Documentary

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.Read More »

A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.Read More »

First decade of 2000. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds lavish parties at his residence in Milan. The political opposition starts speculating that unrestrained sex parties are taking place.Read More »

Vlacils tribute to winter Prague.Read More »

A short documentary about Persepolis by Iranian filmmaker and poet Fereydoun Rahnema.Read More »

Meat tracks the workings of a highly automated packing plant, illustrating important points and problems in the production, transportation, logistics, equipment design and labor management that turns cattle and sheep into consumer goods.Read More »

Det Danske Filminstitut wrote:
An experimental portrait of American jazz pianist Bud Powell. In most of the film, Powell walks the streets of Copenhagen, but there are also excerpts from ‘… a concert recording from Montmartre, where Powell’s fingers and face are studied in a series of beautiful, dark settings while he plays, but without synchronous sound. On the soundtrack, Bud Powell is heard playing, and Dexter Gordon tells a few stories at the beginning and end about Powell and his innovative impact on jazz’Read More »

Pop art documentary faeturing ‘Koe-chan’. She is an idol shop clerk of the large manga shop ‘Mandarake’, popular for her ‘costume-play’.Read More »

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The Maelstrom makes extraordinary artful use of considerable cache of home movies shot in the Netherlands before and during World War II and dealing with the extended Peereboom family. Information is conveyed through subtitles and instead of voice-over, the soundtrack consists of period sound, usually from radio broadcasts, and brooding, disturbing jazz score by Tibor Szemzõ.Read More »