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- DirectorTatsumi KumashiroStarsEiji OkudaEiko NagashimaReiko TakashimaTanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsAlana HaimCooper HoffmanSean PennThe story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
- DirectorPeter LiechtiStarsPeter MettlerAlexander TschernekNikola WeisseA hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on site reveals the man committed suicide by self-imposed starvation. Who was this man? Why did he kill himself in such a manner? Inspired by this true event and by the novella 'Until I Am a Mummy' by Shimada Masahiko, Insects sensuously evokes the mysterious man's last days.
- DirectorAndreas PantzisStarsGeorges CorrafaceDimitris VelliosValeria GolinoLonging for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them.
- DirectorSamuel BenchetritStarsFrançois CluzetSergi LópezMarie TrintignantInsurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: Arraigning for John Lennon and Janis Joplin's "second coming".
- DirectorJon MoritsuguStarsAmy DavisDesi del ValleBonnie SteigerWest Side Story meets Rumble in the Bronx meets A Clockwork Orange. Bizarre tale of London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket who lives in a dysfunctional family home where the mother keeps popping and sexually playing with her other child, X-Ray, a member of a gang of Mods who are constantly at war with a gang of Asian Bikers. Amidst this turmoil, London and her soul mate M16 search for meaning in a phantasmagoria without it.
- DirectorStavros TsiolisStarsTassos DenegrisKonstantinos TzoumasKaterina TsioliA middle-aged sociology professor quits his job, leaves his family and lives in a secluded home. His only motive to keep going seems to be his desire to find an unknown woman who appears in a photograph.
- DirectorAntoinette BoulatStarsLou LamprosTom MercierCarmen KassovitzMarion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve at the rhythm of their wanderings through the city, like a journey through the night.
- DirectorClint MorrillStarsClint MorrillClint Alberta, as Clint Star, looks deep inside his friends and family - and perhaps himself too. But what is inside?
- DirectorTôru KameiStarsHidekazu MashimaSayuri OyamadaYûko NakamuraMashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each other in a 'double-suicide room' in Nishi-Shinjuku on a pre-arranged day. They are in love and planning to die together.
- DirectorKamen KalevStarsChristo ChristovOvanes TorosianSaadet AksoyThrough Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.
- DirectorJuraj JohanidesMarko SkopStarsLubor DohnalMarián FiladelfiIvan MartinkaThis film pays a tribute to Elo Havetta, 1938-1975, a solitary director, an author of only two feature films - Celebration in the Botnical Garden and Field Lilies - that belong to the best of the Slovak cinema. At their time, they brought playfulness and spontaneity, on which the authors of the documentary base their happening - a journey to the director's grave in the search for his legacy.
- DirectorElo HavettaStarsSlavoj UrbanJirí SýkoraNina DivískováThis colorful "fairy"-tale is about the need of miracles in life and of letting the charms of nature, where every single particle is in constant motion, take over as if in an impressionist painting. It is a mosaic built of multiple stories like Pierre's. His arrival disturbs the peace of the wine-growing village of Bábindol but at the same time he shows its inhabitants how to really enjoy life.
- DirectorXiming ZhangStarsChao CaoDejun GaoSiqi GuoPoet and photographer Ren Hang was renowned for his sensual images of Chinese youth, and in I've Got a Little Problem, Zhang chronicles the artist's struggle with the depression, public morality, and painful criticism that sent his life spiraling out of control.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsSybille SchmitzJean GallandIlse AbelThe body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.
- DirectorLiang ZhaoArtistic documentary about the aftermaths of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. Some images can be disturbing.
- DirectorHaris RaftogiannisStarsAera Patera"Reality does not exist" is the motto of the chaotic and open music band of Aera Patera. Now that some of the band members, tired by the endless chaos, demand some structure, Jimmy - the band's leader - has to compromise or to battle once more with the reality "that does not exist". Airland is a handmade, independent documentary. A mixed-technique film about chaos, creation, deconstruction, escapism. A film about failure, about being mistaken.
