2021-2030

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In 2017 I invited Jerome Hiler to the Harvard Film Archive to present Cinema Before 1300, an illustrated lecture he had delivered on several occasions whose title and subject intrigued me. A talk on medieval stained glass, accompanied by Hiler’s own still images taken over the years, principally in those cathedrals in France and the UK that today remain among the last repositories of this now lost luminary art and craft. The event that unfolded was mesmerizing and moving, a meditation on stained glass as a popular and devotional art, and as a precursor to cinema.Read More »

Margarethe von Trotta is one of the few German female director icons and is internationally revered as a star director. In 2022 she will celebrate her 80th birthday. Her works are among the most important German films and have written German (film) history. Margarethe von Trotta asserted herself early on in a purely male domain. In 1981 she won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “Die leaden time” and thus started her world career.Read More »

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Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family’s foundations. Sol will embrace the essence of letting go as a release for existence.Read More »

Histoires courtes, the France 2 short films program, gives carte blanche to Bertrand Mandico who brings together three of his short films.

“Rainer, A Vicious Dog in Skull Valley” (2023) 26 min.
Octavia Foss wants to stage a female version of Conan the Barbarian in the theater. She makes a pact with a dog-headed demon to achieve her goals.

“We Barbarians” (2023) 27 min.
On the set of a film in the making, four actresses take turns guiding us. They unknowingly drag us into their damnation.

“The Last Cartoon” (2022) 8 min.
A time, as much future as current, where “cinema will be will be all other and nothing else”. Where, “it will be the last appointment of the flesh”, where “the energy will be cannibal and the sun will reflect to say nothing”. Pessimistic or optimistic is this cinematic pamphlet on art ?Read More »

Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming passion.

5 wins, 35 nominations.Read More »

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Complicated entanglements occur in a border village when an exiled Iranian teacher finds himself helping a refugee Afghan family fleeing the Taliban.Read More »

It is June 2021 and the end of the school year at the Hénin-Beaumont high school. Linda and Irina are best friends. Between TikTok videos and science classes, they confide in each other about their family, their future, and other teenage preoccupations. But Linda has to move house yet again, and will not be here next term. In spite of her mother’s advice, this time she has grown attached to a friend, and their separation will be a painful one. As the summer begins, her heart is sore.Read More »

Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path.

4 wins, 7 nominations.Read More »

About the film:
This film is about haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization. The story departs from a 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade, known as the “Communist Hair Ban”. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.Read More »