2011-2020

  • Elvis Lu – The Shepherds (2018)

    2011-2020DocumentaryElvis LuQueer Cinema(s)Taiwan

    Despite harsh condemnation and denunciation from society, a heterosexual female pastor founded Taiwan’s first LGBT-affirming church in May 1996. For LGBT Christians, who had been rejected by the Christian community for a long time, they finally have a church that offers them a safe haven. Though the founder has passed away, the church members continue to make their voice heard, confronting the unjust social institutions while struggling with religious conflict at the same time. Come hell or high water, they strive to make a difference in the lives of others by telling their own life stories, in hope that love will eventually trump hate and solve misunderstanding someday.Read More »

  • Joshua Gen Solondz – Luna e Santur (2016)

    USA2011-2020ExperimentalJoshua Gen Solondz

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    Moon and sun are elliptically and stroboscopically conjured in Joshua Gen Solondz’s cloistered yet operatic Luna e Santur. In milky, hand-processed images, hooded figures recalling Magritte’s The Lovers enact a series of rituals in which an old trauma is remembered and exorcized.Read More »

  • Pedro González-Rubio – Inori (2012)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJapanPedro González-Rubio

    A dying town in the lush, water-fed mountains of Japan’s southeastern Nara Prefecture inspires Mexican multihyphenate Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio to ruminate on natural wonders and the melancholy inevitability facing an aging population in “Inori.” Produced by Naomi Kawase as part of her Nara Film Fest’s Narative project, the docu adheres closely to the Kawase model of nature lensed in a minor key, and fans of Gonzalez-Rubio’s “Alamar” will find gentle pleasures in this agreeable yet slight work.Read More »

  • Sergio Teubal – El dedo (2011)

    2011-2020ArgentinaComedySergio Teubal

    After seven years of dictatorship, a remote village in Argentina formally becomes a town with the birth of its 501st inhabitant. Hidalgo, a slick and ingratiating scion, is eager for the new post of mayor. Smelling a rat, Baldomero (a beloved natural leader with a habitually tapping digit) opposes him with his own candidacy—and soon turns up dead. His shopkeeper brother vows revenge, keeping Baldomero’s severed finger in a jar, initially as a remembrance, but eventually as an absurd icon of leadership that spurs the town to defy crooked elections, interloping powers and Hidalgo to go its own way. Based on real events, this charming dramatic comedy pokes fun at small town ways while celebrating true democratic values.Read More »

  • Ji-won Lee – Mi-sseu-baek AKA Miss Baek (2018)

    2011-2020DramaJi-won LeeSouth Korea

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    A woman’s past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn’t open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the cruel world. A man who holds feelings for the woman, tries to protect her in his own way.Read More »

  • Pietro Marcello – Bella e perduta AKA Lost and Beautiful (2015)

    2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryItalyPietro Marcello

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    The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey’s end does not bring what they were hoping for.Read More »

  • Antoine d’Agata – Atlas (2013)

    2011-2020Antoine d'AgataArthouseExperimentalFrance

    A man with no emotional ties, a survivor of a long journey, collects giddy images, scattered fragments of a splintered identity like the regions he crosses through. He wears himself out with the strangeness of signs, places, and unfathomable languages. There is no god or indulgence in his nights, but the acceptance that there is only flesh.
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  • Cameron Bruce Nelson – Some Beasts (2015)

    2011-2020Cameron Bruce NelsonDramaUSA

    Working in an insular farming community in Appalachia, Sal Damon, a modern-day Thoreau, seeks solace from a past relationship. After a sudden death in the community and the discovery of a feral child living on the lam, Sal must reconcile his place in a world that lives outside of the law.Read More »

  • Beatrice Gibson – The Tiger’s Mind (2012)

    2011-2020Beatrice GibsonShort FilmThrillerUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis: The Tiger’s Mind is a crime thriller set against the backdrop of a Brutalist villa. In it, six characters – Tiger, Mind, Tree, Wind, Circle and a girl called Amy (that respectively correspond to the set, music, sounds, special effects, director and narration) – battle one another for the control over the film, which explores the unfolding of their relationships.Read More »

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