2000s

  • Rita Azevedo Gomes – Altar (2003)

    Rita Azevedo Gomes2001-2010ArthouseDramaPortugal

    Quote:
    René, an actor, who has long lived withdrawn from reality after the death of his wife, Hélène. Proud in his isolation, he rarely sees anyone, yet enjoys spending hours on the phone with friends. His ghosts from a distant past haunt him. The deep restlessness of a first love remain indecipherable as before. Like Hermann Hesse’s short story Juin, from which the film is freely inspired by, it is about the mysteries of memory, about the strength of its expression through the spoken word. On the strength of the word as cinematic image.Read More »

  • Jorge Polaco – Viaje por el cuerpo AKA Journey Through the Body (2001)

    Jorge Polaco2001-2010ArgentinaDrama

    Synopsis
    A photographer has drawn his world by populating it with clandestine images. Photography allowed him years ago the excuse to try to escape from the family nucleus. And so, lightly packed, he boarded the first and only train.
    (translated from FILMAFFINITY)Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Schlim – House of Boys (2009)

    2001-2010DramaJean-Claude SchlimLuxembourgQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    Quote:
    House of Boys is a 2009 Luxembourgian-German drama film directed and written by Jean-Claude Schlim, starring Layke Anderson, Benn Northover and Udo Kier. The film follows the story of Frank, a gay teenager in the 80’s who runs away from his home to start a new life and later his struggle against the recently discovered AIDS.

    The film soundtrack uses music from a number of renowned artists like Cockney Rebel, Jimmy Sommerville, Klaus Nomi, Roy Orbison, Spandau Ballet, Soft Cell, Udo Kier, Romy Haag, Dangerous Muse, and ends with “Là-bas” (Somewhere) (music by Cyril Collard and lyrics by Corine Blue) and performed by Nyco Lilliu.Read More »

  • Lucía Puenzo – El niño pez aka The Fish Child (2009)

    2001-2010ArgentinaDramaLucía PuenzoRomance

    Quote:
    A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.Read More »

  • Massimilian Breeder & Nina Breeder – Devil Come to Hell and Stay Where You Belong (2008)

    2001-2010ArthouseExperimentalMassimilian BreederNina BreederUSA

    From a small cabin in the mountains of New York, Nina Breeder and Massimilian Breeder begin a journey across the United States. California is just the initial destination, but just as the edge of the surrounding landscape expands, so does their ultimate d“Bonnie & Clyde meet Bruno Dumont in a sensually explosive road trip through the USA.” – CPH DOX Festival, Copenhagen, 2008Read More »

  • Takashi Ito – Memai AKA Dizziness (2001)

    Takashi Ito2001-2010ExperimentalJapanShort Film

    Takashi Ito wrote:
    In the final scene of my last work, A Silent Day, a girl was filming herself with an 8mm camera on a railway bridge. Although the film doesn’t depict the incident, she later jumped off the bridge in an attempt to kill herself. Two girls witnessed her attempted suicide, and in this film I am attempting to depict the broken state of their psyches. In this piece, various images have been generated as a result of my professional interaction with a number of young people with mental illnesses, and the unstable state of mind which I have often experienced in recent days.Read More »

  • Andrey Kravchuk – Italyanets AKA The Italian (2005)

    2001-2010Andrey KravchukDramaRussia

    Synopsis:
    Six-year-old Vanya Solntsev lives in a desolate and rundown orphanage run by an alcoholic headmaster. When a wealthy Italian couple wanting to adopt selects him, the other children, especially his good friend, Anton, envy his fortune and name him The Italian. However, when a grief-stricken mother of another boy commits suicide after returning to reclaim her son and discovering he is no longer there, Vanya fears the same fate looms for him. With the aid of some of the older boys, he retrieves his file from the office safe and learns the address of the children’s home where he previously lived. Certain the records there will identify his mother, he sets off on his quest with the help of an older girl.Read More »

  • Harmony Korine – Mister Lonely (2007)

    Harmony Korine2001-2010ArthouseDramaUnited Kingdom

    In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.Read More »

  • Pater Sparrow – 1 (2009)

    2001-2010HungaryPater SparrowSci-Fi

    A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.

    Based on Stanislaw Lem’s experimental novel One Human Minute.Read More »

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