Plot: Set within Chicago’s labyrinth of alleyways, Scrappers is a cinema verite portrait of Otis and Oscar, two scrap metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn and battered pickup trucks. The film shows how globalization, the 2008 financial crisis, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants and widespread scrap metal theft effect these men and their families.Read More »
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From Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza. Initiated by Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, the project was born to give a voice to 22 Gazan filmmakers to tell the untold stories of the current war on film.Read More »
Roberto Santos, when he was a teacher at film school, gathered friends and students to make this movie, an unique work in brazilian filmography due to its kind of collective experimentalism and complicated relations with censorship, since it was produced during the militar dictatorship.
Today it’s very rare.Read More »
In this South Korean omnibus film, four filmmakers – with particular but surprisingly cohesive approaches – introduce us to cinematic universes commanded by the presence of killers executing (or failing to execute) their jobs. From the slightly supernatural to true stories inspired by actual events, our four directors introduce us to their cinematic universes bound by the presence of nighthawks and killers. Dark humor, weapons and blood are part of the deal. “Metamorphosis” by Kim Jong-kwan weaves a revision of a revered horror figure, seductive and terrifying, in an alluring but suspiciously empty bar at night. Read More »
The film is separate into three different shorts. KIDNAP focuses a tomboy’s unrequited love for an anonymous girl dare not speak her name, she can only watch for longing as the object of her affection passes each day. In a desperate bid for intimate communication, the tomboy kidnaps the girl and holds her prisoner in a cramped back street apartment. Slowly relationship develops between them. In MY BELOVED, a loner is only obsesses with guns, he has no place in his life for a girlfriend, focusing all his attention on his Baretta handgun. One night, his gun starts talking to him in a soft feminine voice, demanding the proof of his love. OH G focuses a guy and a girl meet through an ICQ chat room, they search for the real romance that they have never experienced in their lives. This touching tale of first love is played out against the backdrop of the neon world of urban malls and 24 hour convenience stores.Read More »
“Visions” is a collaborative film that consists of ten short films made by female filmmakers from the province of Pontevedra. Ten genuine glimpses into which cinema and art merge into intimate, polyhedral production.
Eva Calvar, Sonia Méndez, Olaia Sendón, Claudia Brenlla, Andrea Zapata-Girau, Begoña M. Santiago, Carme Nogueira, Lara Bacelo, Diana Toucedo and Carla Andrade participated in this collective project.Read More »
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The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. (1) Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet a talented pianist on the way. (2) A mysterious relationship between a little girl, Utagui, who eats songs to live, and an artist who can’t sing anymore. (3) A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. They finally reached a beach in Okinawa and find…? (4) Bastards comes together on a night dance floor for a show.Read More »
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In 2011, the prolonged armed conflict in the Basque Country appears to come to an end. A young woman runs away wanting to cross the border. She arrives in Zubieta, a border village where ancient myths and modern conflicts seem to converge.Read More »
African Metropolis is a compilation of six short fiction films, set in six major African cities, a unique partnership towards new African cinema.
The films from Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi tell urban tales about life in African metropolises. Over 50 percent of the continent’s total population now lives in cities and vital urban cultures are forming and transforming – fast, and with growing complexity. In African cinema, the shift is towards urban stories, with less focus on the traditional, rural Africa that dominated in the past.Read More »