2011-2020

  • Manfred Kirchheimer – Canners (2015)

    2011-2020DocumentaryManfred KirchheimerUSA

    Quote:
    Manfred Kirchheimer’s deeply humane Canners takes to the streets in an ode to the men and women who earn their daily bread by diligently collecting New York City’s bottles and cans.

    He talks to them about their struggles, their families, and their dreams, never straying too far from his work’s abiding subject, survival in the city.

    This lyrical documentary, along with his award-winning previous films (Stations of the Elevated (1981), We Were So Beloved (1985), Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2004), among many others) makes a superb addition to a body of work fifty years in the making, defined by Whitmanesque generosity and grandeur.Read More »

  • Louise Traon – Les Gants blancs AKA The White Gloves (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryFranceLouise Traon

    Louise Traon never films Manoel De Oliveira directly. Instead, she chooses to avoid him, skirt round him, skim past him and keep her distance, yet all the while drawing close to the art of cinema itself, homing in on its very essence. Her film tells the story of a girl who grew up with the images of an old gentleman, and who now wants to show her own images. This touching self-portrait gives insight into a man who appears to have lived many lives, showing his work through a remarkable link with time.Read More »

  • Sandra Wollner – Das unmögliche Bild AKA The Impossible Picture (2016)

    2011-2020AustriaDramaSandra Wollner

    With Wollner’s latest film, The Trouble with Being Born, having generated a lot of interest and controversy (just last week, it was dropped from the Melbourne International Film Festival program after a newspaper article denounced it as dangerous), here’s her little-seen debut feature, about a thirteen-year-old girl in 1950s Vienna documenting her family and herself with a handheld video camera.Read More »

  • Barbara Albert – Die Lebenden AKA The Dead and The Living (2012)

    2011-2020AustriaBarbara AlbertDrama

    The film deals with the story of my grandfather, who was an SS officer. He died in 1999, when I was 29 – and I really loved him… Barbara AlbertRead More »

  • Francisco Márquez – Un crimen común (2020)

    2011-2020ArgentinaDramaFrancisco MárquezThriller

    Cecilia is an academic teacher who lives alone with her son Juan, somewhere in Buenos Aires. One stormy night she wakes up scared by the knocks she hears at the door. She sees that it is Kevin, son of Nebe, the woman who helps her around the house. Cecilia, terrified, does not open, and hides in the dark, while she listens outside to the sirens of patrol vehicles. The next day, she learns from the news that the neighborhood where Nebe and Kevin live has mobilized to search for the young man. Neighbors accuse the Gendarmerie of being responsible for his disappearance, until he finally appears drowned in a river. The guilt that Cecilia feels and her inability to confess that the young man was knocking on the door of her house that night becomes too much for her. Kevin’s “ghost” starts haunting her and following her all around.Read More »

  • Vincent Carelli & Tatiana Almeida & Ernesto de Carvalho – Martírio (2016)

    2011-2020BrazilDocumentaryErnesto de CarvalhoTatiana AlmeidaVincent Carelli

    Synopsis:
    The great reclaiming march for the sacred Guarani Kaiowá territories through Vincent Carelli’s filming, who recorded the birthplace of the movement in the 1980s. Twenty years later, touched by the successive massacres reports, Carelli searches the origins of this genocide, a conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guarani Kaiowá against the powerful apparatus of agribusiness.Read More »

  • Dietrich Brüggemann – Drei Zimmer/Küche/Bad (2012)

    2011-2020Dietrich BrüggemannDramaGermany

    Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The search is never-ending, and so they repeatedly find themselves at a ritual gathering: someone moving. Boxes are shifted from one side of Berlin to the other, or the length and breadth of Germany, from one abode to the next as one life is exchanged for another. In 3 ZIMMER/KÜCHE/BAD, director Dietrich Brüggemann portrays existences in which relationships, social networks and backdrops are in a constant state of flux; where best friends are the only, and therefore the most valuable constant. Humorous sketches of the self-conception of a generation for whom moving has become the symbol of a life on the go.Read More »

  • Dietrich Brüggemann – Heil (2015)

    2011-2020ComedyDietrich BrüggemannGermany

    The African-German writer Sebastian Klein is one of the most famous Author of Germany. To promote his latest book, he is on reading-tour through Germany and also visits the little city of Prittwitz. But there, the local Neo-Nazis give him a hit on his head and Sebastian looses his memories. Instead he is parroting everything other people tell him. Sven, the political leader of a modern National Socialist Party, recognizing the opportunity and uses Sebastian as a promotion speaker against integration. When Sebastians highly pregnant girlfriend Nina is seeing him on TV, she is shocked and starts to chase him with the policeman Sascha in order to safe him from the Neo Nazis.Read More »

  • Spike Jonze – Beastie Boys Story (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryPerformanceSpike JonzeUSA

    Here’s a little story they’re about to tell… Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.Read More »

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