Western found footage, manipulated to the point of being unable to convey a plot: an armed robbery is prevented through the camera, which brings one figure into a grotesque clonfict. The armed confrontation gets stuck in a pounding staccato, while the public remains disinformed.)
Using texts and landscapes belonging to Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and to a life of work dedicated to landscape architecture, João Mário Grilo composes this poetic documentary about the evocative power of nature and man.
Documentary filmmaker and Jean Rouch collaborator Philippe Costantini goes inside the House of Santo António to film a “House of Mothers”: a social institution destined for young single mothers to raise their children and hope for a second chance in their troubled lives.)
After “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” (2011) and the history of the Black Panther Party through archival footage of Swedish television, Göran Olsson edits together a history of racism and European colonialism (narrated by Lauryn Hill) based on the book by Frantz Fanon.)
A good family girl has to know her manners, which includes performing a good fellatio, in Bien sur tout rapports.
José Vieira was born in Portugal but went to live in France when still a child. The theme of Portuguese emigration is at the core of his cinema. His most recent film takes the shape of a road movie to the country of his childhood.
The title is already a hint of what’s to come: sensual, almost childish, seemingly chaotic events to the tones of a lively mounted sound collage of nonsensical babble, circus melodies and other musical sources. Peter Millard delivers a provoking anti-statement to the staid animated cartoon.)
Bjorn Mellus us seen as a singing, craving smurf in the Californian desert. The ironic video plays with juxtaposing transatlantic cultural influences – the European smurf in contrast with elements from a song of American pop star Elvis Presley. Are you lonesome tonight?)
Havana is occupied by foreign forces and on the edge of civil war, Lazaro, a kid from the slums, walks us through his streets and reveals the chaos that has taken over the capital.)
In 2002, Georges Mondésir dies after an encounter with the police. He’s crazy, or just simple-minded. When face to face with the police, Mondésir is the Other. It’s the underlying ancestral struggle between this duo that interests Alice Colomer-Kang.)
“Komorebitachi” looks at the rituals of life and their secret movement.)
Life goes on after a father’s death – a widow carries on with her work while her daughters take care of the funeral.)
For the 30th anniversary of Fitzcarraldo the German Goethe Institute advertises an open call for a short film tribute project. Video artist Christoph Schwarz therefore develops a grotesque white trash version of Herzog’s Amazon classic on the Danube which soon gets out of control.)
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.)
While the Iraq war continues, a day’s sightseeing and the feature of a German hotel provoke a stream of thoughts about events large and small.)
“Mapalé” is an experimental look on intimacy in a landscape touched by nature and fantasy.)
A series of cinematic miniatures about the essence of music and the process of its reception. Music is first excreted, and then received. Sausage or spherical. The resulting sound is not the actual sound of the instruments shown, but the perceived timbre of abstract music representation.)
Roman Polanski’s second feature, with Catherine Deneuve. Shot in London.)