North Korean exiles reminisce their first impressions of watching forbidden foreign films.Read More »
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Maija Blåfield – The Fantastic (2020)
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Gaetano Liberti – J the film (2018)
2011-2020Bosnia HerzegovinaExperimentalGaetano LibertiJ tells the story of a man who lives an isolated life before encountering a woman that will open up, for a while, his controlled world.Read More »
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Radu Jude – Tara moarta AKA The Dead Nation (2017)
Radu Jude2011-2020DocumentaryRomaniaA documentary-essay, Țara moartă shows a collection of photographs from a small Romanian town in the 1930s and 1940s. The soundtrack, composed mostly of excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, depicts what the photographs do not: the rising of antisemitism and eventually the harrowing depiction of the Romanian persecution of the Jews, a subject rarely talked in contemporary Romania.Read More »
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Artavazd Peleshian – La Nature (2019)
2011-2020Artavazd PeleshianDocumentaryExperimentalFranceQuote:
While it was long thought that his filmography had concluded with the film Life in 1993, Pelechian has now returned with a new film, simply titled Nature, through which he once again observes the delicate cohabitation of human communities with their environment—a central theme in his work. The images composing the film—mainly amateur footage gathered from the internet—are fragile traces shot in the midst of nature and its turmoil. A visual elegy, the film resolutely acknowledges nature’s superiority, which is capable of taming all human ambition.Read More » -
Leyla Yilmaz – Bilmemek AKA Not Knowing (2019)
2011-2020DramaLeyla YilmazQueer Cinema(s)TurkeyQuote:
Umut is a young water polo player – a gentle and quiet high school senior just trying to live his life in a complicated world. When a fellow player spreads a rumor that he is gay, Umut displays maturity beyond his years. He doesn’t deny the allegation – refusing to apologize or explain himself.His parents, distracted by their own marital problems, prove powerless to stem any fallout as his time at school becomes more and more fraught… until events reach a shocking head.
Set in the high testosterone world of teen sports – and a sometimes suffocating Turkish society – Not Knowing is a thoughtful and touching coming-of-age drama that holds a mirror up to what it still means to be young and gay in so much of the world today.Read More »
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Vitaliy Manskiy – Svideteli Putina AKA Putin’s Witnesses (2018)
Vitaliy Manskiy2011-2020DocumentaryLatviaDrawing on his own archive, lauded filmmaker Vitaly Mansky gives a close account of a turning point in Russia’s recent history. In a surprise move on December 31, 1999, the first president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin handed over the reins to his chosen successor, Vladimir Putin. Putin’s Witnesses covers his first year in power. Putin led the country back to Soviet-style nationalism, and has employed tyrannical methods to remain in power ever since. That knowledge casts an eerie shadow over the filmed material.Read More »
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Louis Henderson & Olivier Marboeuf – Ouvertures (2019)
Louis Henderson2011-2020DocumentaryHaitiOlivier MarboeufReflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, follows a collective’s process of translating Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole.Read More »
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Moyra Davey – Les Goddesses (2011)
2011-2020ExperimentalMoyra DaveyUSAVideo ArtQuote:
In Les Goddesses, filmed almost entirely in the artist’s New York apartment, Moyra Davey draws parallels between her familial experience and the family of 18th-century writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.Leafing through postcards, book pages, and her own photographs as she talks, Davey reflects on varied approaches to photography and film, such as planned versus unscripted recording of reality and the passage from private to public realms with a camera. Davey punctuates her narration with thoughts on writing as she simultaneously listens to and recites a script based on her 2011 essay, “The Wet and the Dry.”Read More »
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Wolf’s Calling (2019)
2011-2020JapanShort FilmToshiaki ToyodaSynopsis
A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture.Read More »