A young prostitute tends to his father, a fallen-from grace artisan. The two men share a house and its permanent silence. No effort from the son is ever enough to please his bitter, disabled father, but neither is escape possible when there is such strong dependency. (M. Moz)
What do we remember when we think about our last teenage summers? Friends, parents, and often grandparents, and their unconditional love. A Piece of Summer is a present moment which has already become a future memory for a grandson and his days with his
An hilarious comedy. Prepared for a long trip between Europe and Asia, a cyclist sees his bike being destroyed by a clumsy character. His generosity will delay him more than he expected. Still a student at La Fémis, Cailley directs solidly his actors thro
As the hours go by, the fear of what might happen to two teenagers left alone on a road lost in the middle of nowhere grows. The new voices of Recife blow winds of change in the panorama of Brazilian film, as is confirmed in They’ll Come Back. Cris and her older brother were abandoned on the roadside and expect a solution. When her brother gets tired and decides to go looking for help, Cris is on her own and night is coming. In anticipation of several possible outcomes, all of them distressing, the judgments gather. A script that revolves on expectations, the standards and certainties of the spectator ‚ and that only delivers the story as its reception promises to be effective ‚ along with an unblemished photography. (M. M.)
A man and a boy arrive at a motel where they are received by a woman of good intentions. A terrible revelation is pronounced in the swimming pool. But not everything is true and even what we see can be deceitful. A film on the act of distinguishing the tr
Stella spends her days at home, telling herself stories. We see her loudly discussing theories or singing in front of a mirror. It seems a one division house, and the window shows a distant Manhattan. Exalting boredom, there appears a French hero who need
Veronika Samartseva made a real intimate film. A journey to the interior world of a girl which makes us all traveling inside ourselves. A delicate animation which explodes in color from time to time, inhabited by an unexpected visitor, but also liberator.
An unfinished Italy might be a metaphor of the state of the world. The architecture of the uncomplete makes us questioning the future. Through powerful images, Felici finds a source of creativity in a future museum of the unfinished. Without demagogy, “Un
Pilão Arcado was a Brazilian city. Dona Pequenita never left the place where she was born. From a past submerged by the waters of the dam what remains are words, songs, ruins loaded with memories. (M. C.)
An animation in the improbable set of a care home. A film about old age, solitude, yearning and desire. Everything mixed in a very moving way. Evelyn Verschoore designs new visual solutions all the way, using the sound and the image and she builds a humor
A son and a mother in a phase of non communicability, win two tickets for a Spa. The water is a metaphor for introversion and isolation: to where you scream, from where you emerge. With a strong narrative intention, reveled by a rigorous sense of camera a
Jean is an Haitian middle age professor desperately looking for work in the Dominican Republic and for a reason to live. When he looses hope he also looses himself in the island that surrounds him. An outstanding film by its extraordinary simplicity and t
New York is invaded by a digital monster that transforms all the elements around him into pixels. The city is changing its aspect little by little. Amazing and full of references to video games, this animation film surprises us with its creativity. (M.C.)
The last man on earth is black. His name is Léopold and he lives in France. He tries to survive in a society that has lost the meaning of generosity. The only possibility to escape lies out there, high on a building or high on the branches of a tree. But
Seven young adults friends spent a week of August in the suburbs of Paris where they grew up. Some of them because they are visiting their families, the others because they still live there. Director of the awarded Primrose Hill” (IndieLisboa 2008), Mik
“Sex is a thing inside me, moving in and out like a piston” says Marina, a 23 year-old girl living with her architect father, hanging out with her sexually advanced friend Bella, listening to Alan Vega’s Suicide and watching Sir David Attenborough’s natur
Yoli lives with his mother, and time passes as if life was getting slower in an exasperating backwardness. She sells ashtrays but we only see her smoking by the end expecting a possible encounter. When she releases the smoke, a new kind of respiration ove
A man with a fish face walks in an amusement park, spreading random bubbles of misfortune on people. The cruelty and perversion are everywhere and the only ones who escape are the harmless rabbits. (M. C.)