Juho Kuosmanen brings us the low temperature of the Finnish winter, not only through the frozen landscape where the action takes place but also by the contained way people push their dilemmas from one place to another. A non passionate film on the surviva
In a remote village up the mountain, a young girl is crying and little by little her tears invade the valley putting into danger the existence of the village. Is it worth to understand why she is crying or should the inhabitants face the ineluctable risin
In this animation, a choir of boys, a mass of unpredictable talent, goes on tour and gets lost in games and experiments typical of their age, when their conductor is distracted. She seems to lead an army of absolutely unpredictable tiny creatures, always singing. (A. P.)
Various machines. Mechanical and precise choreographies. Unusual places. Strange men. These are some of the themes that unite the trilogy of films about the work of Italian artist Yuri Ancarani. In Da Vinci he shows an operating room through a dizzying journey inside the human body and a mechanical ballet on its exterior. (M. V.)
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Simon, a young American recently graduated travels to Paris. Unable to cope with the feeling of loss, he becomes involved with a mysterious prostitute and his stay in the French capital extends among lies, blackmail and women. Simon Killer is Antonio Campos’, director of Afterschool, second feature film and builds up around Simon’s character, whom intrigues us with his stories and adventures. A very strong film that proves the talent of one of the most promising filmmakers of independent film today. (C. C.)
The visitors of a cave are faced with the marks of the passage of time, reflecting on these traces. The dark that lights automatically before men and women, goes back to its natural condition when they move away. A river that flows to the interior, demonstrating that the mark of every man is ephemeral. (P. C.)
To get to sweet and caring Olga’s house one must cross the sea, forests and escape big and scary animals. It’s an adventure, but all adventures are worth it just to meet her and her scissors. A black and modern fairy tale, lively and dazzlingly animated. (C. R.)
Game after game, he places himself into service of the team. As the singer of the FC Basel, he is jointly responsible for the atmosphere during the soccer game. He starts singing the songs, he sets the tempo, he animates and choreographs the fans.
A funny guy, a little crazy in the head, lives alone in the city. Seman is a little bit strange, but he’s no stranger to his neighbours. Seman is a single, middle-aged man in his slippers, in boxers and undershirt, cigarette in hand spends. Seman spends a
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
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.
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.)
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.)
Several animation techniques bring to life a daily chart of relationships, agreements and disagreements, misunderstandings, vague feelings, the rush for something to happen, self-esteem, sexual desire and conflicting emotions. An abstract poem in the form of film, with the color blue in the background. (C. R.)
Maria starts working as a maid in an aristocratic mansion. Life in the countryside and at the mansion is not much fun and when Erika, a close friend, narrates her failure to get her girlfriend pregnant, Maria decides to take advantage of the excessive attention given to her by the man in the house and thus democratise aristocracy. (M. Moz)