From Spanish, querencia refers to desire, wanting, it is the place you love. Also in Brazil it is the place where cattle were raised or have the habit of grazing. It is the place where one finds their strength – a man, the bull – where one feels at home. Marcelo is a cowboy who sees his life overshadowed by a dark cloud when a violent assault occurs on the farm where he works. Sinking down, he is forced to rethink his life. But here lies also an opportunity to pursue a dream: to be a rodeo narrator. And so a new desire is drawn, a new place where one feels at home, next to his bulls, again strong and sane. Helvécio Marins weaves a narrative based on reality – his non-actors are transported to this territory and carry with them all the experience and feelings giving a bull’s strength to this film. Meanwhile the animals look firmly at us like announcing: dark times are coming to Brazil, but the strength will come and go in a wave, it will not abandon us. (M.M.)
Phillip, a 13-year-old school boy, disappeared without a trace for a week. When he reappears, his mother is confronted with questions that lead to a changed view of her life. Winner of Best Director award at Berlinale.
It’s hot, the streets are oddly empty, palms are suffering and shotguns crying. Joshua wants to die but he doesn’t want to leave his brother Mael alone. Meanwhile he meets with a gang: the Icebergs.
Isra and Cheíto are two Roma brothers: Isra was sent to prison for drug dealing and Cheíto signed up for the Marines. When one is released from prison the other returns from a long mission, and it is time for a family reunion.
The sea. Some snacks. Fire.
A Buddhist elephant, a socially media addicted hen, and a tree trunk afraid of insects enter a subway carriage.
The traffic is chaotic and there is only one force that controls it: the yellow lines that separates the tracks.
Radu Jude directs a provocative, didactic, inventive and highly intelligent investigation into Romania’s participation in the ethnic cleansing of the Third Reich during the 1941 Odessa massacre on the Eastern Front.
Experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack’s first feature is an animistic and pop-shaped postcard of a lost society, where everything merges and relates. Recurring motifs on fabrics and (flying) carpets transport us to globalization’s grand bazaar.
This is a Projection (and this was a synopsis).
My neighbour committed suicide. I played football with him and also ping-pong. In a room, a boy reminds himself his dead friend.
In a gym, a dark prince prepares his disciples for an attack.
Remy withdraws in his parents’ empty house, in the snow, to live simply. But peace does not last.
Sophia Antipolis is a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman.
An elegant woman gives a lift to a security guard on the run.
Luke Fowler’s mother was absent on the day he filmed her house office and the filled up shoeboxes and filing cabinets containing index reading cards.
A parody of warlike imagery from first person shooter games like ‘DOOM’ spawning with romanticism in images of a computer generated, “weerasethakulian” tiger.
In the 1950’s, while Europeans were leaving Africa, Soviet Union made its big entrance.
