2010s

  • Agnieszka Smoczynska – Fuga AKA Fugue (2018)

    2011-2020Agnieszka SmoczynskaDramaMysteryPoland

    Alicja has no memory and no knowledge about how she lost it. In two years, she manages to build a new, independent self, away from home. She doesn’t want to remember the past. So, when her family finds her, she is forced to fit into the roles of a mother, daughter and wife, surrounded by what seem to be complete strangers. What remains once you forget you loved someone? Is it necessary to remember the emotion of love in order to feel happiness?Read More »

  • Arthur Borgnis – Eternity Has No Door of Escape: Encounters with Outsider Art (2018)

    2011-2020Arthur BorgnisDocumentaryFrance

    Icarus Films wrote:
    “Outsider art” challenges established historical categories and transcends artistic movements. A translation of the French term art brut, a phrase coined by the painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet in the aftermath of World War II, this label was applied to works produced by artists suffering from mental illness, practitioners of Spiritism, and self-taught visionaries. Their work compels viewers to question aesthetic and cultural norms, and the place attributed to those with disabilities in our society.Read More »

  • Zelimir Zilnik – Destinacija Serbistan AKA Logbook Serbistan (2015)

    2011-2020DocumentarySerbiaZelimir Zilnik

    Screening 1
    22 April – 6 May, 2018

    As part of Želimi Žilnik exhibition “Shadow Citizens”, more than 20 Žilnik’s films will be available for online viewing. Many of these are rarely screened, and all are being made available online to this extent for the first time. The films trace various periods and different working conditions within Žilnik’s practice. They are organized in five sections, each available for viewing during the exhibition for two weeks.Read More »

  • Siew Hua Yeo – A Land Imagined (2018)

    2011-2020DramaMysterySiew Hua YeoSingapore

    Winner of the top prize at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, Yeo Siew Hua’s third feature is a clever, evocative shape-shifter that begins as a kind of dreamy noir and ends up a sober, politically incisive work of social realism. First we follow gruff, disenchanted detective Lok (Peter Yu) as he searches for Wang (Liu Xiaoyi), a missing construction worker from mainland China. We’re then ushered back in time to see Wang’s life before his disappearance—and what had seemed a typical noir scenario instead turns out to be far more in line with reality as we know it today.Read More »

  • Guillaume Brac – L’île au trésor (2018)

    2011-2020ComedyDocumentaryFranceGuillaume Brac

    A summer on a leisure island in the Paris region. Land of adventure, drag and transgression for some, place of refuge and escape for others. From its fee-paying beach to its hidden recesses, the exploration of a kingdom of childhood, resonating with the tumults of the world.Read More »

  • Guillaume Brac – Contes de juillet AKA July Tales (2017)

    2011-2020DramaFranceGuillaume Brac

    Set in Paris on a hot summer day, this joyful and funny two-part film follows five young men and five young women where the boys cause trouble for the girls. In the first part, colleagues Milena and Lucie go Sunday swimming in a public pool. The incessant flirtation of lifeguard Jean disrupts their burgeoning friendship. In the second part, Hanne, a young Norwegian student, just wants to have a nice time with her friend Salomé on the national day, but she has to fend off the attention of three men while not upsetting her friend, who has taken a liking to one of the men.Read More »

  • Måns Månsson & Hongqi Li – Stranded in Canton (2014)

    2011-2020DocumentaryDramaHongqi LiMåns MånssonSweden

    Congolese democracy entrepreneur Lebrun takes us on a tangled, tender and cruel adventure to finalise a Chinese T-shirt deal which is turning sour. Between documentary and fiction, this tragicomedy sketches the outlines of a world without the West.Read More »

  • Radu Potcoavã – Vara s-a sfârsit AKA Summer’s Over (2016)

    2011-2020DramaRadu PotcoavãRomania

    Synopsis
    Two boys meet during a summer vacation in the late ’90s in a romanian town located on the Danube shore, a few days before the summer eclipse. They become close friends, until one of their actions will cause powerful consequences.Read More »

  • Micaela Rueda – UIO: Sácame a Pasear AKA Take Me for a Ride (2016)

    2011-2020DramaEcuadorMicaela RuedaQueer Cinema(s)

    Quote:
    High school can be horrible, especially when your classmates make you feel like a freak. But sometimes that pain only means that finding the person who gets you is all the sweeter. Loner Sara is in her last year of high school and is miserable. She is shunned by the girls in her class for being “weird” and spends her lunches smoking in a hiding place behind the school. That is, until the new girl, Andrea, invades her hideout one day. Andrea and Sara fall for each other instantly, bonding over their love of books and solitude. Things might actually start to look up for Sara, but then the world intrudes and threatens their happiness. Can their love survive homophobic classmates and parents?Read More »

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