Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her.
Secção: Observatório
16-year-old Junie finds herself in the same class as her cousin Mathias, who introduces her to his friends. All the boys want to date Junie, and she chooses the quietest among them, Otto Clèves. But soon after, she encounters the great love of her life in her Italian teacher, Nemours. The passion that burns between them is doomed. A contemporary adaptation of Madame de La Fayette’s novel, “The Princess of Clèves”, transferring the action from the court of Henry II to modern day Paris.
When Stacey Ross unexpectedly died last year, her friends asked filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to complete a project she had just begun. The result is “Four Questions For a Rabbi”, a film that touches upon issues of identity, persecution and mortality.
This is the third in the DOG series. In this episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain the affection he so richly deserves. Typically, the results never turn out the way he planned.
Fourteen-year-old Hayat, no longer a child but not yet a woman, lives with her father and grandfather, who suffers from asthma, in Istanbul. Her father works as a fisherman but makes most of his money through shady dealings. He supplies the big ships that are waiting to pass through the strait with alcohol, women and other goods. Even more corrosive than this family’s poverty is the callousness and stifling indifference the main characters display toward themselves and above all toward Hayat.
In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is asleep, there’s one man who isn’t sleeping.
That man is called Giulio Andreotti. Calm, ambiguous, inscrutable, Andreotti is synonym of power in Italy for over four decades. At the beginning of the 90’s, without arrogance or humility, he advances relentlessly towards his seventh mandate as Prime Minister. Nearing seventy, he is a gerontocrat who fears nobody and doesn’t know what fear is. His contentment is power, with which he lives in symbiosis. A power which he likes, immovable and immutable. Until the strongest counter power in the country, the Mafia, decides to declare war against him.
“Words shape our impressions and form our history. In ‚ÄòScene Shifts, in six movements’ a journey through historical layers of various locations on several continents unfolds. However, it is primarily an intellectual journey. The locations, images, texts and music hold references to a long history of cross-cultural misinterpretations.” (Jani Ruscica)
An ancestral city. Through its botanical garden and canals we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday’s breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations.
Having left on a long journey across the desert, Moussa suddenly shows up in his village again. He clearly never reached his destination. Completely transformed by his ordeal, he is now apathetic and indifferent to everything around him. But his creditors, who leant him the money for his journey, are growing impatient.
Tedium breeds its own reverie. Here becomes like there becomes like could be anywhere. This forms a coincidence with the generic: Repetitions erode sense of place and make buildings seem less
substantial. The logic of these displacements causes things to come adrift. Pathetic and momentarily cathartic.
It’s hard to believe that “False Aging” clocks in at under 15 minutes, given how powerfully it evokes passing decades punctuated by muffled eruptions of longing and regret. Klahr’s collaged reveries cast deeper shadows and offer little magical protection from death and disappointment.(Kristin M. Jones)
Radiotehnika is a film about the last units in a radio factory in Riga. It is also a film about a woman engineer who was working there years ago. She tells about that time, the Soviet Time and its social organisation with the factory. I was intrigued by her career and how, as a woman, she chose to study engineering.” (Eleonore de Montesquiou)
“Oblivion” takes us to the forgotten city of Lima, to a forgotten people, the Peruvians and – like most countries in Latin America – the forgotten land of Peru.
My research started from a circumstance or curiosity. A process or a study to find the intangibility of an object that is always in motion, that never stops, in no life, at no time. We cannot talk about it, only about what it does. About its effects (…). (Leonor Noivo)
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past ‚ one consumed by fear and desire – the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression. Love is finally, an entrancement of legs, a union of bellies, a brief tremor of arteries, a confusion of mouths, a battle of veins, a rolling of thighs, whoever says otherwise is a beast. Gregório de Mattos (séc. XVII) (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt)
Sook Chen quit her job. She decided to go to Peru. Ma could not understand why. In fact, he could never understand what Sook Chen want.
The unexpected music improvisers from Music for one Apartment and 6 Drummers strike again. This time on a retirement home for old people. A Xmas carol? (Possidónio Cachapa)
A young Corean man walks in the streets of Busan filled with rage and will to kill. His never-ending inner speech of hate seems directed to each and every person he crosses in the streets or the metro. However, as he is constantly facing his own reflection we come to doubt the limit between hating and self-hating, between reality and phobic distortion of one’s personality. (Karim Shimsal)