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A family man torn between the love for his family, the boundaries of religion and the freedom to choose whom to love.Read More »
2011-2020
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Jayro Bustamante – Temblores AKA Tremors (2019)
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Kevin Jerome Everson – Park Lanes (2015)
2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalKevin Jerome EversonUSAWith a screening time equivalent to a full day’s work, Everson turns the cinema into a factory floor. Workers are observed while performing specific tasks, as well as while taking breaks. His humble approach paradoxically results in a monumental film.Read More »
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Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte – The State Against Mandela and the Others (2018)
2011-2020DocumentaryFranceGilles PorteNicolas Champeaux2018 marks the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. He seized centre stage during a historic trial in 1963 and 1964. But there were eight others who, like him, faced the death sentence. They too were subjected to pitiless cross-examinations. To a man they stood firm and turned the tables on the state: South Africa’s apartheid regime was in the dock. Recently recovered sound archives of those hearings transport us back into the thick of the courtroom battles.Read More »
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Tobias Adam & Florian Kläger & Markus Milcke – A Story of Sahel Sounds (2016)
2011-2020DocumentaryFlorian KlägerGermanyMarkus MilckeMusicalTobias AdamThe film is about a project from Christopher Kirkleys called “Sahel Sounds”. He owns an independent label and travels through the Sahel area in Africa, to find musician with an unique sound. The music he uses for his vinyl publication is often in low audio quality but authentic. The plot shows the whole process, from negotiating a fair deal with musician to producing the vinyl. He also organizes European tours, in the movie he is on a trip with Mamman Sani and Mdou Moctar, two musician who were found by Kirkleys in Niger.Read More »
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Travis Collins & Amélie Ravalec – Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay (2015)
2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalFranceTravis Collins and Amélie RavalecQuote:
Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay traces the development of one of music’s most quietly influential genres from the post-industrial cities of Europe to America’s avant-garde scene, and features contributions from members of pioneering outfits : Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, NON, SPK, Test Dept, Clock DVA, Re/Search – V Vale, Z’EV, Click Click, Sordide Sentimental, Hula, The Klinik, Ant-Zen, Orphx, In The Nursery and Prima Linea.Read More » -
Sabrina Sarabi – Prélude (2019)
2011-2020DramaGermanyRomanceSabrina SarabiPrélude follows in the great tradition of romantic tales on the torments of adolescence and the highs and lows of first love.Read More »
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Joshua Oppenheimer – The Look of Silence (2014)
2011-2020DenmarkDocumentaryJoshua OppenheimerPoliticsJoshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence is a stunning companion piece, or possibly narrative development, to that extraordinary 2012 documentary The Act Of Killing. Its enigmatic title may indicate the numb silence which is the only possibly reaction to a certain kind of savagery and inhumanity, but perhaps mean the way that a nation sees but not see, sees in such a selective and slanted way as to suppress meaning, sees in such a way as to smother dissent into silence.Read More »
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Julia Marchese – Out of Print (2014)
2011-2020DocumentaryJulia MarcheseUSAIMDB:
A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition – seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema – a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.Read More » -
Liang Ying – A Family Tour (2018)
2011-2020DramaHong KongLiang YingNYFF wrote:
Since his 2012 feature When Night Falls, a stinging critique of state power that the Chinese authorities attempted to suppress, the director Ying Liang has been forced to live in exile in Hong Kong. His return to feature filmmaking is a characteristically precise and powerful work, and an autobiographical one, inspired by his own precarious situation and based on a reunion with his in-laws. Read More »