- DirectorAraceli LemosStarsAbigael LomaHasmine KillipEirini InglesiA young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.
- DirectorLaila Pakalnina"We go to people's homes, ask them to go outside and we film them through their own windows - this is how we are making films about people, their homes, and about filmmaking." Pakalnina and her cinematographer position their selected subjects and ask them to hold still for a minute outside their homes, while they film them from the inside, through the (usually closed) windows, but sometimes also through open ones or through glass doors. An experimental hybrid documentary that celebrates the home environment in a highly original poetic fashion.
- DirectorSusumu Hani
- DirectorBogdan DziworskiStarsJerzy OrlowskiDespite his disability, Jerzy Orlowski leads a normal life as a sportsman, an artist and a family man. The lack of both arms has not stopped him from being physically strong.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsTimothy LearyEd EmshwillerFranz FuenstlerA chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsTurgay AydinArzu BazmanEsra Bezen BilginIn an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsKarl Wallner
- DirectorMarek PiwowskiThe story of four institutionalized girls, staging Cinderella and the Prince. Interviews of the girls priorities in life.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsZoë LundBogeyAlbert SinkysA timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.
- DirectorAntónio ReisStarsEvangelina Gil DelgadoJaime FernandesA documentary about a deceased psychiatric patient, Jaime Fernandes.
- DirectorYvan LagrangeStarsValérie FavreYvan Lagrange
- DirectorAliona van der HorstStarsHarry de WitBoris RyzhyAn investigation into why one of Russia's most promising young poets killed himself at the age of 29.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsRené RupnikMain character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of flats. Ever since his early youth women with big breasts have fascinated him, because they symbolise a kind of earth mother to him. He has never had an especially close relationship with his own mother; she was too 'bony' for him. Object of Rene's fantasy is the actress Senta Berger, to him everything a woman should be. Standing by the blackboard and explaining the mathematical laws of sine and cosine ('sinus' is bosom in Latin), Rene sings the praises of the female curves and those of Santa Berger in particular. Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl let the former teacher speak freely about his obsessions and desires, intercutting his monologues with scenes from the protagonist's day-to-day life.
- DirectorYvan LagrangeStarsJohn DobrynineClaire Wauthion
- DirectorYvan LagrangeStarsJohn Dobrynine
- DirectorAlexandra GuleaStarsAlexandru CzuliRemus MargineanuClaudiu AbabeiMatei, a young boy on the verge of adolescence is fascinated by the past of the Transylvanian mining region he lives in. Upon his return from an initiation journey filled with rich discoveries through the big city, he faces the loss of innocence when confronted with the death of his grandfather.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsAndreas SinanosAnna VagenaNasos KatakouzinosO Megalos Erotikos (Magnus Eroticus) is a song cycle of Manos Hadjidakis. In the film the camera tries to capture the atmosphere of the music. An optical voyage in Athens, a free play of image and sound.
- DirectorYvan LagrangeStarsBrigitte ArielYvan Lagrange
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsRichard GereBrooke AdamsSam ShepardA hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsHarry GlickenWerner HerzogKatia KrafftMaurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the world's volcanoes. Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage.
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsErnst SchönmannFranz HolzschuhErich WögererIn conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsPaula HutterováVladimir KundrátRusena MachaloyáLooks at two communities on either side of the Czech - Austrian border. There's an elderly man in Austria looking for a new wife, and he meets a lone single woman on the Czech side of the border.
- DirectorClaire SimonStarsSwann ArlaudEmmanuelle DevosChristophe PaouThe relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
- DirectorBogdan Dziworski
- DirectorMarcel LozinskiStarsTomasz LozinskiAn energetic six-year-old boy talks to elderly strangers relaxing in the park. He confronts his childish knowledge of the world with their life-long experience.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DanielFernand DelignyJosée ManentiStarsYves GuignardRichard BrougèreNuma DurandYves is the main character of this film. In 1950, he was considered as incurable. The only solution for him seemed to lie in an endless stay in a mental institution. Fernand Deligny who has always shown distrust for arbitrary decisions started to look after him. In 1962, Yves became the central character of a film shot for two years in the Cevennes. A film beautiful like a Murnau, Jacques Rivette.
