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  • Manon de Boer – Think About Wood, Think About Metal (2011)

    2011-2020BelgiumExperimentalManon de BoerVideo Art

    In a series of films in which we discover the portrait of a woman, Manon de Boer prolongs her experiments during the meeting with Robyn Schulkowsky. In Italy and then Germany, the rotation of the lens leads us in a false loop where the visible is metamorphosed by the audible. The meetings of the musician make up the journey of an instrumentalist confronted with some contemporary composers whose evocation disturbs our appreciation of the pieces performed. The sound portrait animates the vision of performance spaces.
    —Gilles GrandRead More »

  • Ala Eddine Slim – Tlamess (2019)

    2011-2020Ala Eddine SlimArthouseFranceMystery

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    In Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim’s experimental second feature, a soldier deserts his unit and lives on his instincts in the woods.

    An experimental anomaly on the Tunisian film front, writer-director Ala Eddine Slim has won a following with two films that leave logic and realism behind to chart a muddy course through the minefield of experimental-apocalyptic narrative. Although their meaning is hard to grasp (perhaps on purpose?), they have attracted attention. After Eddine Slim’s first feature The Last of Us was shown in New Directors, New Films in New York, his new but cut-from-the-same-cloth Tlamess turned up in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Wherever these enigmatic, schematic and often pretentious works are shown, their basic lack of dramatic truth haunts them and they run the risk of hearing frustrated audiences demand the emperor put some clothes on.Read More »

  • Isabelle Prim – La rouge et la noire AKA The Red and the Black (2011)

    2011-2020CrimeExperimentalFranceIsabelle Prim

    Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally, LA ROUGE ET LA NOIRE is a film in kaleidoscope form. The portrait of Aatons founder, Jean-Pierre Beauviala creator, inter alia, of the time-code and the light cameras used by the New Wave (in particular the bush camera specially designed for Jean Rouch) is centered around the basic plot introduced by two women thieves who talk as voice-overs, and whose identities will only be revealed at the end.Read More »

  • Moyra Davey – Hemlock Forest (2016)

    USA2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalMoyra Davey

    Hemlock Forest (2016) weaves references to Mary Wollstonecraft, Chantal Akerman and Karl Ove Knausgaard with Moyra Davey’s own family stories. During the making of Hemlock Forest, Akerman took her own life. Her death soon engulfed Davey’s awareness, prompting a broader exploration of Akerman’s and her own biographies, amid more universal themes of compulsion, artistic production, life and its passing.Read More »

  • Liang Ying – Wo hai you hua yao shou AKA When Night Falls (2012)

    Liang Ying2011-2020ChinaDrama

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    The mother of a murderer awaits and prepares to meet her son. The true story of a man who killed six Shanghai policemen after suffering police beatings as a punishment for riding an unlicensed bicycle. This film was produced as a part of the Jeonju Digital Project.Read More »

  • Mikhaël Hers – Ce sentiment de l’été AKA This Summer Feeling (2015)

    Mikhaël Hers2011-2020DramaFrance

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    A French young woman unexpectedly dies in Berlin, where she lives with her boyfriend. Her sudden passing ruins the lives of her famliy and partner. They struggle to find new meaning in Paris, Annecy and New York.Read More »

  • Aya Koretzky – A Volta ao Mundo Quando Tinhas 30 Anos AKA Around the World When You Were My Age (2018)

    2011-2020Aya KoretzkyDocumentaryPortugal

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    At 30, Jiro embarked into a year-long trip taking in the Soviet Union, North Africa, Europe, and the United States. Nearly half a century later, his daughter makes use of various memorabilia to take a step back in time and explore how such adventures have shaped the man’s take on the modern world.Read More »

  • Aleksey Fedorchenko – Voyna Anny AKA Anna’s War (2018)

    2011-2020Aleksey FedorchenkoDramaRussiaWar

    During World War II, a little girl is left without parents and is forced to hide from the Nazis, taking care of herself on her own. Day after day.

    11 wins & 17 nominations.Read More »

  • Yimou Zhang – Ying AKA Shadow (2018)

    2011-2020ActionChinaDramaYimou Zhang

    Set during China’s Three Kingdom’s era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The king, violent and ambitious, of mysterious methods and motives; his general, a visionary who yearns to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret; the women of the palace, who struggle to find redemption in a world where they have no place; and a commoner called “Lord of all the world”, will be the characters around who turn the inexorable forces of this story.Read More »

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