A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.Read More »
2020s
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Ramata-Toulaye Sy – Banel e Adama AKA Banel & Adama (2023)
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Molly Manning Walker – How to Have Sex (2023)
2021-2030DramaMolly Manning WalkerUnited KingdomThree British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery.Read More »
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Bing Wang – Qingchun AKA Youth (Spring) (2023)
Bing Wang2021-2030DocumentaryFranceSynopsis:
Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai – the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnaneses often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanitary rooms, or sometimes in small studios. Time and space to meet is missing them. So, they communicate through QQ, MSN China. They live as adults but they are teenagers.Read More » -
Jun-Pyo Hong – Chun Tae-Il (2021)
2021-2030AnimationDramaJun-Pyo HongSouth KoreaA moving drama depicting the life of a beautiful young man, Jeon Tae-il, a symbolic figure of the Korean labor movement who became a spark of hope for workers’ rights.Read More »
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Claudia Müller – Elfriede Jelinek – Die Sprache von der Leine lassen AKA Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed (2022)
Claudia Müller2021-2030AustriaDocumentaryQuote:
ELFRIEDE JELINEK: “Language Unleashed” Child prodigy, scandal writer, traitor of the fatherland, theatre fury, feminist, model lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, defiler of the nest, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel Prize winner.Read More » -
Yi Tang – Tian xia wu ya AKA All the Crows in the World (2021)
2021-2030Hong KongShort FilmYi Tang18-year-old school girl Shengnan enters a night of adventure in the adults’ world.Read More »
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Simone Bozzelli – Patagonia (2023)
2021-2030DramaItalyQueer Cinema(s)Simone BozzelliTwenty-year-old Yuri lives with his elderly aunt in the rural countryside. At a birthday party he meets Agostino, a wandering children’s entertainer, who promises him the independence Yuri didn’t know he was striving for.Read More »
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Chime (2024)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa2021-2030HorrorJapanThrillerThe life of a schoolteacher is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.Read More »
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Sohn Koo-Yong – Night Walk (2023)
2021-2030DocumentaryExperimentalSohn Koo-YongSouth KoreaSmall nightly monochrome silent landscapes to observe and enter another time to feel how everyday transforms through the gaze.
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This gorgeous landscape film is an invitation to the magical wonders of the night. Sohn Koo-yong’s second feature is a soothing, silent caress for our senses. Composed of a series of deliciously framed still shots and abstract drawings made by the filmmaker himself, superimposed onto the filmed images, it will enthral you with an enchanting ambience and unique lyricism. Without any sound or music, it speaks in a selection of poems by the Seonbi of the Joseon Dynasty that melts into the nightscape.Read More »