- DirectorEvald SchormA documentary about hospital patients, staff, and doctors.
- DirectorMarian DoraStarsUlli LommelThomas GoerschCarina PalmerA formidable descend to human decay.
- DirectorYukio MishimaStarsYukio MishimaYoshiko TsuruokaA Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental film by Stan Brakhage which captures various footage of trees, birds, and the burial of one bird.
- DirectorRobert BreerAn experimental short film from Robert Breer with various colorful animations.
- DirectorMieczyslaw WaskowskiIn this experimental short film, paint changes dynamically of shapes and colors against a musical background, conforming an abstract, suggestive and even mystical experience.
- DirectorVirginie DespentesCoralie Trinh ThiStarsRaffaëla AndersonKaren LancaumeCéline BeugnotTwo young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsLeslie CheungMaggie CheungAndy LauA man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
- DirectorKeja KramerStarsStephen Dwoskin
- DirectorPanagiotis EvangelidisChip and Ovi met in an orphanage near the city of Kluj-Napoca in Romania when they were teenagers. Ovi was born with disabilities in his arms and Chip has a severely damaged leg from polio. They've been together for about a year and a half trying to make it, facing poverty and social discrimination, and currying their dreams and their inner demons.
- DirectorJean-Luc MelloStarsMyriam Zoulias
- DirectorThirza Cuthand
- DirectorVahagn KhachatryanAren MalakyanThrough four protagonists aspiring to fulfil their dreams, three contrasting visions of Armenia are sketched out: there is the lift operator in a hospital, a kind of remnant of urban Sovietism, who wants to travel into space; the farmer in search of a perfect wife, revealing a rural social structure that is still dominated by the patriarchy; and finally, the young feminist and queer girls, who simply want to live their lives, enamoured with emancipation and symbolising the infiltration of Western societal changes, which are also bitterly contested on this side of the Ararat. The filmmakers observe without judgment, with precise framing at times revealing a certain amusement. Together they have made an elegant and visionary first feature-length film, conveying the mutation of a country and, implicitly, the questions faced by generations of young adults caught between their desire for change and their dreams of revolution. 5 DREAMERS AND A HORSE finishes on scenes of a beginning conflict and the worrying and ambiguous image of a crowd gathered on a public square... What does the 5th dreamer want?
- DirectorHsin-yao Huang"Bei-Jiang-Qi" is short for the three townships of Beimen, Jiangjun, and Qigu off the coast of Tainan County. Director HUANG has stayed here since 2005 after having moved more than 20 times. In 2009, he began to document the area. It took him 12 years to accumulate footage of the ever-changing times, yet it seems nothing has changed. The film presents an immense record of open landscapes and the footprints of human activities. The two are independent yet codependent of each other. In the film, HUANG tries to portray a way of life. When the camera is still, every movement condenses into one. In between different takes, moments sometimes suspend as if captured by a still photo. Although it took 12 years to film A Silent Gaze, this is not a work about time. Instead, it is about timelessness. The moment presented on the screen may be a present moment, may be a moment of the past, or perhaps a moment in the future. And at every moment, one wonders whose moment it is. As a part of a discussion on memory and detemporality, this work comes in another 3-channel video installation as further dialogue with this single-channel video.
- DirectorJan SimanekPetr ZárubaDocumentary follows four years in the life of Adam Ondra, one of the best rock climbers in the world, as he prepares for and competes in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
- DirectorMiléna TrivierStarsIsabelle DumontCan a picture contain all the beauty of a flower? Between technology and emotions, Algorithms of Beauty questions the limits of our gaze when faced with AI images.
