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“REVERSE ANGLE was my first diary film. It is about “new wave music” (among others Jim Jarmusch’s Del Byzanteens), about straying in New York, about the editing process of HAMMETT in the presence of Francis Ford Coppola, about a novel by Emanuel Bove and about Edward Hopper. And somehow, the whole thing was a reflection about filmmaking in Europe and America.” — Wim WendersRead More »
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Wim Wenders – Reverse Angle: Ein Brief aus New York (1982)
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Michael Haneke – Nachruf für einen Mörder AKA Obituary for a Murderer (1991)
1991-2000AustriaDocumentaryMichael HanekeTVSynopsis:
Autumn 1990, a young Austrian goes to a party held by some of his friends and provokes a hideous bloodbath. As a reflection of daily reality and its crass representation of the horror of this extreme crime, Michael Haneke has composed an experimental collage of material gathered from one day of ORF (Austrian TV) broadcasting, using each part in proportion to the time allocated to it in the programme schedule.Source: Archival Beta Tape (Austrian Broadcast Corporation)Read More »
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Hassan Fazili – Midnight Traveler (2019)
2011-2020AfghanistanDocumentaryHassan FaziliIn 2015, the Taliban put a price on the head of Hassan, a filmmaker, who was forced to flee Afghanistan with his wife and two young daughters. Using their camera phones, the fugitives show first-hand the many dangers refugees face when seeking asylum in a safe place.Read More »
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Ceylan Özgün Özçelik – Ankebût (2020)
Ceylan Özgün Özçelik2011-2020DocumentaryShort FilmTurkeyA woman, released from prison, drifts between nightmare and reality.Read More »
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Aleksey Solodunov & Dmitry Stoykov & Oleksandr Techynskyi – All Things Ablaze (2014)
2011-2020Aleksey SolodunovDmitry StoykovDocumentaryOleksandr TechynskyiUkraineQuote:
What does the violent heart of revolution feel like? A visceral documentary from Maidan square in the violent Ukrainian winter of 2013-14.Read More » -
Marwa Arsanios – Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3: Micro Resistencias (2020)
Marwa Arsanios2011-2020DocumentaryGermanyPoliticsMarwa Arsanios’ Who is Afraid of Ideology? series (2017 – 2020) weaves together ecological activism, the struggles of women, and Indigenous land rights, from Northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan to the so-called ‘coffee belt’ of Colombia. Self-defence, autonomy, collectivity, eco-feminism, Indigenous struggle, and seed-protection define the common ground for these women in their resistance to the capitalist logic of extraction and exploitation of the land. The last film in this trilogy, Part III – Micro Resistances, takes place in Tolima, Colombia, and focuses on the ongoing systemic war waged by transnational corporations against one of the smallest and most essential elements of life: the seed. Against forced displacements, violence and murder, Indigenous women are preserving their native seeds, and an ancestral knowledge of cultivation and care.Read More »
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Hana Makhmalbaf – Ruzha-ye Sabz AKA Green Days (2009)
2001-2010DocumentaryHana MakhmalbafIranPoliticsAva, an Iranian woman suffering from depression, blames recent political events in Iran for her troubled mental state and goes to a psychologist. The psychologist advises her to take on physical work, and later, to work on a play. However, the play, inspired by the reality and problems of her society, is banned. It is election time. The city is alive with possibilities. A new wave of hope has sent people massing into the streets to participate, to vote against the current president. Everywhere there is singing, dancing, action— a vibrant, passionate vision of a very different future for her country. But Ava still doesn’t believe change will come. She leaves her home and talks to people in the streets, trying desperately to rekindle her own hope.
The film is part documentary, part fiction.Read More »
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Roman Bordun – The Diviners (2019)
2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalRoman BordunUkraineQuote:
The main characters of the film are the inhabitants of the contemporary Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Their reality is multi-layered, unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous interpretations of good and evil, humanity and cruelty, charity and indifference. This story is a kaleidoscope, which features all of us: the righteous, the merciless, the funny, the naïve. The honest.Read More » -
Paolo Cavara – I malamondo (1964)
Documentary1961-1970ItalyPaolo CavaraThis documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hog-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.Read More »