From juxtaposed images, always a bit apart, the film creates the festive mood of a touristic attraction in the island of Pentecôte, in Vanuatu. The French awarded video artist, ethnographically documents the imminent tension of the moment in which men are
A family is suffering from an overgrowing debt which led to a deep depression of the father. Two brothers feel that they can’t just stand on the sidelines while their family falls apart. Up until now they were helpless, but now with Yaki’s enlistment to the army, like every other 18-year-old Israeli boy, he is given a rifle. Shaul, the youngest, follows Dafna, a girl from a good, wealthy family, home after school. They seem to have the perfect plan. This rifle gives them the power they need to act and from helpless teenagers they can finally become men. But every plan has a flaw. (A. P.)
A collection of drawings by hand on paper. Memories of a place, a time. Memories that are mental drawings of real things that we remember happened and existed. A train passing, people, someone waving in the distance, houses. I always thought I had a perfect memory. I never did. (C. R.)
Inspired on the work of Branquinho da Fonseca, this is neuro-gothic remake of a ghost film, directed during the II World War. Forbidden by the Dictator because it portrays a little tyrant, a male vampire who terrified the inhabitants of a mountain region.
Robinson, the alter-ego of the director himself, returns with another excursion this time to the countryside of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. A mysterious hidden observer known to us by his previous searches in “London” and “Robinson in Space” sets off to do
A calm and secure voice reveals the story of two seemingly peaceful islands that serve as immense deposit: the first for unknown dead bodies, the second for all kinds of trash. They are our remains, our anonymous monuments, which society doesn’t know what to do with. (M. C.)
An old woman tells her life story. Most of the time it is not a happy story, but the way the puppet (that represents her) stands in the real world, shows how false expectations can be when one is young. This assertive and controlled documentary by Nylund shows us, however, that hope is the last to die. (M. V.)
Picture this: A amazingly sexy ex-beauty queen rapes her husband seven times. Does that sound believable? Errol Morris, with his new sci-fi documentary investigates the limits of male erection via his protagonist and media darling of the 70s Joyce McKinne
One of the birth fathers of New Queer Cinema of the 90s and a true uncompromising indie director, Araki with his 10th feature ‚ “Kaboom” ‚ proves he hasn’t mature one bit. Smith, an undeclared gay college freshman is attracted to his straight surfer roomm
Joe Berlinger tries to show both sides of a complex issue, when the music of Paul Simon shook the political environment under African skies. His historical album Graceland sold millions of copies and still gave way to divergent views on the limits of art, market and politics. On the 25th anniversary of its release, the artist returns to South Africa for a reunion concert that brings ghosts of the past and recalls the controversial context of the time, reflecting on the artist’s role in society.
In this film the adults behave like children and children like adults. The child is Lina, seven, daughter of Aya and Louis, who lives with her mother and Victor, her new companion. Lina holds in this film a haunting and revelatory presence. It had to be Doillon, the French filmmaker who better knows how to film childhood. Lina is, throughout the film, the more astute observer and commentator of her parents’ new desire for rapprochement. We are very close to the American comedies of Cukor and Lubitsch – a couple separates and later we are confronted with their new renaissance… Doillon exalts through a subtle and precise mise-en-scène the complexity of feeling in love and its fickleness. The characters are presented without masks and seek in a dizzying and perverse dance a superior fidelity – the debauchery – or perhaps the Unbearable Lightness of Being? (A. I. S.)
The truth is it’s all the Taliban’s fault. If he hadn’t kill three US soldiers in a sunny dune desert of Afghanistan, he wouldn’t be caught by the US military. He wouldn’t be transferred to a military base in Central Europe for interrogation. He wouldn’t
“The Non Educated Delinquents” (the film’s full title) are the children of a lesser God, the children destined to become the lower members of the working class, the future prisoners and the homeless of Glasgow. A suffocating and socially divided Glasgow o
Coni sings in a reggae band and is a single father to a three-year-old girl, captivating on screen. We feel very close tho this character that seems to be a contradiction between living the good life and the responsibility to ensure survival for both. Suddenly, everything changes. (A. P.)
When you don’t know, the truth is just what you decide it is. This is the motto for the story of the disappearance of a girl, who nobody believes will ever return. But Sam, with a hearing problem, has a visual memory which forces him to realise, that maybe he knows more about the disappearance than he previously thought. (M. Moz)
Omar and Emmanuel, a gay couple, are about to end their relationship, when Omar sets off to a business trip in New York asking his partner to move out before his return. A drama on how two men experience their break up separately. Two different men, in tw
“In the confined space of a bedroom, an old man lying on his bed has been waiting for me for thirty years. He has a secret and is dying to reveal it. I set my DV camera at the foot of the bed… Juggling with two tongues, French and Occitan, Jean Dougnac
The illustrious and mysterious Grigori Rasputin, a mystical monk, a prophetic man with a beard and long hair, confidant of the czar, adept of orgies and other debauchery, hated by the aristocrats. The fascinating life of Rasputin animated by a masterly stroke full of movement and shadows. (C. R.)