Ten years after they went their separate ways following the breakdown of their marriage, Jacques makes a sudden reappearance in Mado’s life. Whilst Jacques has been unable to move on and build a new life for himself, Mado has married another man, Stéphane, with whom she has had a son, Paul, now seven years old. It was the tragic death of their child which led to Jacques and Mado’s separation, and it is something which Jacques has been unable to put behind him. When she sees how Jacques and Paul warm to one another, Mado becomes concerned and insists that her ex-partner he should never see her son again. Unwilling or unable to let go of the tragedy that still haunts him Jacques holds a private vigil in the basement of the apartment block where Mado and her family live, just so that he can be near to the little boy who has come to replace the one he has lost…Read More »

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ZONA SUR has met with success in both Latin America and at festivals like Sundance, where it won World Cinema Directing and Screenwriting awards in 2010. Interestingly it was also Bolivia’s official entry for the 2010 Oscars. How has it fared in his own country? He says, “In La Paz the film has caused a sensation. People don’t stop talking about it. It has been like a hot potato thrown into the hands of society. The ending [or lack of a definite ending] bothers some people. But then people have to talk about it.” And such discussions should gladden the hearts of any filmmakers.
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Liana, a young architecture student from a wealthy family, is about to get married to an engineer. Everything in her life seems well until she is confronted with the idea she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows and a mediocre lifestyle. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.

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George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their furniture has arrived, having been sent to Carlisle by mistake, three of the four toilets don’t work and cracks are starting to appear in the ceiling. However, nothing can dent their determination to have a good time.Read More »

Bad quality but very rare. I don’t know the source for this video, but it looks like a distant ancestor was a vhs.

Here’s an imdb review by lugonian:
THE LOVES OF CARMEN (Fox, 1927), directed by Raoul Walsh, reunites Walsh with his WHAT PRICE GLORY (1926) leading players of Dolores Del Rio and Victor McLaglen in a story based on Prosper Merimee’s classic story, “Carmen,” that later served as an 1875 Georges Bizet opera. For those unfamiliar with the plot, this edition, one of many, comes across as more faithful to the aforementioned properties from which it is based.Read More »

you’ve ever wondered what a single person can do against the relentless onslaught of development, wait until you see the charismatic and enigmatic David Brower push the 1964 Wilderness Act through Congress, and then go on to save the Grand Canyon from damming and help create Redwoods National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore. With a playful visual aesthetic, a cool alt-country soundtrack, and hand-held wilderness footage from as far back as the 1930s, Monumental documents the golden age of American environmentalism, when Brower took the Sierra Club from a regional hiking group into a national political force. Seen through Brower’s own eyes–he was an accomplished filmmaker –a 1956 raft trip down Glen Canyon, before its damming, evokes the awful sadness of losing public land we’ve failed to protect. And in period footage of Brower’s early rock-climbs–done in sneakers, with hemp ropes–and of his training of the 10th Mountain Division and participation in their victory against the Nazis in the high Alps, Brower emerges as an unlikely and inspiring national hero.Read More »

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called “Louis”, is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way – much to the dismay of the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. The unconventional genius and French Revolution are sparking a fire in Louis’ heart; he doesn’t want to serve a master – only the arts. Facing times of family tragedies and unrequited love, he almost gives up. However, Louis makes it to Vienna to study under Haydn in 1792, and the rest is history. Who was this man, whose music has since touched countless hearts and minds? At the end of his life, the master is isolated by loss of loved ones and hearing. Surely though, he was way ahead of his times.Read More »

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother’s footsteps.Read More »

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Starting with the screening of O Mandarim in 1996, Júlio Bressane became a regular at IFFR — one of its patron saints, one could even say, as many of his films were selected for later editions. In 2000, the festival honoured the cinema marginal paragon with one of the first comprehensive retrospectives on his work outside his native Brazil. It is, thus, more than fitting that Bressane’s extensive reflection on his six decades of filmmaking, The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus, done in tandem with Rodrigo Lima, is one of IFFR 2023’s centrepieces!Read More »