A piece that brings historical and autobiographical memories of the author. In this first feature film Wahrmann incorporates with subtlety and fairness various filmic materials and layers of understanding that the film proposes. Andrew goes to live with his father after a separation. His brother disappeared during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The father lives alone and reclusive in his memoirs. His only company is a dog, Whale. The reunion between the two is difficult and distant. Hoping to get close to his father, André shows Super 8 films of his brother, filmed in the 70s. Visits to the Kremlin and hymns and Soviet choruses… This claustrophobic huis clos that revisits the ghosts of the past leads us to reflect on family memories and the fight against forgetfulness. In the role of the father, Carlos Reichenbach, icon of the new Brazilian cinema and recently deceased. (A. I. S.)
A rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin’s.
This film is about who I am and what I want. It’s NOT about who YOU are and what YOU want. You always think everything I make is about you but it’s not. It’s all about me‚Ķ..
Luke Haines is regularly decribed as one of the greatest English contempory songwriters, who launched Britpop and jumped ship as soon as it set sail. His wry commentaries respect few boundaries and his musical arrangements are uniquely suited to both the worlds of music and film. Art Will Save The World explores the work, legacy, struggles, battles and future of this perennial outsider of Britpop and the British music scene, with comments from Jarvis Cocker, David Peace and Arthur Matthews.
In Before Sunset (2004), Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunited in Paris nine years after they had met on a train to Vienna (Before Sunrise, 1995). Now, 18 years after their first encounter, we find them in Greece, struggling with the issues of any normal relationship, wandering through beautiful european landscapes.
Who is Bozo Texino? is a film on the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. The project is the result of a 20-year study of “monikers ” and is fabricated from hours of 16mm and super 8 film, most of it shot on freight trips across the w
About the war in Bosnia we remember above all names of cities like Sarajevo, Mostar, Gorazde, and a massacre in Srebrenica. But we don’t remember Visegrad. Because the western media never told about it, as if nothing happened there. Visegrad is a city wit
Their family life aside, Fernanda, Sylvia and Anna spend 16 hours a day working as waitresses in a restaurant, situated in the Lisbon docks. In the crisis-hit landscape they fight to keep their jobs, as men abandon work to go on strike.
Azulejos represents Lisbon before the earthquake of 1755, a poem by Pessoa, an air guitar by Mario Trovador, a bird that flies … a poetic look at Portugal today.
She wants to leave. He feels safe there. The barren landscape of the bolivian town of Uyuni is cut by a transmission of Peruvian radio. The tense situation of Latin America is in the violence of the wind.
A group of Latino teenagers in South Central Los Angeles, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock, and ride their tricked out skateboards. Avoiding the violence of their dange
Rasa is 20 years old and lives with her father in a small village in southern Sweden. Her family is of Muslim origin, from the Balkans. Having been fired from the factory she worked in, Rasa tries at all costs to remain in the village, despite the lack of job offers and the difficult circumstances. Gabriela Picher presents here her first feature film, a fiction that dives vividly and touching into social issues of our today, such as unemployment and immigrant integration. A film delivered by excellent actors and a story that captivates us right from the start. (C. C.)
With Jeff tells the story of Nydia, whose dull life is interrupted when she accepts a ride on a motorbike with Jeff.
The film follows a hypothetical proposition: a group of astronauts are circling the earth in a spacecraft, but they cannot return, as our planet has become uninhabitable. The cause of this remains open – all-out war, outbreak of a new disease beyond contr
As the camera looks out through a barred window and the clock strikes four in a Swiss city, the death of Yasser Arafat provides the starting point for a journey back in time.
A fiction around a violently common situation. A tension that settles from the first moment, not letting go of the spectator until the end. A wife and two children looking to change their fate. A film about complicity and solidarity that arise in a world from which they seem to have disappeared, when someone decides to change their life. So natural it could be happening next door… (P. C.)
Trevor Newandyke is as bad a stand-up comic as he is a good pyromaniac. If he had these qualities reversed, perhaps his day-to-day life wouldn’t be as difficult as it is. The choices of Joel Potrykus, who writed, produced, directed and edited here his first feature film, are incredibly smart. Ape is not what it seems to be at first sight: the humorous tone masks the aggressiveness of a protagonist who is also a complete anarchist. The house, the bills, his work, are only accessory problems. What really matters is to set it all on fire. One day, Trevor finds the devil selling apples on a street stall and the two of them make a pact. A strange apple in exchange for a joke and behold, a Pandora’s box of chaos is opened. (M. M.)
A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, the only problem he is that he is sentenced to death and supposed scheduled to be shot in ten minutes time. It seems quite obviously, that he will not get to the end of the story.
Based on an unfinished short story b
