2011-2020

  • Ana Lungu – Autoportretul unei fete cuminti AKA Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter (2015)

    Drama2011-2020Ana LunguRomania

    Storyline
    Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a “proper”, bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in Earthquake Engineering, conversations with Alex and Michelle, her two close friends and occasional, eagerly awaited rendezvous’ with Dan, a married man with whom she is romantically involved. After her parents move out of the family apartment into a new house, she decides to get a dog. It is something that she wanted ever since she was a child and now that she lives on her own she can finally fulfill this wish. Written by Ana Lungu

    2015 Bucharest International Film Festival……Best Director, Audience AwardRead More »

  • Sherad Anthony Sanchez – Salvage (2015)

    2011-2020DramaHorrorPhilippinesSherad Anthony Sanchez

    A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives deep in the forest, where more mystery and danger lie in wait.Read More »

  • Nino Basilia – Person No.2 (2020)

    2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryGeorgiaNino Basilia

    An impressive second work of the Georgian director Nino Basilia.

    Loud thoughts of nine women on the existential themes, about the essence of being human, and about the feelings. Each of them performs the act of meeting with herself. Person number one meets person number two, her alter ego. There rises a question: who am I? Where did I come from and where am I going to? The world comes into contact with them through music and lyrics. A path of self-awareness begins, which they also pass through catharsis on the background of various emotions, and which is saturated only with love.Read More »

  • Igor Legarreta – Ilargi Guztiak AKA All the moons (2020)

    Drama2011-2020HorrorIgor LegarretaSpain

    Year 1876. During the final throes of the last Carlist war in Spain, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside a forest. Badly wounded by a bomb and close to death, the girl believes the woman to be an angel who has come to take her to heaven. She soon realizes that in fact, this strange being has actually given her the gift of eternal life…by turning her into a vampire.Read More »

  • Daryne Joshua – Noem My Skollie: Call Me Thief (2016)

    2011-2020African CinemaCrimeDaryne JoshuaDramaSouth Africa

    Directed by Daryne Joshua, “Noem Ma Skollie (Call Me Thief)” is South Africa’s official entry for the foreign language film at the Oscars.

    Based on the life of the film’s scriptwriter, John W. Fredericks, the film tells the story of a young man living in a world of poverty and violence in 1960s Cape Town, before being imprisoned for a petty crime.Read More »

  • Francesca Comencini – Amori che non sanno stare al mondo AKA Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World (2017)

    2011-2020ComedyFrancesca ComenciniItalyRomance

    Claudia and Flavio were passionately in love for a long time. It all ended and things were not easy for her. After many years, their world is adrift. He feels the need to keep on going, down on the ground; she would rather never forget.Read More »

  • Nir Bergman – Yona (2014)

    2011-2020DramaIsraelNir Bergman

    Synopsis: Yona follows the dramatic life story of legendary Israeli poet Yona Wallach. A young woman from the countryside, orphaned by her father, making her first steps in the realm of Hebrew poetry. It’s the early sixties and Wallach’s battle for recognition takes place in a male-dominated environment. With her breakthrough and the inevitable transition to the big city, Yona – constantly testing her own boundaries – suffers from a mental breakdown. Her struggle to resume writing and attain immortality in the canon of Hebrew poetry – the price she was willing to pay for that immortality – is the film’s main plotline.Read More »

  • Ga-eun Yoon – U-ri-deul AKA The World of Us [+ Commentary] (2016) 

    2011-2020DramaGa-eun YoonSouth Korea

    At an age when perhaps friends mean more than moms, 10 year-old Sun is an outcast at school. During summer vacation, she meets Jia, who is new to town. As Sun shows Jia around the neighborhood and they play at each other’s houses and share secrets, they become best friends. However when the new semester starts, Jia notices a strange vibe between Sun and the other kids. Jia tries to get into the cool kids group and starts to distance herself from Sun. Inside the perhaps more complex and delicate world of children than adults, the two girls end up hurting and getting hurt by each other.Read More »

  • Thunska Pansittivorakul – Poo kor karn rai AKA The Terrorists (2011)

    2011-2020DramaPoliticsThailandThunska Pansittivorakul

    Quote:
    The movie is divided into seventeen unrelated segments and is a mixture of both documentary and experimental film genres. By inhabiting the lives of laymen from different parts of Thailand, the movie brings us through blurry trails, distorted memories and recently constructed histories. We unearth missing pieces of the puzzle in our attempt to understand why Thai democracy is still considered backwards and frozen. Are we deceiving ourselves that we are in a democratic society when we are not? The movie begins on a fishing boat, as we observe two boys conversing in an indecipherable tongue. Read More »

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