A young, too young, prisoner responds that he wants meat and a coke for his last supper. But the film’s title is the only question that really haunts his soul.
Secção: Silvestre
This 360º video installation, commissioned by the Nagano Art Museum, a moving painting, breaking or enhancing the link between painting and film, with sublime images reveling in the profusion of details.
Patiño films Tokyo at night as if it were something out of a dream, under the signs of solitude and futurism. The hypnotic quality of the images, where the city lights lull us, is enhanced by the poetry of the narration, like a book of aphorisms.
Visual artist Lieselott Beschorner prefers to be alone, living in the artistic universe that she never stops creating. But, still, she allows herself to be filmed, including the moments when drawings sprout from her hands in seconds. Domineering and fun, she has the last word.
A loose adaptation of the eponymous book by Didier Eribon, Jean-Gabriel Périot draws on archival wealth to tell a story — collective and intimate, political and personal — of the French working class since the 1950s. The testimonies of workers, men and women, shape a story that is not always at your fingertips.
Those who rebel against authority figures disobey. This film echoes “Cordobazo” — a popular rebellion in Cordoba against the Argentine military dictatorship in 1969 — through the story of Alicia, a trolleybus driver who joins an insurrection against an oppressive regime.
Joey Bernstein, an old friend of the narrator, has a single obsession: finding traces of Punctured Sky, an old computer game whose mere mention seems to have disappeared from the Internet. Thus begins an investigation that tests the limits of digital memory.
The triforium is an interior, but usually open, gallery leading into the nave of a church. In this film, we walk, accompanied by the music of Laurence Crane, through the triforium of London’s Westminster Abbey, which has been hidden from human sight for 700 years.
Nosferasta is a film co-written by and starring Rastafarian artist and musician Oba, which imagines a very particular origin story and reckoning with colonialism. We follow Oba from the time he was bitten by the vampire Christopher Columbus in 1492 to his current post-vampiric existence.
How to re-imagine a tragedy from the first decade of the 2000s? That’s the spark that illuminates this film. Ten years after the apparent suicide of a teenager, the history of this loss is rethought, still affecting the present, with the promise of what this girl’s future could have been. In a story that triangulates Haiti, Canada and the United States, Tessa returns to the world through the power of cinema.
When you’re a student and you live far from your parents, friends are family. Friends study together, eat together, share everything and have no secrets, almost believing it will always be that way. But life has other plans, and the University of Bangui, in the Central African Republic, is just a synecdoche for a weary country.
Three girls from Vienna try to balance a fine line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. Two of them are fascinated by something that is foreign to them. One is torn between the culture practiced at home and the one practiced in the rest of her world. Adding to this explosive mix a viral video and an encounter with two overly patriotic young men, things cannot but start to go sideways. But isn’t youth the time to test the limits?
It could be the beginning of a horror movie. A couple, Alain and Marie, begin the film by explaining that they cannot explain what is happening to them. Everyone will think they’re crazy. That’s how a horror movie starts, right? The crux of the matter may lie in the enigmatic tunnel that exists in the cellar of their new home. But maybe it’s not a horror movie. It’s hard to explain.
A semi-autobiographical work by Václav Kadrnka and the third film in his trilogy about the “Absence of a Loved One”. The narrative involves a family whose father suffers a cardiovascular accident and is left in a coma, in a limbo between life and death. Mother and son try to find a way, against the doctors’ lack of hope, to bring him back to life.
A documentary that covers the work of Soviet film crews in Africa, from 1960 to 1990, identifying and undermining their perspective, or their bluff, when it comes to the recurring themes and motifs of propaganda associated with this continent.
The second part of a portrait of the director as a young woman, built from autobiographical and metatextual brushstrokes, such as the inclusion of the family duo Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton. After a tragic occurrence, Julie (Swinton Byrne) rechannels her heartbreak into her art, which has also been transformed into a personal fantasy as a graduation film. And as everything progresses, she grows.
Sara Cwynar is a multifaceted contemporary artist and Glass Life is a journey through her image archive that becomes a commentary on consumption and our visual culture, in a frenzy of artworks, food photographs and emojis.
We are in the Italian coastal resort of Rimini, it’s winter and tourists are here because they managed to book a cheap room. Cheering up the ranks of female senior fans is Ritchie Bravo, a past-his-prime lounge singer with an alcohol problem. Everything goes downhill when his mother dies, his dementia-suffering father is alone, and Ritchie’s grown-up daughter demands a sum of money to make up for his abandonment.