2010s

You can’t choose your mother but you can choose your victim.Read More »

Two young siblings ended up living on the streets, having nothing left but their love. It’s a story about survival, second chances and second falls.Read More »

Mr. Safari is an 83 years old retired of the post office who lives in an old neighborhood in Tehran. After the death of his wife he lives alone by himself but when his only son who lives abroad the country in Canada invites him to travel there for the treatment his ordinary life is disturbed.Read More »

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Stand Clear of the Closing Doors is the story of Ricky (Jesus Sanchez-Velez), an autistic 13-year-old who runs away from home and discovers a new world on the NYC subway. His mother Mariana (Andrea Suarez Paz), an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, starts a panicked search of their neighborhood in Rockaway Beach with the help of a local shopkeeper. But as days pass with no sign of her son, and with Hurricane Sandy bearing down, the divisions the family has tried to ignore are brought to light. Stand Clear of the Closing Doors is a beautiful and moving New York City story, and one with an eye-opening view of life on the autism spectrum.Read More »

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An homage to the Gaza Strip, Ouroboros follows a man through five different landscapes, upending mass-mediated representation of trauma. A journey outside of time, marking the end as the beginning, exploring the subject of the eternal return and how we move forward when all is lost.Read More »

In 1890, Russian writer Anton Chekov writes short stories in newspapers to feed his family. He achieves success in the form of Pushkin prize. However, he decides to meet convicts at Sakhalin when one of this brothers die due to tuberculosis.Read More »

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In the aftermath of the First World War, a 20-year-old Frenchman discovers the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, guided by a young Russian emigrant whom he met in the trenches of Verdun. Camera in the hand, he goes through the district of Montparnasse to meet the “little women of Pigalle”.
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Terako (Sakura Ando) is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga (Arata Iura) who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako’s friend kills herself. After that, Terako sleeps all day long and wakes up only when Iwanaga calls her.Read More »

Comprised entirely of archive material, drawing on a rich seam of documents to reveal how Swiss filmmaker and travel writer René Gardi left his mark on how a whole generation viewed Africa from the 1950s onward.Read More »