In a near future we will be able to seek refuge in memory implants that will allow us to live in a vintage fictional world. Living in this fake reality recreated with old-fashioned images a mother has decided to erase the death of her daughter. But the child is still there somewhere, hiding in some lost spaces of her memory. (Karim Shimsal)
In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.
A portrait of Aldina Duarte, a “fado” singer out of conviction and love. The film profiles her, unveiling her personality, traveling with her on a journey across her city, Lisbon, and her favorite places. Aldina exposes herself with the straightforwardness and a certain spice full of prudishness so identifying to her.
Dima Dubson followed his friend Adam Green for two years with access to all aspects of the multi-faceted artist’s extraordinary life, both public and private. Framed by Green’s European tour, the film’s episodic narrative takes us back and forth in time. A raw candid exploration of art, fame, fandom, drugs, love, romantic dysfunction, privacy and honesty.
Cloudless sky. Vehicles on the grid. Blas, Ivan and Hector take their places. This is about to start! Ready, steady…
“Alicia in the Land” follows a thirteen-year-old girl from the Quechua tribe as she makes a 180 km journey on foot. From her village in southern Bolivia, Alicia sets off in search of work in northern Chile, in the tourist town of San Pedro de Atacama. Close-ups, filmed with a hand-held camera, with only the girl’s breathing and the repetitive thud of her footsteps on the soundtrack, long lateral pans in which the horizontal lines of the plains interact and combine with the geometry of Alicia’s silhouette; all underscore the effort involved in such a journey.
Six-year-old Andong is obsessed, and nothing, not even his mother’s constant nagging can help curve his persistent infatuation. So it didn’t come out as a surprise to anyone, when, one fateful day, the precocious little boy went into a mad frenzy over the prospect of landing the, much-coveted, love-of-his-life.
At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs ‚ an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions. Sigrídur Níelsdóttir is her name. A cinematic tribute to her boundless creativity, created by three musicians and artists whom she inspired.
Sabina leaves Switzerland and her mother to go to Azerbaijan and be with her father and her sister. Emotionaly charged she is trying to balance herself between two worlds, two cities, two cultures, two identities. She is trying to bring things together, to form herself and also deconstruct the image of father-hero. The Azerbaijani culture and its strick tradition change the way she knows things work. What is beautiful in Switzerland is slutty in Azerbaijan yet she is willing to stay. An emotional journey into a separated family through the eyes of a 17 years old girl and through the lens of Eileen Hofer, refusing to decide between fiction and documentary, creates a honest cross-cultural portait of life, self-discovery and abandonment gaining two siters Sabina and Narmina. (Nina Veligradi)
A building-elephant escapes from a city built with animal bricks.
A skinny man, an ordinary man, wakes up and thinks: “It has to be today!”. It turns out that this skinny man has something very important to do, although a few tasks and a few domestic hazards on his way won’t let him to successfully accomplish his goal throughout a day that seems to last an entire life.
Wandering through moving images taken with a tourist camera juxtaposed with classic movies, From New York with Love is an essay on a foreigner’s evolving relation with his host country. (André Valentim Almeida)
East of Democratic Republic of Congo. In the Kivu war-devastated region a woman struggle to comfort and help the victims of a never-ending conflict that has claimed so far 4 to 4.5 million lives. Rape is commonly used as a way to destroy the communities, religions strive back, armies and militias rule. But yet, there is hope. There must be. (Karim Shimsal)
Maya recounts an incident from her childhood and finally in the ‘last act’ gathers courage to tell her father that he was wrong. The film is based on a real life incident involving young boy beaten to death by residents.
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12… explosões em Viena.12 … explosions in Vienna.
Future’s Market opens with a drawing of the sky with shiny dots that resemble the planets and then a voice over describing how the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos invented the art of memory that was used for centuries by philosophers, poets and architects. A meditation of dreams and desires that ultimately turn into a product. A real estate salesperson delivers to the potential investors the virtualization of an urban space even with furniture, a space of their thoughts keeping in mind primarily the profit. The quality of hopes, ideas and dreams as spiritual values have been replaced by material ones reminding us that we forgot how to look at people and things. A brilliantly composed documentary, with extraordinary framing of the art of Michelangelo and post-modern compositions of open spaces. (Nina Veligradi)
Ginjas experiments with vowels and struggles with the echo effect, that always returns a distorted version of the sound. Metaphors are explored, as well as variants of typographic plays, and the notion of upper and lowercase.
An accidental encounter between a person who wait and other than flees.