Manfred and Jürgen, both in the mid 70s, are enjoying their free saturday.
Lying in the sun, working in the garden and struggling. On sunday Rosi, an old pal of them, comes around to join their SM-Bondage-Session. An ordinary weekend in Germany.)
Secção: Silvestre
“Ashes” shows a ghost town lost in time where only the recorded voice of Salazar still lives.)
“Bailu Dream” is the filmlike reconstruction of a Chinese town with French features. )
“Geliebt / Be loved” enters the realm of zoophilia.)
“Calamity who?” is a portrait of actress Christine Boisson through film heritage and her work by Isabelle Prim.)
“Cantata of Grief” echoes Roy Andersson’s films through the portrait of a suicide-assistance center.)
Rafael resides on his southern Spanish finca with his friends, a group of bohemian refuseniks, adventurers and leftover revolutionaries. They loaf about in style in the idyllic surroundings, playing around, drinking, chatting, reciting verse, posing and performing. Early on, Rafael’s son shows up with his German fiancée, who soon runs off with Julio after some four-handed piano playing. Henry is on a relentless quest for new business ventures and is prospecting for gold in a secret mine; Franziska prefers to ignore the need to earn money; Lucas reads book after book about economics and culture. And then there’s Domingo, who is supposed to relieve a certain Herr Müller of Düsseldorf of three million Euros. )
Jean-Charles Hue had already created a film out of a Gypsy community in France with “The Lord’s Ride” (shown at IndieLisboa 2011). With “Eat Your Bones”, his work becomes a landmark in French contemporary cinema. Through the shape of action and western films, a family’s future is now tangled between a new life and a vicious one, tied to the furious growls of a racing car that carries its dead and an unavoidable destiny with it.)
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God’s place? Director’s statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.)
Jan Soldat’s sharp editing shows us the automatic and tender gestures of pleasure in sexual intercourse.)
Ursula Meier builds a portrait of her young actor “Kacey Mottet Klein” through his work in her films.)
“Law and ORDER” shows the process and rules of sadomasochistic pleasure between two bodies.)
“Me and My Moulton” is the latest work from Oscar winner Torril Kove.)
A strange look on intimacy is reflected in the fictional portrait of a couple in “No Wolf has a House”.)
“Haftlange 4616”, Jan Soldat’s latest film, is his definite look on the sexual and power relations that hide in those cells — in other words, an alternate way to look at the current tensions of German history and, consequently, European society.)
“Our Lady of Hormones” goes into the surreal and fantastic realm of two actresses lost in a magical land where a strange, ugly object of pleasure rules.)
Jan Soldat’s different people and characters — or a family portrait of love.)
“The golden legend” takes us through the mind of a psychiatric patient and his fascination for certain historical figures.)