Avid cigar smoker and master of the Hong Kong crime film, Johnnie To is the subject of “Johnnie Got His Gun!”. Shot over three years, this documentary follows Johnnie To as he visits various film festivals, recording his views on his brilliant and now in
An independent little cloud finally finds a use for all the rain that he’s been carrying around. But even with the best of intentions, strange things can happen…
In a neighborhood constantly under construction, Irene, a grandmother who lives with her granddaughters, gets to know a neighbor through the window that the building demolished wouldn’t let her see before. He makes golden mesh, a delicate work in the midst of so much destruction. By observing his daily activities, Irene approaches him without his knowledge. Golden Mesh is a beautiful mosaic of a narrative of enveloping tenderness. (R. F.)
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
The father figure is essential in every family, not in terms of personification or biology but in terms of authority or law. Sheryl, a single mother is lifting on her own the weight of responsibility of the growing up of her two sons. Marc (16) her eldest
With no place to call home, 19-year-old Elena takes a job as a live-in aide. She finds herself thrust into the middle of a family in crisis: all the things that go on between a father, grandmother, mother, and cat. Eventually, Elena strikes something of a balance though… That is, until the prodigal son returns home. Placing fictional characters alongside real people, ‚ÄòExit Elena’ is shot through with all the rough edges inherent to family life and home movie form ‚ in short, it’s a dark comedy.
In a world without adults, three brothers try, each in their own way, to find their own space. When the rabbit doesn’t return, new calculations have to be made, even when the pretty girl prefers music to science. In a very contrasted black and white, the director explores the conquest of space in an accurate and intelligent narrative. (M. V.)
Can a lie get so big that turns into suicide? Can the individual’s perception of reality be so distant from the external world? Can pessimism about future prospects drive you to end your life? All these are questions our main heroine ‚ Martha ‚ is inevita
There are those who cry out for their rights and others who whisper to society how things should be. The usual forms of protest are not effective ‚ it is necessary to find another way. A couple living an ordinary day has a desire to rebel. Posters and slo
A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.
One spring morning animals wake-up from winter sleep and discover that forest has been turned into the city. Hedgehog has a brilliant idea how they all could survive in the big city. By helping people they could earn money! But what does it take? Hedgehogs decide to get back forest and their real home…
There are a lot of ways for a love story to start and Leonard’s and Mary’s started the hardest and the simplest way possible. Right from the beginning they build up a relationship by building a birdhouse‚Ķ it took them a while but they got around to dinner
A ballet of dead insects invades the city of Helsinki and the Baltic. Flies, bees, spiders and butterflies form a morbid and yet moving tapestry. The beauty of the film consists in mastering a combination of digital imaging, X-ray scans and stop motion sh
Fall is a film about boredom and places that look all the same, repeated and indistinct. Space deteriorates and the destruction of belongings brings a sense of relief, a catharsis.
With a restless spirit, heavy legs, a young man wanders in Lisbon, obsessed by the increasingly blurred image of a woman. Fighting against the loss of his memory, he wanders between reality and dreams.
The film describes a journey of initiation full of obstacles. The musical plot is solid and original, full of little details. The voice is dislocated from the mouth, the images are juxtaposed, the sounds of the fields and the sublime landscape opposing
Three parallel lives struggling for self-survival. Lwei, a suicidal and wannabe writer, unable to cope with his role as a father is constantly fighting with himself for better and for more. Evelyn, a transsexual, in a never-ending search for sexual identi
The journey of a father seeking medical help for his child introduces us in a world where animals and plants have a spiritual meaning. Neither a fiction nor a documentary, this film reveals us the secret and delicate bonds that tie together humanity and n