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Shot in murky black and white, Hong’s film traverses an open-air spectrum of repeating nuances, locations, and dialogue in charming ways. The small groups of characters, including mildly famous film director Sungjoon (Yu Jun-sang), who’s visiting an old friend in Seoul, graze on the coincidences and human fallibilities defining their overlapping mental quirks. Together, they’re like lost sheep roaming the urban academic landscape for a shepherd.Read More »
2011-2020
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Sang-soo Hong – Book chon bang hyang AKA The Day He Arrives (2011)
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Pablo Llorca – Días color naranja (2016)
2011-2020Pablo LlorcaPoliticsRomanceSpainQuote:
yjafjalla, the Icelandic volcano, has erupted. The European air traffic collapses. Álvaro has to interrupt his flight to Madrid. He decides to continue by train, starting his trip in Athens. He knows a group of people doing interrail; Berta, a young Swedish girl, among them. Álvaro initiates in a world full of new things for him: the pleasure of travelling by train, the parties at the youth hostels, love in a Croatian island…Read More » -
Jung-chi Chang – Gong fan AKA Partners in Crime (2014)
2011-2020CrimeDramaJung-chi ChangTaiwanHuang, Lin, and Yeh find a dying classmate in an alley and try to find out what brought her to that point.Read More »
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Mats Grorud – The Tower (2018)
2011-2020AnimationDramaFranceMats GrorudThe Tower is an animation feature film, a deeply emotional fiction based on true stories of Palestinian refugees living in camps in Lebanon. The film tells the story of Wardi (11) and her family. It’s a story about the unbreakable bond between Wardi and her great-grandfather, and the sacrifice that he makes for her to have chance for a decent life. The love that family members share for each other and the way they keep hope alive is stronger than the difficulty of life in a refugee camp.
The film is based on interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.Read More »
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José Celestino Campusano – El sacrificio de Nehuén Puyelli AKA Nehuen Puyelli’s Sacrifice (2016)
2011-2020ArgentinaDramaJosé Celestino CampusanoThrillerQuote:
In the impossible quest to complete the work of South America’s truly major filmmaker ‘au travaille’, here’s his southern film, his prison opus.Read More » -
David Oelhoffen – Loin des hommes AKA Far from Men (2014)
2011-2020David OelhoffenDramaFranceWarQuote:
Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.Read More » -
Lucía Carreras – Nos vemos, papá AKA Missing Dad (2011)
2011-2020DramaLucia CarrerasMexicoQuote:
Pilar lives alone with her dad. One day after returning from work, she finds that he has passed away. From that moment on, her reality and memories are mixed in a disturbing way. Her life continues yet she is hunted by the presence of his father, she rejects her family and her desperate attempts to bring her normality. Alienated with grief, her life will clash between reality and desire.Read More » -
Sergei Loznitsa – V tumane AKA In the Fog (2012)
2011-2020DramaSergei LoznitsaUkraineWarQuote:
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. A train is derailed not far from the village, where Sushenya, a rail worker, lives with his family. Innocent Sushenya is arrested with a group of saboteurs, but the German officer makes a decision not to hang him with the others and sets him free. Rumours of Sushenya’s treason spread quickly, and partisans Burov and Voitik arrive from the forest to get revenge. As the partisans lead their victim through the forest, they are ambushed, and Sushenya finds himself one-to-one with his wounded enemy. Deep in an ancient forest, where there are neither friends nor enemies, and where the line between treason and heroism disappears, Sushenya is forced to make a moral choice under immoral circumstances.Read More » -
Pascal Plante – Nadia, Butterfly (2020)
2011-2020CanadaDramaPascal PlanteWhile young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games; to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.
Official Selection Festival de Cannes 2020.Read More »