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In a desert island of Santa Catarina coast, a woman lives with her two children in the hope that her husband return from the sea one day. The arrival of a sailor (interpreted by filmmaker Jean Garret) with the news of the death of her husband will trigger the release of them sexual, and at the same time, a climate of anxiety and tension loss.Read More »
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“Burckhardt’s travelogue of Port-au-Prince is a unique city symphony whose pace and rhythm favor tropical island life. He does not focus on voodoo but on Haiti’s daily life, neighbors, jokes, gossip, small dramas, Saturday night dances, and ghost stories,” evoking a place where time seems to stand still.” – Bruce PosnerRead More »
In a 19th-century summer, two large families gather for their annual fishing retreat on the far-removed island of Haida Gwaii. Adiits’ii, a charming nobleman, accidentally causes the death of his best friend Kwa’s son and hastens into the wilderness. Adiits’ii is tormented by what he has done and spirals into insanity, becoming Gaagiixid, a supernatural being crazed by hunger. He unexpectedly survives the winter, and at next year’s gathering, the families try to convert Gaagiixid back to Adiitst’ii.Read More »
Celebrated Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr’s takes an old Thai legend and turns it into a beautiful and haunting movie. Mak leaves for Bangkok and is seriously wounded in the Chiang Toong War. His wife, Nak, dies together with her stillborn child, but when Mak returns, they continue to live together.Read More »
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“Separation” is a tale of two… separations. First, that of Pierre and Anne. The first sign appears at the theater one evening, when she refuses to take his hand – but it’s only the first. Other signs follow, leading up to the confession : she loves another man. They talk it through and try to set things straight, to save a love which has shredded away over the years. They go through wobbly reconciliations, scenes and crises before they finally see that their affair is dead and now it’s time to turn to face the second separation – that of parents and child : Louis, aged 2. There is more wrenching, pain and resignation ahead, but the play is over and the curtain falls on a stage where nothing is left but the shadows of former happiness.Read More »
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.Read More »
Between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic run powerful rivers called gaves. Corn fields make them thirsty, and dams block the flow of salmon. Human activity is disrupting the water cycle and the river’s biodiversity. Men and women look with curiosity and love at this fascinating world of beauty and disaster…Read More »
Montage of different sequences reconstructing the three-color additive synthesis process patented by Audibert.Read More »
In The Life And Art Of Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, director Michael Trabitzsch boldly braids together the disparate strands of the Austrian Expressionist’s life and work–combining color with black and white photography, third person narration with first person confessions from Kirchner’s own notebooks, and an angular jazz score with the melodies of Kirchner’s day. “We claim as our own everyone who reproduces directly and without falsification whatever it is that drives him to create.” These words, carved into wood and hung in 1904 at the butcher shop group studio of Die Brucke (“the bridge”) by their author, Kirchner, were a credo that drove the artist and his work well beyond the life of the famed Dresden art collective. Read More »