• Jan Schmidt-Garre – Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up (2010)

    2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyJan Schmidt-Garre

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    Andreas Gursky (born 1955) is one of the foremost contemporary photographers. The film team accompanied him for two years during the creation of his work » Hamm, Bergwerk Ost «. From the first viewings of the motive to actually taking the photographs and then digitally processing the final image, the film traces the course of the photograph to its final destination in the collection of the Ukrainian collector Victor Pinchuk. In an amenable and open manner, Gursky himself, along with experts and mentors such as Werner Spies and Hilla Becher, introduces us to the technical and aesthetic approach to his art.Read More »

  • Maura Delpero – Vermiglio (2024)

    2021-2030DramaItalyMaura Delpero

    In four seasons nature completes its cycle. A girl can become a woman. A belly can swell and become a creature. One can lose the path that led safely home, one can sail seas towards unknown lands. In four seasons one can die and be reborn. Vermiglio tells of the last year of the Second World War in a large family and how, by a paradox of fate, with the arrival of a refugee soldier it loses its peace at the very moment in which the world finds its own.Read More »

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Kuraudo AKA Cloud (2024) (HD)

    2021-2030ActionHorrorJapanKiyoshi Kurosawa

    Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.Read More »

  • Serge Bourguignon – Les dimanches de Ville d’Avray AKA Sundays and Cybèle (1962)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaFranceSerge Bourguignon

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    After killing a child on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl who has been dumped by her father at a boarding school. Posing as her father, Pierre contrives to meet the girl every Sunday, to play with her and perhaps recover his memory. The innocent friendship is misread by nearly everyone, even people who know Pierre well. A classic of old French art films.Read More »

  • Anders Thomas Jensen – De grønne slagtere AKA The Green Butchers (2003)

    Drama2001-2010Anders Thomas JensenComedyDenmark

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    Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss’ arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.Read More »

  • Mat Kirkby – The Phone Call (2013)

    2011-2020DramaMat KirkbyShort FilmUSA

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    This Oscar-award winning short film follows Heather (Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water, Blue Jasmine), a shy lady who works at a helpline call center. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.

    Winner of Best Short Film, Live Action at the Academy Awards. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival.Read More »

  • Yasuzô Masumura – Onna no issho AKA A Woman’s Life (1962)

    1961-1970DramaJapanYasuzô Masumura

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    Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family.
    One of many adaptations of “Onna no isshō”, this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.Read More »

  • Alexandre Astruc – Une vie AKA End of Desire (1958)

    1951-1960Alexandre AstrucDramaFrance

    Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all. The latter gives birth to a baby girl before leaving the house. Six years later, Julien has a new mistress, Gilberte de Fourcheville. Jeanne puts up with this new ordeal bravely. However Gilbert’s husband surprises the two lovers in a caravan and, in a rage, hurls them over the edge of a cliff.Read More »

  • Soda Jerk – Hello Dankness (2022)

    2021-2030AustraliaExperimentalPoliticsSoda Jerk

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    Hello Dankness is a political fable that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021, and the mythologies and lore that took root around it. Taking form as a suburban stoner musical, the film follows a neighborhood through these years as consensus reality disintegrates into conspiracy and other contagions. What unfolds is a rogue retelling of history in which hotdogs debate the culture wars, trashcans preach QAnon, zombies rally for revolution, and real events are refashioned as Broadway bangers from Cats, Les Miserables, Annie, and The Phantom of the Opera. Read More »

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