A boy and a squirrel caught by a fish are taken to meet the girl in the moon.
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Portrait of an ordinary woman who, at the moment of her death, discovers that she didn’t know how to live.
A love story. A boy and a girl. They set off on the adventure of a relationship. Nicole is 14 years old and is sure that something important will soon happen in her life. She meets 14 year old Christopher, one of the neighborhood’s celebrities. They become a couple. Her parents’ apartment is available as a stage on which Nicole and Christopher play husband and wife. This story takes place during a time in the young peoples’ lives in which everything seems possible; they hang around public places as if they were movie stars expecting autograph hunters at any minute. At the same time, a job, their own bank accounts, and adult life is waiting. Or maybe it isn’t. Time is running out.
At the end of winter in the South of Chile, an old couple awaits the visit of her daughter and grandson. It rains sometimes, and then the sun comes up. During the day they work. He clears a stream and she makes cheeses to sell in the nearby highway. At night they sit by the fire and hear the rain beginning to fall again.
Set in 1984, Kuantan, at a time where thousands of Vietnamese refugees came to our east coast shore. A film about Chinese diasporas. How centuries of wars and famines had made eating a ritual.
In an inverted world, where art oscillates between a political decoration and a conversation between illuminated people, someone in the antipodes of art attempts to undo the mirage and, before ghosts, in the centre of the world, thinks of the noise that could save him.
This film shows over a period of six years the story of a young woman who came to Singapore to work as a house keeper leaving her husband and one-year baby in her country. It describes her daily hardships and difficulties through her own eyes…
Exploring the life of modern day nomad, Jim Lee, this documentary follows his path as he travels across the ever changing face of Britain, his life in constant flux. The film was created entirely from long forgotten super-8 footage recovered from around the UK. Set to a haunting soundtrack by the directors, Lost & Found tells the honest and unique story of a man forgotten by society.
The title of the film identifies precisely but abstractly a location in Africa. We discover a site that is to all appearences an archeological ruin, but the images reveal it to be the work of two labourers.
Aaron Levy is an art curator in Philadelphia, USA. He is totally dependent on technology. In the film he reflects his own relationship with machines and brings us in a journey through memory and contemporary sensibility. The film is part of a series of short documentaries named Ballad of technological dependency. It is based in duet improvisations, no crew.
Portraits of pre-adolescents struggling with their changing bodies.
Love Conquers All tells a love story between a girl from a small town with a guy with unknown background. The girl, Ah Ping, left her hometown. She meets John and they soon fall in love. John slowly reveals that he actually worked for a gangster. The story takes a turn when John tells Ah Ping how a pimp worked to lure a girl into prostitution. We soon realize that John is a pimp, but helplessly seeing Ah Ping being lured into it, even when she knows about his tricks.
An elegy to a friend, Andrea Wolf, with whom Steyerl made a feminist martial arts film when she was 17. Andrea joined the Kurdish guerrilla and was arrested and shot in 1998 as a suspected terrorist.
The first images made by men represented animals. It may be that an image reproduces an endured pain. That it conquers power. The skin of the killed animals however will soon serve as canvas. Libya,1980. We are going south. A private expedition, a family trip, the director’s mother films on S-8, his brother takes photographs. Two river-beds in the desert of the Sahara, where prehistoric paintings and engravings can be found on the rocky banks. Four years later, his brother commits suicide. Fourteen years later a film gets formed out of the remembrance, out of those pictures, out of text and words, found or remembered, imprinted.
Bittersweet comedy about the impossible bus journey of an old Kurdish musician who travels with his sons to Iraq to give the concert of his life.
A new home, a new town, a week in a family’s life. Frieder renovates the house, Charlotte is looking forward to her mother’s holidays ‚ but Nina suddenly departs leaving her husband and her daughter without a message. Following a spontaneous impulse, she joins her brother at their parents‚Äò summer cottage. To her disappointment he is not alone but with his girlfriend. Nina eludes again and sneaks into a hotel. The ambience of the hotel’s jubilee party and a strange meeting confuses her even more. Coming back home after days, Nina tries to go back to normal but has to realize that her escape brought along consequences.
Cova da Moura, Arrentela and Porto Salvo. The black rap from the surrounding area of Lisbon creates a circle around the city itself. It points a finger at racism, police violence and poverty. The life of black people. Hip Hop is intervention. I don’t want anyone dancing, I want them thinking, says Jorginho, one of the eight interviewed rappers.This documentary listens to the words, frees the voice.
A lonely child plays with his small ball against a huge wall. The rhythm that he produces takes him away from his loneliness. Suddenly, a deaf rhythm emerges in constant displacement and perturbs the child. The child searches and experiments to understand from where come these echoes…