2011-2020

  • Paul Negoescu – Povestea unui pierde-vara AKA The Story of a Summer Lover (2018)

    Paul Negoescu2011-2020ComedyDramaRomania

    Storyline
    Petru is a professor of mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and leads a carefree life. He’s in an open relationship with Irina, who overlooks that he sleeps with other women from time to time. But once Irina gets pregnant, Petru is forced to change his lifestyle and grow up, even he’s 42. One of his friends, who was always there for him, decides to write a book about his story. Written by noverbian (IMDB)

    Awards
    2019 Romanian Union of Filmmakers………………………..Best ScreenplayRead More »

  • María Aparicio – Las Calles AKA Streets (2016)

    2011-2020ArgentinaDramaMaría Aparicio

    In a village whose streets have no names, Julia, the teacher, gets her students involved in a project: interviewing its inhabitants, discovering their stories, and using them to name the streets.Read More »

  • Johnnie To – Daan gyun naam yu II AKA Don’t Go Breaking My Heart II (2014)

    Johnnie To2011-2020ComedyHong KongRomance

    Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To indulges his silly side with this hilariously inventive sequel to his hit romantic comedy, two former lovers find themselves irresistibly drawn back together — despite the fact that each is engaged to someone else.

    Nowadays the stellar universe of Chinese popular film is filled with romantic comedies full of sap, déjà vu, and worn-out clichés. But the proliferation of these poorly executed star vehicles doesn’t mean that the genre is tired out. In the hands of a master like Johnnie To, the rom-com has plenty of life yet. In Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, To’s sequel to his 2011 hit, he combines cinematic wit, brilliant dialogue, and inventive ideas, taking the genre into fresh new territory.Read More »

  • Rudolf Thome – Ins Blaue AKA Into the Blue (2012)

    Rudolf Thome2011-2020DramaGermany

    Quote:
    Retired filmmaker Abraham Rabenthal (Vadim Glowna) is producing the directorial début feature (titled Ins Blaue) for his daughter Nike (Alice Dwyer), and they film around Neapolitan locales with their cast and crew. Nike’s film is about three young women travelling in a camper van through Italy and having individual adventures with men along the way. Eva hooks up with a monk, Josephine with a mute fisherman, and Laura, an old philosopher. After a bank rejects Abraham’s application for further funding, costs need to be cut, so two of the male characters – the monk and the fisherman, are played by the same cast member Wilhelm, and the old philosopher, by Abraham himself. But that’s when things get more complicated…Read More »

  • Dea Kulumbegashvili – Léthé (2016)

    Dea Kulumbegashvili2011-2020DramaFranceShort Film

    By the river of oblivion, a lonely horsemen passes through a village where children play with hidden desires, adults are indulged in a celebration and violence and love are instinctive parts of life.Read More »

  • Dom Pedro – Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango (2013)

    2011-2020DocumentaryDom PedroFrance

    Quote:
    Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango by Angolan filmmaker Dom Pedro explores the expression of Tango’s Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango. Tango was a reflection of the social life of the slaves that were taken to South America – including Argentina and Uruguay – mostly from central Africa, particularly from the former Kongo Kingdom. Director Dom Pedro reveals the depth of the footprints of the African music on the tango, through this rich movie combining musical performances and interviews from many tango fans and historians in Latin America and Europe, including the renowned Argentinean pianist Juan Carlos Caceres.Read More »

  • Tulapop Saenjaroen – A Room with a Coconut View (2018)

    Tulapop Saenjaroen2011-2020ExperimentalThailand

    “A Room with a Coconut View” tells a story of Kanya, a tour guide and hotel rep automated voice, who leads her foreign automated-voice guest Alex through a deceptively aestheticised beach town in the east of Thailand. Dissatisfied by the sanitised, touristic images, Alex decides to explore alone. Local corruption becomes intertwined with the history of Thai cinema, and Alex begins to question how images have been used to mediate his understanding of the world.Read More »

  • Michihito Fujii – The Brightest Roof in the Universe (2020)

    2011-2020DramaJapanMichihito Fujii

    Fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She seems him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distracted with that development. The one reliable part of her life is the calligraphy class she attends, but then she runs into a woman.Read More »

  • Min-Wei Ting – I’m Coming Up (2016)

    2011-2020DocumentaryMin-Wei TingSingapore

    A documentation of the interior of a Singaporean tower block, from bottom to top.Read More »

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