2011-2020

“Styx” depicts the transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip.Read More »

Plot: The leader of Yakuza clan Tatsumi dies and selects his heir to be his estranged son, who is a trans woman named Nana. Nana, a hostess is reluctant to join, but has little choice as the rival Hojo clan starts extorting the bar.Read More »

African Metropolis is a compilation of six short fiction films, set in six major African cities, a unique partnership towards new African cinema.

The films from Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi tell urban tales about life in African metropolises. Over 50 percent of the continent’s total population now lives in cities and vital urban cultures are forming and transforming – fast, and with growing complexity. In African cinema, the shift is towards urban stories, with less focus on the traditional, rural Africa that dominated in the past.Read More »

Day Is Done becomes, among other things, a poetic but also wryly humorous study of the
selfish artist trying to play the indifferent God, but ending up revealing himself as all too
human. (…) Day Is Done contains images of ravishing though unconventional urban beauty.
(Screen Daily, 14.02.11)Read More »

The impact of Ney Matogrosso’s performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the 20th century to the present. An audiovisual anthology, all composed of archival images. The best way to get to know Ney is to be with him on stage.Read More »

“For heaven’s sake, what a question!” exclaims the mother as her son begins the conversation; they had avoided one another for decades.
The film traces a reencounter between the director and his aged parents. It is an attempt at a personal revision of the past. In the process, a new view of his parents emerges, which also provides again and again insight into a bygone era. The story of their marriage, however, borders on a classic drama, leaving us feeling forlorn and miserable even today.Read More »

Béla Tarr’s hypnotic parable about the trials of human existence, filmed in thirty shots, is an apparently simple record of a week in the life of the farmer and pálinka distiller Ohlsdorfer. The minimalist drama opens with a brief text about the anecdote that Nietzsche went insane in 1889 in Turin after seeing a coachman brutally beat a horse. The introduction ends with the remark that we do not know what happened to the horse. The Turin Horse (2011) answers that question.Read More »

Synopsis:
A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter.Read More »

Birthday of a lonely woman. Her husband died years ago and her sons left her alone. She expects only a simple telephone call but nobody calls. She makes special meals but nobody visits. She prays all day but they are not heard.Read More »