2011-2020

  • Anders Fløe – Afskåret AKA Secluded (2016)

    2011-2020Anders FløeDenmarkDrama

    19-year-old Sarah is going on holiday deep in the Swedish forests with her parents. Everything seems to be completely idyllic, but just as she leaves behind civilisation and mobile phone coverage, she discovers that a sex tape of her has been shared on the internet. Without a connection to the outside world, it is difficult for her to prevent the video from spreading, and Sarah’s world slowly falls apart. But what seems like her life’s worst crisis is overshadowed during the holiday by an even worse nightmare, that has fatal consequences for the entire family.Read More »

  • Olivier Smolders – La légende dorée (2015)

    2011-2020BelgiumDocumentaryOlivier SmoldersShort Film

    Collector of cursed musicians, unreasonable murderers, fairground freaks, paranoid revolutionaries, flatulists and suicidal hermits, a psychiatric patient presents a gallery of the historic figures he is haunted by.Read More »

  • Kalender Hasan – Tecahül-i Arif AKA About Arif (2016)

    2011-2020DramaKalender HasanShort FilmTurkey

    Synopsis
    Arif with Down syndrome has only one purpose in his life: dancing with a woman. But, all of the his neighbors know that Arif lives in an imaginary world.

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  • Christos Gkotsis – To Taksimo AKA The Pledge (2014)

    2011-2020Christos GkotsisDramaGreeceShort Film

    A man lives isolated on an island. His only companion is a young woman with whom he has made an unnatural agreement: She pretends to be his deceased wife. What happens when the pledge is broken?Read More »

  • Johannes Holzhausen – Das große Museum AKA The Great Museum (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseAustriaDocumentaryJohannes Holzhausen

    Quote:
    The documentary THE GREAT MUSEUM is a curious, witty and humorous peek behind the scenes at a world-famous cultural institution. Director Johannes Holzhausen and his team spent more than two years gathering material at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Shot in the attentive style of direct cinema – with no off-screen commentary, no interviews and no background music – the film observes the various processes involved in creating a perfect setting for art. From the managing director to the cleaning services team, from the carriers to the art historians, the staff members at the museum are all interdependent cogs in the same machine.Read More »

  • Qiu Jiongjiong – Chi AKA Mr. Zhang Believes (2015)

    2011-2020ChinaDocumentaryExperimentalQiu Jiongjiong

    An experimental documentary epic, Mr. Zhang Believes recounts 30 years of China’s 20th-century history through the story of Mr. Zhang Xianchi and the interacting forms of theatrical fiction and autobiography.Read More »

  • Will Benedict, David Leonard – Toilets Not Temples (2014)

    2011-2020David LeonardExperimentalWill Benedict

    Toilets Not Temples, a film by David Leonard and Will Benedict, mixes different styles of narrative storytelling such as live journal (rehearsing the breaking news over and over again), news anchor (reporting on catastrophes as if the reporter was reading lottery numbers), and rap video (does anyone ever listen to the lyrics?), only to mention the most important ones. These are wrapped in a (post)apocalyptic film narrative. A narrative that, despite the dominant trend in feature films that must have an end-of-times scenario, finishes with a five-minute scene of a jubilant crowd somewhere in India—celebrating the end of food shortage and the volunteers’ (who fall from the sky) success in containing a spread of giant rats.Read More »

  • Gürcan Keltek – Gulyabani (2018)

    2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalGürcan KeltekTurkey

    Gulyabani is an entity, a ghoul, an outsider. She’s the restless spirit of a desolate and lonely place. Fethiye Sessiz, a notorious clairvoyant from Izmir in 1970s and 1980s, remembers fractions of her survival from abuse, kidnappings and violence. Recounting the events of her childhood through her diary and letters to her estranged son, Gulyabani recollects the emotional landscape in the most violent period of post-Republic Turkey, where the memory of the future and fragments of the past come together at once. (IMDb)Read More »

  • Aleksandra Strelyanaya – Sukhodol AKA The Dry Valley (2011)

    2011-2020Aleksandra StrelyanayaArthouseDramaRussia

    Quote:
    The Dry Valley (Суходол) is the first full feature film by Alexandra Strelyanaya. The film is based on the famous novel written by Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Bunin.
    This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.Read More »

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