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The remarks on Jun Kurosawa’s works have been focusing on his impulse of destruction, which are expressed in degenerative keywords such as “death” and “thanatos”: whereas aesthetical images are also often mentioned. Is it because his distinct features help them to establish such images?Read More »
With an elephant’s ivory tusk as the protagonist, Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another meditates upon the endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and institutions.Read More »
A young girl goes through villages as a debt collector and in the process, lends herself to play roles to others, as an elemental, revolutionary, lover.Read More »
Run escapes… He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes ; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn’t choose them. Everytime, he felt in by running from another life. That’s the reason why his name’s Run.
—Philippe LacôteRead More »
A slow-burning psycological drama that needs the right space and time to create an intimate relationship with the viewer and, fortunately, it delivers… ~Cineuropa
Every year, 33-year-old photographer Roos (Rifka Lodeizen) visits her mother, Louise (Elsie de Brauw), and her teenage half-brother, Bengt (Marcus Hanssen), in Norway. During this particular visit Roos is more troubled than ever…Read More »
Storyline
Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a “proper”, bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in Earthquake Engineering, conversations with Alex and Michelle, her two close friends and occasional, eagerly awaited rendezvous’ with Dan, a married man with whom she is romantically involved. After her parents move out of the family apartment into a new house, she decides to get a dog. It is something that she wanted ever since she was a child and now that she lives on her own she can finally fulfill this wish. Written by Ana Lungu
2015 Bucharest International Film Festival……Best Director, Audience AwardRead More »
A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives deep in the forest, where more mystery and danger lie in wait.Read More »
Directed by Daryne Joshua, “Noem Ma Skollie (Call Me Thief)” is South Africa’s official entry for the foreign language film at the Oscars.
Based on the life of the film’s scriptwriter, John W. Fredericks, the film tells the story of a young man living in a world of poverty and violence in 1960s Cape Town, before being imprisoned for a petty crime.Read More »
Claudia and Flavio were passionately in love for a long time. It all ended and things were not easy for her. After many years, their world is adrift. He feels the need to keep on going, down on the ground; she would rather never forget.Read More »