- DirectorGilles AubryStarsYounes BoundirImane Zoubai
- DirectorRyan MaddoxStarsCallum NeedhamDavid K. WhitingAn unsettling horror parable, Fungus is a snapshot of terror for a son and his father, whose past crimes must be paid for in blood. As father and son check their daily harvest, they encounter a mythical creature of the woodland, who is hunting them in return.
- DirectorMike AlcazarenJosephine AtienzaAlan HilarioThis black-and-white film presents an impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis.
- DirectorGiulia AmatiA 10-year-old boy for more than a year as he confronted a decision which potentially would have a huge impact not just for his own future but for that of his island.
- DirectorErik BullotComposed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange. A voice from the future tells us how, in the past, men struggled to describe, transcribe, then imitate the song of birds, perhaps in the hope of communicating with them. Humankind has often delighted in this music of nature and, mingling admiration and appropriation, has attempted to adapt it to the parameters of the human world. Two men with similar features explore the history of these endeavours, collecting documents, interviewing musicians, gathering demonstrations. Musical scores, some ancient, others original, have sought to mimic these acrobatic melodies produced by organisms with superhuman abilities. Exceptional voices manage to produce sublime figures or tones approaching a bestial texture or pitch, but the resemblance between the two sleuths is always more evident than the affinity between these performances and the agile songs of our winged friends. Even when the musicologist Peter Szöke records them and plays them back slowly, their mystery remains intact. Despite their seriousness, these desperate attempts have a certain absurdity that lends the whole venture a comical touch - black humour was present right from the start, when the narrator announced the sixth extinction as a fait accompli. At the end of this journey, it turns out that birdsong is inimitable, and humankind is amiably returned to the vanity of its desire for power, the driving force of so many works of art and yet the mother of all destruction.
- DirectorLudwing IlioRoxlee
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsHilda KoronelBembol RocoLou Salvador Jr.Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya.
- DirectorHilal BaydarovStarsRana AsgarovaOrkhan IskandarliHuseyn NasirovThe story follows a soldier who returns from war and finds everyone in his village has rotted away due to a mysterious illness. The only survivor, his sister, is also slowly rotting, with only a dog to keep her company.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsGeorg FriedrichHans-Michael RehbergFlorentina Elena PopFollow-up to Ulrich Seidl's previous film, Rimini. It focuses on Richie Bravo's brother, Ewald.
- DirectorAlessandro ComodinStarsPier Luigi MecchiaUlisse BuosiTomaso CecottoA policeman in a small village in northern Italy whose boring days barely conceal a growing melancholy in the town a world whose contours are just barely discernible.
- DirectorLukasz KowalskiStarsJoerg GiesslerBlack docu-comedy from the largest pawn shop in Poland. Times are tough, bankruptcy looms, but then the two choleric proprietors get a bright idea. A hilarious, heartwarming film.
- DirectorJana Sevciková
- DirectorJet LeycoStarsAmante PulidoLance RaymundoShielbert ManuelThe routine of the quaint rural town of Matangtubig is broken with the discovery of a girl's remains, defiled in an open grass field, another girl, missing. Claims for justice and a search ensues, the national media turns its attention, as the town is put on trial for the secrets it keeps, a local fisherman struggles with his conscience to admitting as witness. The townsfolk become entities for decency and sham, attempting to divert attention, the town put up its yearly festival by the lake, unknowing of a sleeping evil that has come to claim them.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsHarvey KeitelMaia MorgensternErland JosephsonAn exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
- DirectorLucien Castaing-TaylorVerena ParavelFocuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.
- DirectorMarusya SyroechkovskayaStarsMarusya SyroechkovskayaKirill MorevTogether, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.
- DirectorAliona van der HorstDutch filmmaker Aliona van der Horst is given an inheritance of 6 square meters of a small, wooden house in a village outside Moscow. She embarks on a journey back into the secrets of her mother's Russian past.