorrect animation. (Carlos Ramos)
Travelling through the city of Las Vegas and the encircling desert, Las Vegas | The Meadows examines the soul of a city both real and unreal. Moving from outside to inside, images of facades and voids reveal an empire of ghosts and electricity. The amusement park-fantasy-frenzy of Las Vegas becomes a psychological landscape of spaces forgotten, people unseen and multiplying kilowatts filling what used to be the meadows of the Nevada desert. (Benjamin R Taylor)
A portrait of Northern Irish Republican political activist Bernadette Devlin. She became a street activist in the late 1960s and was heavily involved in the Battle of the Bogside in 1969.
While Benjamin obsessively dreams of escaping to South America, his mother plans his unwanted birthday party. But sometimes the best parties are the ones you don’t want.
In a rural village in southern Sweden night falls and on the way home, an unexpected noise makes someone uncomfortable. Is it the neighbour’s dog or a wolf? In the middle of the dark it is easy to confuse friendly things with potentially dangerous ones. The sound induces doubt and enigmatic images create an atmosphere that speaks, but does not explain itself. (Ágata Pinho)
First heartbeat, first slow dance, first kisses, first scares and one of the most important moments in a girl’s life, the moment you became a woman. Albertine -the alter ego of the director herself – is having a flashback during a train ride and goes back to being 11. On the train with her parents, she visits her grandmother in her country house for vacation celebrating her 67th birthday. The year is 1979, the year Apocalypse Now and The Tin Drum were out on cinemas. A more mature Delpy returns to a human and more common territory than her previous film The Countess. Playful and nostalgic, Skylab is a big family canvas given by the eyes of an exceptionally smart girl. (Nina Veligradi)
3D animation about a giant rabbit and three forest bullies.
Claire is a 25-year-old French painter, who paints cities. João is a 27-year-old Portuguese director, who wants to make a film about London. They are brought together by this common interest and end up deciding to make a film together.
We are acquainted with Klahr’s ingenious work of collage and subversion of traditional animation. In this music video made for Gabriel Kahane (album: Where are the Arms), we see the melancholic and pessimist sound pervade the image as we gain an admirable synthesis set. (Miguel Valverde) “On my visit to Lisbon and IndieLisboa a few years ago I bought a number of old magazines that had foto-romans. The protagonist of this film is a cut out of photographs used in these comic books.” (Lewis Klahr)
A film of artistic quotes that corrupts the system by misbehaving. The director begins with a quote from Bresson saying that a film should be built on white and changes it to yellow. We witness the preparation of a film and all the stages of the process. With this film, Godinho asserts his name in the national panorama. (Miguel Valverde)
It was originally intended to be modern Italy’s showcase urban project after WWII: the Don Bosco housing project on the southern edge of Rome. “Borgate” is Lotte Schreiber’s latest installment in her series of filmic examinations of architecture and (urban) space.
In the 9th century, in the Kells Abbey, 12 year-old Brendan lives quietly. He is hard at work with the other monks to fortify the abbey walls as protection against Viking raids. But he is called to a new life of adventure with the arrival of Brother Aidan, a celebrated master illuminator and keeper of an extraordinary, but unfinished book.
Marion and Pierre have a boring couple life until they meet Rémi, an old friend of Marion’s. In spite of looking like a loser, he reveals himself to be a cultivated person and a sex-symbol. Will (in this falsely naive but truly cruel comedy using the Nouvelle Vague codes) Marion and Pierre seize the chance to get out of their mediocre life? (Karim Shimsal)