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In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.Read More »
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Ulrich Seidl – Tierische Liebe AKA Animal Love (1995)
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Mitchell Block – …No Lies [+Extras] (1974)
1971-1980DocumentaryMitchell BlockShort FilmUSASynopsis
A young filmmaking student turns his camera on a female friend as she gets ready to go out for the night. She soon reveals to him she was sexually assaulted a few days before.Read More » -
Pacho Velez & Stephanie Spray – Manakamana (2013)
2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryNepalPacho VelezStephanie SprayQuote:
Breathtaking, poignant and mesmerizing, MANAKAMANA is a documentary shot entirely inside the narrow bubble of a cable car, high above a jungle in Nepal, as it transports villagers and tourists to an ancient mountaintop temple. Filmed in 16mm and comprised of 11 rides (each a single take corresponds to the length of a roll of film), MANAKAMANA is a tender, ephemeral character study of its passengers and a window onto the lush, rolling landscape of a country in transition from ancient tradition to modernity. This evocative and rigorously structured documentary presents a rich sensory experience that ignites the viewer’s imagination to fill in the past, present and future of each moment as they watch. The New York Film Festival calls it, “…an airborne version of an Andy Warhol screen test…an endlessly suggestive film that both describes and transcends the bounds of time and space.”Read More » -
Masao Adachi – Ryakusho: renzoku shasatsuma AKA Serial Killer (1969)
1961-1970DocumentaryExperimentalJapanMasao AdachiQuote:
A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing his crimes. Their result is this provocative, rarely-screened meditation on geography and society.Read More » -
Agustina Comedi – El silencio es un cuerpo que cae (2017)
2011-2020Agustina ComediArgentinaDocumentaryAgustina discovers that her late father, previous to his marriage and family life, was involved with insurgent leftist groups during the era of the Argentinian military dictatorship, had a long term romantic relationship with another man and was a prominent member of the underground LGBT scene.
She reconstructs her father’s life through interviews with people that knew him and a treasure trove of family films to produce a moving portrait of a multi-faceted, fascinating and mysterious figure.Read More » -
Nina Hedenius – Det speglar i mitt öga AKA My Eye Is Reflecting (1992)
1991-2000DocumentaryExperimentalNina HedeniusSwedenIndependent filmmaker Nina Hedenius Det speglar i mitt öga [My Eye Is Reflecting] is a poetic film on the act of seeing and on the details that rarely gets our attention. The film is a collage of diverse scenes depicting life, death, objects and people; a Swedish crayfish party, a classroom, cows in the meadow, the Stockholm subway… With musical effects by Ralph Lundsten.Read More »
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Shinsuke Ogawa – Sanrizuka: Gogatu no sora Sato no kayoiji AKA Sanrizuka: The Sky of May (1977)
1971-1980DocumentaryJapanShinsuke OgawaThe seventh and final film in Shinsuke Ogawa’s groundbreaking Sanrizuka Series chronicling the agrarian resistance to the construction of Chiba Prefecture’s Narita International Airport.Read More »
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Fernando Birri – El siglo del viento AKA Century of the Wind (1999)
Documentary1991-2000ArgentinaFernando BirriSynopsis
The book EL SIGLO DEL VIENTO, the third part of a trilogy about the history of Latin America, is not a traditional historical work. The Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano (1940) was even exiled for a long time to prevent his headstrong and critical style from becoming too famous. His style, which combines dry facts about the exploitation, the oppression and the violence in South America with individual anecdotes and literary creativity, is preserved in the documentary that Fernando Birri adapted from the book. In ‘chapters‘, each dealing with a certain period in the history of this century, an image is created of a continent that is constantly afflicted by setbacks and misery. Read More » -
Wim Wenders – Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
1991-2000DocumentaryGermanyMusicalWim WendersPlot:
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro’s takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians’ careers.Read More »