2010s

Claire Simon’s The Competition (Le Concours) begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of the Fondation Européenne pour les Métiers de l’Image et du Son, or, as it’s more popularly known, La Fémis. One of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals, every year La Fémis attracts hundreds upon hundreds of applicants hoping to fill only forty annual slots. This new film by Simon, one of France’s premiere nonfiction filmmakers, offers a unique look into the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process involving examiners from the French film industry which is highly personal and idiosyncratic and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice.Read More »

Somewhere in the Alentejo, there are two large earth covered kilns where a man makes charcoal. Essential elements like fire, water, air, earth and space reflect, breathe and celebrate the rhythm of the Earth.Read More »

“Over 2 hours of beautiful, natural, often quite young girls, no faked-orgasms, fountain girls brilliantly real.”Read More »

This new Glimpse is entirely devoted to the female and her spells. Only two men make an appearance but the second one is so beautiful … he’s probably an angel! European, Asian, African, shy, playful, serious but all pretty, fresh and graceful, sen- sual sex before and after, with always natural breasts and pussies to the fine flesh unshorn, fifteen young girls are sharing their passions alone or in duo with innocence and enthusiasm or for the first time in front of the camera, sex is their pleasure not their profession.Read More »

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Like the unknown woman imagined by the poet – which is never quite the same nor entirely different- this new Glimpse 13 resembles it’s twelve prestigious precedents while having its own distinct identity. Roy Stuart has put extra effort into the design and implementation of the twenty odd sequences that make up this diverse album. All the imagination, energy, expertise, as if making a feature film. Probably because he had been working on a feature film project earlier this year. This is especially true of the brilliant main sequence, which tells the story and contrast of two girlfriends-an inexperienced childlike beauty that recites romantic poetry in the street and a more mature girl who likes to show off in front of her webcam.-The younger girl opposes her friends twisted plan to use her as bait to pick up and rip off a guy -but who will come out on top? …Read More »

Shengze Zhu’s third feature shines a light on the curious world of live-streaming, a singularly contemporary form of human connection and commerce wherein “anchors” document their lives and interact with a virtual audience. Cobbled together from 800 hours of live-streaming footage, Present.Perfect. advances a fascinating documentary portrait of Chinese society by focusing on the most marginalized of these anchors: a chain-smoking burn victim, an uncoordinated street dancer, a man with growth-hormone deficiency, a cattle farm worker, and many others. What emerges is an indelible vision of the world we live in today, when the boundaries between the real and the virtual have never been more porous.Read More »

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On a hot summer afternoon, the priest Florin Florescu is called to the bedside of a dying woman…Read More »

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10-year-old Tsering lives in the Himalayas. One day he accidentally breaks his friend’s school chair. When he decides to bring the chair back to his village, the seven kilometres long journey back home in mountainous landscape on a donkey, becomes even more arduous than usual.Read More »

They are in your house… Watching you…

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.Read More »