2011-2020

  • Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – 36 (2012)

    2011-2020ArthouseExperimentalNawapol ThamrongrattanaritThailand

    6 is the number of shots on an analogue roll of film. It’s also the number of shots in this film. Yet it’s not a strict film, but the playful quest of a young photographer for the photos that disappeared on her computer: a whole year’s worth, including one of a challenging encounter.

    The title 36 refers to the roll of film in the filmmaker’s old-fashioned analogue still camera. Each roll had 36 photos and it was always a surprise to find out after it had been developed what was on the negatives. Often the photos didn’t have much to do with each other, and often he didn’t know when and why he had taken a picture.Read More »

  • Boonsong Nakphoo – Scene and Life (2018)

    2011-2020ArthouseBoonsong NakphooDramaThailand

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    A country boy and his girlfriend, an old man in the paddy field, young students and traditional rice. A busy teacher and his ignorant student, an old father who is more worthless than a old wood house, a father and his little son, a mess in a new house, a man who looking for his wife, and many touched stories and characters happened in the village, Wang Pi Kul. The village was an inspiration and a location of shooting “Poor People the Great” and “Village of Hope” that were directed by Boonsong Nakphoo.Read More »

  • Ville Jankeri – Pussikaljaelokuva AKA Sixpack (2011)

    2011-2020ComedyFinlandVille Jankeri

    Pussikaljaelokuva shows us a, particularly trying, day in the life of three marginalized young men: Marsalkka (Jussi Nikkilä), Henninen (Eero Milonoff) and Lihis (Ylermi Rajamaa). They are just out to enjoy a nice summer’s day with the intention of playing yahtzee, but things don’t quite go their way. They have their run-ins with a recently deceased neighbor, uninterested under aged girls and the police. Being chronically broke, they even manage to flub a courtesy visit with the intention of loaning some drinking assets. Even their attempts at leaving Kallio prove utterly futile.
    Kallio, a district of Helsinki, is the main setting of the film, and some would argue the film is a contemporary love letter to it. Finnish critics have especially praised the film’s loving depiction of Kallio.
    Pussikaljaelokuva is a comedy with nary a plot, driven by characters and dialogue… And the power of friendship.Read More »

  • Isold Uggadottir – Andið eðlilega AKA And Breathe Normally (2018)

    Drama2011-2020IcelandIsold Uggadottir

    Two women’s lives will intersect while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.Read More »

  • Sebastián Cordero – Europa Report (2013)

    2011-2020Sci-FiSebastián CorderoThrillerUSA

    An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter’s fourth largest moon.Read More »

  • Juan Daniel F. Molero – Videofilia: y otros síndromes virales AKA Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) (2015)

    2011-2020ExperimentalJuan Daniel F. MoleroPeru

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    In this ‘comedia tragedia’, multi-talent Juan Daniel F. Molero takes us on a digital trip down all the perfidious byways of ‘the interwebz’. Peruvian schoolgirl Luz looks a lot more innocent than she is. She meets Junior online, who spends most of his days gaming in Internet cafés. His ambition is earn a living making amateur porn. Junior, obsessed by Mayan predictions of the end of the world, does everything you are not supposed to do with Google Glass. It is immediately clear that his seduction of the lovely Luz will have bad consequences. But for whom? Read More »

  • Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Die Tomorrow (2017)

    2011-2020ArthouseNawapol ThamrongrattanaritThailand

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    Are you afraid of death? According to statistics, two people on earth die each second. Die Tomorrow zeroes in on the last day of its protagonists, each of whom have no idea of their fate. The film picks up on six everyday situations and turns them into moving stories. With true lightness of touch, director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit forges shots that play out over considerable time and then combines them with documentary-like interview footage, news reports, sound recordings, statistics and archive material, thus creating an elaborate essay. Read More »

  • Rubin Stein – Tin & Tina (2013)

    2011-2020HorrorRubin SteinShort FilmSpain

    Tin and Tina are not eating the purée tonight.Read More »

  • Kohki Hasei – Blanka (2015)

    2011-2020DramaKohki HaseiPhilippines

    Abandoned in the shabby urban slums of Manila, the 11-year-old street urchin, Blanka, struggles for survival in a cruel world to succeed in her ultimate goal: to create the best family money can buy.Read More »

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