2010s

  • Gabriel Tejedor – Mayskaya Street (2017)

    2011-2020BelarusDocumentaryGabriel Tejedor

    Kanopy wrote:
    Winter 2015, Belarus. The presidential election is brewing. The omnipotent Lukashenko is running for a 5th. mandate at the head of this martyred country: devastated by World War II and then by Chernobyl. Kostia has just turned 18. He lives in the countryside, surrounded by his relatives: his grandmother who follows the presidential campaign on TV, the neighbor, a political opponent who restores the statues of the church, a photographer friend who dreams of being a reporter, a classmate not very shy, but jealous … A colorful daily life, based on resourcefulness and mutual aid. An arbitrary and absurd world too, where everyone tries to find a meaning, a dream, a project … From her birthday to his first vote, Kostia takes us along in his discovery of his fellow human beings, his country and his future.Read More »

  • Uri Rosenberg – Librarians (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryIsraelUri Rosenberg

    Librarians documents communities and librarians struggling to preserve books and the culture of reading in the digital age. Will they succeed? How do libraries function these days ad are they able to adapt to changes? What will be the fate of printed books? The movie exposes the unique characters and fascinating life stories of librarians and enthusiastic readers, who are still in need of the smell and touch of books, and the stories and history of the small and remote settlements, mainly Kibbutzim (collective settlements) in the Negev region, in which they live and operate.Read More »

  • Karsten Krause & Philip Widmann – Szenario (2014)

    Karsten Krause2011-2020ArthouseExperimentalGermanyPhilip Widmann

    Quote:
    The contents of a black briefcase lead us into a superficially well-ordered life in West Germany in 1970, in a city that can be seen as representative of the entire country. In this briefcase: the meticulous documentation of an affair between the small business owner Hans and his secretary Monika.Read More »

  • Sabrina Blanco – La Botera AKA Boat Rower Girl (2019)

    2011-2020ArgentinaDramaSabrina Blanco

    Tati is fourteen and lives in a shack by the river with her father, who barely takes care of her. She is a moody girl, rejected by her girl mates. Obsessed with becoming a boat rower—a job that has always been performed by men—every day she unsuccessfully tries to ride a boat.Read More »

  • Claude Barras – Ma vie de Courgette AKA My Life as a Zucchini (2016)

    2011-2020AnimationClaude BarrasComedySwitzerland

    Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy. Although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother’s disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his new-found friends, Courgette eventually learns to trust and might find true love.Read More »

  • Paul Hegeman – That Pärt Feeling – the Universe of Arvo Pärt (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryMusicalNetherlandsPaul Hegeman

    The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomenon the man is.Read More »

  • Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert – American Factory (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJulia ReichertSteven BognarUSA

    In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.Read More »

  • Manfred Kirchheimer – Dream of a City (2018)

    Manfred Kirchheimer2011-2020DocumentaryUSA

    Quote:
    Between 1958 and 1960 Walter Hess and Manny Kirchheimer shot black and white 16mm film from Wall Street to midtown New York to the Delaware River. They documented the activities at a huge construction site, street life in Hell’s Kitchen, New York harbor traffic, and rare glimpses of nature. Then the footage was left unedited. In 2017 Kirchheimer (DISCOVERY IN A PAINTING, TALL: THE AMERICAN SKYSCRAPER AND LOUIS SULLIVAN, STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED) took up the challenge of editing it. Once the picture was set he searched for music and sound effects that would mesh with the surrealism of the material. The result is a dynamic and compact symphony of a city.Read More »

  • Affonso Uchoa – Sete anos em Maio AKA Seven Years in May (2019)

    Affonso Uchoa2011-2020BrazilDocumentaryShort Film

    Following the internationally acclaimed film ARÁBIA, Brazilian filmmaker A onso Uchôa presents his new take on social injustice. In the darkness of the night and lit only by a bonfire, a young man delivers a long, sickening confession of a traumatic experience he su ered seven years before. One night, when coming back home from work, he was surprised by a group of cops looking for him at his mother’s house. Taken for another man, Rafael dos Santos was persecuted and violently abused by the police. From that moment on, his life changed forever, as if that night never ended. Read More »

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