2021-2030

  • Noel Keserwany & Michelle Keserwany – Les chenilles (2023)

    Noel Keserwany2021-2030DramaFranceMichelle KeserwanyShort Film
    Les chenilles (2023)
    Les chenilles (2023)

    Golden Bear for Best Short Film / Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival 2023

    Asma and Sarah, two women originally from the Levant, find themselves working in the same restaurant in the city of Lyon in France. Both bear the weight of a home they were forced to leave behind. Initially wary of each other, they gradually discover a common thread that binds them – one that dates back to when the Silk Road connected Lyon to their home countries.
    In the midst of forced migrations, can we move past our animosity to find solace in each other?Read More »

  • Deborah Stratman – Last Things (2023)

    Deborah Stratman2021-2030DocumentaryExperimentalUSA
    Last Things (2023)
    Last Things (2023)

    Synopsis:
    The project originated from two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, the joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote on natural, prehistoric and speculative subjects—sci fi before it was a genre. The film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Also central are Roger Caillois’ writing on stones, Robert Hazen’s theory of Mineral Evolution, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star, the Symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, multi-species scenarios of Donna Haraway, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy. In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind and human reason from the center of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud form the film’s science-fictional / science-factual spine. Stones are its anchor. To touch stone is to meet alien duration. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.Read More »

  • Masao Adachi – Revolution+1 (2022)

    Masao Adachi2021-2030DramaJapan
    Revolution+1 (2022)
    Revolution+1 (2022)

    Quote:
    Masao Adachi’s first new film in six years that secretly started filming at the end of August. About the life of Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Read More »

  • Story Chen – Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya AKA The Water Murmurs (2022)

    China2021-2030Short FilmStory Chen
    Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya (2022)
    Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya (2022)

    When an asteroid hits the Earth leading to underwater volcanic eruptions, the inhabitants of a small riverside town start to flee inland. Before she leaves, Nian decides to say goodbye to her childhood friend.Read More »

  • Robin Campillo – L’île rouge AKA Red Island (2023)

    Robin Campillo2021-2030DramaFrance
    L'île rouge (2023)
    L’île rouge (2023)

    Thomas lives in a military base on colony of Madagascar. His parents and their circle, gradually becomes aware of politics both territorial and sexual while finding an outlet for his imagination in the exploits of crimebuster Fantômette.Read More »

  • Aliaksei Paluyan – Courage (2021)

    2021-2030Aliaksei PaluyanBelarusDocumentary
    Courage (2021)
    Courage (2021)

    During the presidential elections in Belarus, three actors from an underground theatre in Minsk are caught up in the wake of mass protests. It draws them onto the open streets of Minsk to protest for freedom of speech and the long-awaited change of power. But the people’s voice is brutally crushed by the regime’s security apparatus. Members of the theatre group are arrested. The country is on the brink of civil war. COURAGE accompanies the brave and peaceful resistance of Maryna, Pavel and Denis before and during the protests and offers a personal and deep insight into the Belarus of today.Read More »

  • Alessandro Comodin – Gigi la legge aka The Adventures of Gigi the Law (2022)

    Alessandro Comodin2021-2030DramaItaly
    Gigi la legge (2022)
    Gigi la legge (2022)

    Quote:
    Gigi is a police officer in a countryside where nothing ever happens. One day however, a young girl throws herself under a train. This is not the first time. Facing this unexplainable suicide wave, Gigi starts investigating a strange world, between reality and fantasy, where a garden turns into a jungle and where an ever-smiling policeman keeps his heart open to love.Read More »

  • 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 »

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