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Roberto Rossellini – Fantasia sottomarina AKA Undersea Fantasy (1940)
Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini’s first film is a work of deceptive transparency. In its initial moments the film appears to be…
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Abbas Kiarostami – Lebassi Baraye Arossi AKA Wedding Suit (1976)
لباسی برای عروسی A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister’s…
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Various – Stimulantia (1967)
8 episodes, ranging from experimental to documentary to conventional narrative cinema, made by the most prominent Swedish film directors of…
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Sergey Loznitsa – Krotkaya AKA A Gentle Creature (2017)
Quote: A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she…
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Sergei Parajanov & Dodo Abashidze – Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa AKA The Legend of the Suram Fortress (1985)
Directors Sergei Paradzhanov and Dodo Abashidze resurrected an old Soviet Georgian folktale as the basis for their film The Legend…
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Merzak Allouache – Bab El-Oued City (1994)
Young Boualem just wants a little quiet, a little space to be himself and follow his desires. He works six…
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Toby Fell-Holden – Balcony (2015)
In a neighborhood rife with racial tension, a local girl falls for a recent immigrant who is the victim of…
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Nikita Mikhalkov – Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh AKA At Home Among Strangers, A Stranger Among His Own (1974)
Shilov, a Red Army soldier, has been assigned the task of protecting an armored train car filled with government-owned gold.…
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Philippe Grandrieux – Unrest (2017)
Unrest is the final part of a multidisciplinary trilogy (performances, films, installations) with the central theme of worry. The bodies…
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