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  • Aleksandra Strelyanaya – Sukhodol AKA The Dry Valley (2011)

    2011-2020Aleksandra StrelyanayaArthouseDramaRussia

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    The Dry Valley (Суходол) is the first full feature film by Alexandra Strelyanaya. The film is based on the famous novel written by Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Bunin.
    This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.Read More »

  • Sonja Prosenc – Drevo AKA The Tree (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaSloveniaSonja Prosenc

    A family finds itself in a dead-end situation. They are only safe behind the walls of their own house and yard. As time vanishes from their home, the shelter slowly turns into a prison. However, nothing can keep the children from dreaming and yearning to be free and the urge to make a decision seems inevitable.

    A chamber piece drama that vivisects family values, almost like in ancient tragedies determined by doom.Read More »

  • Peter Schreiner – Lampedusa (2016)

    2011-2020AustriaDocumentaryExperimentalPeter Schreiner

    Synopsis
    As the most southern island off the coast of Italy, Lampedusa is relatively close to Africa. This is where Zakaria got stranded – a Somali journalist who fled his country because of the war. He escaped that, but on Lampedusa he wrestles with fears and existential questions. Here he meets Giulia, an ageing woman facing a personal crisis on the same island. Together and separately, they try to get a grip on life.Read More »

  • Nanni Moretti – Mia madre AKA My Mother (2015)

    2011-2020DramaItalyNanni Moretti

    Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. Read More »

  • Sergei Loznitsa – Donbass (2018)

    2011-2020DramaSergei LoznitsaUkraine

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    In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.Read More »

  • Ozan Aciktan – Silsile AKA Consequences (2014)

    2011-2020CrimeDramaOzan AciktanTurkey

    Cenk has just arrived back to Istanbul from the United States. Suppressed love slowly begins to resurface after he encounters Ece, a woman whom he had a romantic relationship with in the past. Suddenly, there is a robbery attempt in a quiet and gloomy house, which results in a crime being committed. Ece flees the scene of the crime and in comes Faruk, Cenk’s best friend and Ece’s fiancé. The two best friends struggle to keep their secrets hidden from one another. Intertwining chain of events follow as these three urban lives are put to the ultimate test; their sufferings and disappointments being exposed to the surface for all to see.Read More »

  • Andreas Johnsen – Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013)

    2011-2020Andreas JohnsenDenmarkDocumentaryPolitics

    From the website:
    After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. He suffers from sleeping disorder and memory loss, 18 cameras are monitoring his studio and home, police agents follow his every move, and heavy restrictions from the Kafkaesque Chinese authorities weigh him down. Journalists, the art world and his family all want a piece of him and on top of that he is met with a gigantic lawsuit from the Chinese government, soon to be named ‘The Fake Case’. Ai Weiwei is shaken, but during the year on probation he steadily finds new ways to provoke and challenge the mighty powers of the Chinese authorities in his fight for human rights. Ai Weiwei strongly believes that China is ready for change. And he will do everything to make it happen.Read More »

  • Ole Giæver & Marte Vold – Mot naturen AKA Out of Nature (2014)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaNorwayOle Giæver and Marte Vold

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    A journey inside Martin’s head. He’s on a weekend mountain trip, and we get to know his thoughts. Unsensored, essential, existential and silly about feelings and fantasies. A recognizable film about being human, and how we tick and think.

    Screen Daily wrote:
    A Walter Mitty-esque comedy drama set against the stunning backdrop of the Norwegian great outdoors, Out Of Nature (Mot naturen) is an engaging delve into one man’s troubled sub-conscious as he tries to tackle the issues – mainly sexually orientated – haunting his life.Read More »

  • Andreas Dresen – Als wir träumten AKA As We Were Dreaming (2015)

    2011-2020Andreas DresenDramaGermany

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    Daniel, Mark, Rico, Pitbull and Paul. A group of East German friends grow up in the early 90s. The first years of reunified Germany – when everything was colliding, when everything seemed possible. From boyhood to rough-and-tumble teenagers, the Leipzig suburbs were their whole world. Daniel was in love, Rico was the greatest boxer. And Starlet was the prettiest girl they had ever known. They party, they riot, they run a techno club, run from neo-Nazis, their parents and the future. They are coming of age in a time of anarchy.Read More »

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