2020s

  • Kore-eda Hirokazu – Kaibutsu AKA Monster (2023)

    2021-2030DramaJapanKore-eda HirokazuMystery
    Kaibutsu (2023)
    Kaibutsu (2023)

    PLOT: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.Read More »

  • Franciska Eliassen – Den siste varen AKA Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? (2022)

    2021-2030DramaFranciska EliassenNorway
    Den siste varen (2022)
    Den siste varen (2022)

    In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to follow in the shadow of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately however, something is happening to Vera. In a bid to understand, Eira starts reading her diary.

    Conversation with the director included.Read More »

  • Rachel Lambert – Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)

    Rachel Lambert2021-2030ComedyDramaUSA
    Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
    Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)

    Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.Read More »

  • Potsy Ponciroli – Old Henry (2021)

    2021-2030ActionPotsy PonciroliUSAWestern
    Old Henry (2021)
    Old Henry (2021)

    Old Henry, an action western about a widowed farmer and his son who warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.Read More »

  • Jerome Hiler – Cinema Before 1300 (2023)

    2021-2030DocumentaryJerome HilerUSA
    Cinema Before 1300 (2023)
    Cinema Before 1300 (2023)

    Quote:
    In 2017 I invited Jerome Hiler to the Harvard Film Archive to present Cinema Before 1300, an illustrated lecture he had delivered on several occasions whose title and subject intrigued me. A talk on medieval stained glass, accompanied by Hiler’s own still images taken over the years, principally in those cathedrals in France and the UK that today remain among the last repositories of this now lost luminary art and craft. The event that unfolded was mesmerizing and moving, a meditation on stained glass as a popular and devotional art, and as a precursor to cinema.Read More »

  • Cuini Amelio-Ortiz – Margarethe von Trotta – Zeit der Frauen (2022)

    2021-2030Cuini Amelio-OrtizDocumentaryGermany
    Margarethe von Trotta Zeit der Frauen (2022)
    Margarethe von Trotta Zeit der Frauen (2022)

    Margarethe von Trotta is one of the few German female director icons and is internationally revered as a star director. In 2022 she will celebrate her 80th birthday. Her works are among the most important German films and have written German (film) history. Margarethe von Trotta asserted herself early on in a purely male domain. In 1981 she won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “Die leaden time” and thus started her world career.Read More »

  • Rithy Panh – Irradiés (2020)

    Rithy Panh2011-2020CambodiaDocumentary
    Irradiés (2020)
    Irradiés (2020)

    Quote:
    A film about people who have survived the irradiation of war and is recommended to those who believe they are immune to it. An extreme, necessary film that penetrates the eye and heart with unyielding force.Read More »

  • Lila Avilés – Tótem AKA Totem (2023)

    2021-2030DramaLila AvilésMexico
    Tótem (2023)
    Tótem (2023)

    Quote:
    Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family’s foundations. Sol will embrace the essence of letting go as a release for existence.Read More »

  • Bertrand Mandico – L’émission a déjà commencé (2023)

    Bertrand Mandico2021-2030ArthouseFranceTV
    L'émission a déjà commencé (2023)
    L’émission a déjà commencé (2023)

    Histoires courtes, the France 2 short films program, gives carte blanche to Bertrand Mandico who brings together three of his short films.

    “Rainer, A Vicious Dog in Skull Valley” (2023) 26 min.
    Octavia Foss wants to stage a female version of Conan the Barbarian in the theater. She makes a pact with a dog-headed demon to achieve her goals.

    “We Barbarians” (2023) 27 min.
    On the set of a film in the making, four actresses take turns guiding us. They unknowingly drag us into their damnation.

    “The Last Cartoon” (2022) 8 min.
    A time, as much future as current, where “cinema will be will be all other and nothing else”. Where, “it will be the last appointment of the flesh”, where “the energy will be cannibal and the sun will reflect to say nothing”. Pessimistic or optimistic is this cinematic pamphlet on art ?Read More »

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