• 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 »

  • Joann Sfar – Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)

    Joann Sfar2001-2010DramaFranceMusical
    Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
    Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)

    Synopsis
    A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.Read More »

  • Yigal Lossin – Pillar Of Fire – A Television History Of Israel’s Rebirth (1979)

    1971-1980DocumentaryHolocaust HistoryIsraelPoliticsYigal Lossin
    Pillar Of Fire A Television History Of Israel's Rebirth (1979)
    Pillar Of Fire A Television History Of Israel’s Rebirth (1979)

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    The incredible story of Israel’s rebirth – this landmark series is the masterpiece of Israeli documentaries and the crowning achievement of Israeli television.

    Pillar of Fire relates the drama of the Jewish people’s return to Zion and the establishment of the state of Israel. It is an extensive documentary production that feature rare documentary footage collected from more than 30 archives and private collections throughout the world, as well as many eye-witness interviews. This documentary series also portrays the Jewish-Arab struggle for Palestine, persecution of Jews in Europe, the war of 1948 and David Ben-Gurion’s declaration of independence.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 »

  • Daniel Schmid – La Paloma (1974)

    Arthouse1971-1980Daniel SchmidDramaSwitzerland
    La Paloma (1974)
    La Paloma (1974)

    This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse stricken with CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease seems to be arrested when a plump, wealthy young man (Peter Kern) develops a grand passion for her, but mortality raises its grinning skull again when she falls helplessly in love with another man. Jay Cocks in Time wrote, “La Paloma is a wonderful mad shotgun wedding of high camp movie mythology, bad taste, obsessive, romanticism, and impudent satire… Whatever it is, it certainly is some kind of fantastic movie.”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 »

  • Phillip J. Roth – Interceptors AKA Interceptor Force (1999)

    1991-2000ActionDramaPhillip J. RothUSA
    Interceptors (1999)
    Interceptors (1999)

    In the near future, the government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force of the world’s best, they are known as the Interceptor Force. A covert early warning satellite network tracks an object crash landing in a town in the Pacific Northwest. Within minutes of the impact, all communication with the town is mysteriously severed. The news sources are given a false story of contamination and the area is sealed off. AWAC’s and fighters patrol the perimeter. As the silence from the town continues, the Interceptor team lead by Lieutenant Sean Lambert (Gruner) is sent in to investigate. Read More »

  • Ken’ichirô Nishiumi – Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta AKA A Helpless Love Song (2018)

    2011-2020DramaJapanKen'ichirô NishiumiRomance
    Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta (2018)
    Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta (2018)

    After experiencing failure in business and his marriage, Mitsutoshi Yashiro walks around looking for a place to die. He decides to stop at a red light district shop to have sex for one last time. He meets Hina who changes his life.Read More »

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