Shot with 16mm film stock that expired in 2002—the same year as the state-sponsored anti-Muslim genocide in Gujarat—and filmed amid the anti-CAA protests in Delhi, the filmmaker traces lines and lineages of ancestral memory, poetry, history, songs, and ruins from his birth in 1989.Read More »
During a vicious attack, a young musician and the love of his life are brutally separated from one another. Fifty years later, the musician is summoned to play at the Mongol castle where his beloved has been held.Read More »
Wang Shin-hong is suffering from insomnia. A fortune teller advises the Mandalay businessman, whose car and bulging wallet suggest that business is going pretty well, to spend 14 days in a monastery, living life as a monk and eating an apple a day.Read More »
Reason and passion clash in Lucretius’ life. When he reaches an epiphany, perhaps it is already too late.Read More »
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Representing the passing of time has always been – and continues to be – a major concern for many artists. Argentinian filmmaker María Alvarez makes her contribution by exploring this theme through the lens of cinematic arts. Armed with her camera, she recorded the daily lives of film-lovers in three countries: Argentina, Uruguay and Spain. The outcome, Las Cinéphilas, is a documentary anthology that draws up a portrait of women who do not know each other but share a common passion.Read More »
The film narrates the life of a grieving and guilt-ridden young farmer on his way back from a pilgrimage to Lhasa after he had killed his mother in a tragic.
The film received the Dragons & Tigers Award at the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival.Read More »
“Est-ce une chose douce et tendre, une chose énigmatique, une chose humaine, une chose à nulle autre pareille, une chose fragile ? C’est une chose tissée de mille choses, douces, fragiles, énigmatiques et humaines. Le Journal de septembre est un voyage intérieur qui se déploie jour après jour d’une forme à une autre, glissant peu à peu d’images du quotidien du cinéaste à des séquences plus intimes et plus surréelles.” — Centre de l’Audiovisuel à BruxellesRead More »
A young girl that regularly dresses as a boy falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces ‘her boyfriend’ to her father he becomes skeptical and unmasks the fraud. Even though, strangely, the feelings of the girl persist without shifting, the father does not allow them to ever see the other again. Furious and delusional the ‘boy’ develops an adventurous plan to prove his true ‘masculinity’ to the father of his lover.Read More »
Iris, 17, has been expelled from school and spends the warm days and nights with her two best friends, her cousins, in cramped rooms, playing with her mobile phone or in the empty streets of the city. When Renata, cold and self-confident, enters the picture, Iris is fascinated, and it is not long before they start flirting. But in the area, rumours about Renata’s past are getting stronger.(FILMAFFINITY)Read More »