2001-2010

Going to buy milk from the farmer next-door can be a real drama.

EXTRA 1 :
Intro by Luc Moullet. Col, 5 mn
EXTRA 2
Interview by Jacques Kermabon, col, 14 mn.Read More »

Synopsis
A film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of São João do Rio do Peixe they come to Sítio Araçás, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. With a girl from Araçás as mediator, the residents, in their majority, elderly, tell their life story, marked by popular catholicism, by a hierarchy, by a sense of family and honor – in a world fast disappearing.Read More »

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In her mid-twenties, Jeong-hae is a postal worker who lives a monotonous daily routine. She is kind, detached, and delicate, and accepts being cut off from the outside world as natural. When she takes in a stray cat she happens to remember things about her mother, and when an aspiring writer who comes to the post office expresses interest in her, her unexplained peacefulness is shaken, and hidden trauma begins to make its way to the surface of her emotions.Read More »

A fascinating doco with loads of file footage of the Nazi conception of the cinematic arts.Read More »

Fredrik has everything he could want in life, a girlfriend he loves, he owns a hot dog stand that goes really well, and in addition, he will soon be a father. But happiness does not last forever, Pia decides to leave Frederick and go back to his first true love. Frederick’s world falls apart as he more than any other longs for a child, so he decides to adopt one. Frederick persuade Russian Tatyana who works in his booth to SIMULATE a marriage in order to increase his chances for adoption. But when Frederick meets Milla, who works at the social welfare office, which must approve the adoption, he is in love and everything changes again in Frederick’s life.Read More »

Tanabay is a proud Kazakh war hero and loyal Communist who is pressured into taking a position as a herdsman in a collective farm in the Stalinist era after WWII. The pride and joy of the collective is a beautiful stallion named Gulsary. After Gulsary wins a race, the new commissar of the collective lays claim to the beloved and headstrong horse, which leads to a battle of a wills. Tanabay and Gulsary are both punished and separated for their refusal to bend to the rules of the Stalinist era.Read More »

A collection of 11 short poetic psycho-geographic portraits of cities and spaces from artist Dominique Gonzelez-Foerster, who’s cinematic 2007 solo show at Musée dArt moderne de la Ville de Paris will be supplemented in 2008 by the Unilever commission for the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern (joining Carsten Holler’s slides, Olafur Eliason’s sun, and Doris Salcedo’s crack amongst many other prestigious past projects).Read More »

Vincent Ward weaves drama with documentary to unravel the extraordinary story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman who welcomed the young filmmaker into her home in 1978. Ward made the observational film In Spring One Plants Alone about Puhi’s day-to-day life in the remote Urewera Ranges. By then almost 80, she was obsessively caring for her schizophrenic adult son Niki, whose violent fits terrified her. In this new cinema feature Ward sets out to unravel the mystery that has haunted him for 30 years: Who was Puhi?

And why was she so obsessed with this last remaining son?Read More »

Synopsis:
The film tells the story in a non-linear fashion, with two timelines being depicted simultaneously. Rahul Bose has a dysfunctional marriage with Sameera Reddy who has an extra-marital affair. Rahul tries to reconnect with his long-lost father (played by Mithun Chakraborty), while Sameera dreams of breaking free of her stifling domestic life. Rahul is considered as a failure both in professional and personal lives. However, an honest and simple man, he clings to simple joys of life and memories of his childhood. The back-and-forth movement of the story between two timelines (the present day and Rahul’s childhood) and the arrangement of the sequences make Mithun a mystery man—he could be dead, alive, or, just a figment of Rahul’s imagination.Read More »