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Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller – Cut (2013)
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Ben Wheatley – Free Fire (2016)
2011-2020Ben WheatleyComedyCrimeUnited KingdomQuote:
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival.Read More » -
Manuela de Laborde – As Without So Within (2016)
2011-2020ExperimentalManuela de LabordeUSAConceptually informed by the artist’s active filmgoing, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN takes as its point of departure prop sculptures which are transformed both through hybrid techniques of framing, lighting, and superimposition and by being projected in an enclosed, silent architectural space. (TIFF)Read More »
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Händl Klaus – Kater AKA Tomcat (2016)
2011-2020AustriaDramaHändl KlausQueer Cinema(s)Quote:
Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna’s vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of friends. An unexpected and inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly shakes up the relationship and calls everything into question – the blind spot that resides in all of us.Read More » -
Mohsen Makhmalbaf – The Gardener (2012)
2011-2020DocumentaryDramaIranMohsen MakhmalbafSynopsis:
The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they don’t know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith’s birth – Iran.Read More » -
Gust Van den Berghe – Lucifer (2014)
2011-2020ArthouseDramaGust Van Den BergheMexicoOn his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, where elderly Lupita and her granddaughter Maria live. Lupita’s brother Emanuel pretends he’s paralyzed so he can drink and gamble while the two women tend to the sheep. Lucifer senses an opportunity and plays the miraculous healer. He forces Emanuel to walk again, seduces Maria and makes Lupita doubt about her faith. He didn’t bring bad luck, he only illuminated the line between good and evil, where it didn’t exist before.Read More »
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Hanna Sköld – Granny’s Dancing on the Table (2015)
2011-2020DramaHanna SköldSwedenEini grows up isolated from society in the woods together with her controlling and abusive father. Stories about her granny and Eini’s invincible fantasy enables her to create a world within, from which she can draw her strength to survive. Read More »
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Raymond Depardon – 8e étage (2014)
2011-2020DocumentaryFranceRaymond DepardonShort FilmQuote:
On the eighth floor, Raymond Depardon filmed a minute of silence with eight personalities who worked for the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William Eggleston, Takeshi Kitano, Ron Mueck, Jean Michel Alberola, Agnes Varda and Misha Gromov.Read More » -
Mauro Herce – Dead Slow Ahead (2015)
2011-2020DocumentaryDramaFranceMauro HerceQuote:
For over two months, Mauro Herce and his crew travelled aboard the freighter My Fair Lady, shooting 14-16 hours a day as it made it laborious journey from Ukraine to New Orleans. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, Dead Slow Ahead detaches itself from reality in favour of setting a science fiction, dystopian tone. Welding disparate images and foreboding sounds from deep within the labyrinthine corridors of the ship, Herce has transformed what could have been a dull documentation of life aboard the ship and imbued it with an otherworldly sense of wonder.Read More »








