2010s

  • Claire Simon – Le bois dont les rêves sont faits AKA The Woods Dreams Are Made of (2015)

    2011-2020ArthouseClaire SimonDocumentaryFrance

    The Woods is a deep investigation of both people and place. Whether it’s Gay men crossings for sex in the rain, out a hermit who makes his home deep in a remote section of the park, everywhere humans are busily going about their businessRead More »

  • Johnnie To – Chihuo Quan Wang AKA Chasing Dream (2019)

    2011-2020ActionChinaJohnnie ToRomance

    A young man and woman are meeting each other and establishes a special relationship due to debt problems. Him, finds that her have a singing talent and help her develop a singing career. For its part, he also strives to become the champion of the boxing championship. Both have the same state of mind and fight for their dream. Even if they burn their lives, they will have no regrets in this life.Read More »

  • Céline Sciamma – Portrait de la jeune fille en feu AKA Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

    2011-2020Céline SciammaDramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    Quote:
    France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love.Read More »

  • Martín Rejtman – Dos disparos AKA Two Shots Fired (2014)

    2011-2020ArgentinaComedyDramaMartín Rejtman

    SYNOPSIS
    One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a 17-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power cord when he runs over it. Set on fixing it, he goes to find tools but stumbles across a gun that he brings back to his room to shoot himself twice. Read More »

  • Treb Monteras II – Respeto (2017)

    2011-2020DramaPhilippinesTreb Monteras II

    A poor aspiring rapper befriends an older poet after vandalizing his bookstore.Read More »

  • Katell Quillévéré – Suzanne (2013)

    2011-2020DramaFranceKatell Quillévéré

    Synopsis
    …Suzanne and her elder sister, Maria, live with their widowed father in the Languedoc. We see them first in primary school, then as Suzanne (Sara Forestier) is about to leave secondary and announces she’s pregnant. Flash forward five years and Charlie is part of the family (his father is never seen or spoken of) and Suzanne works in the office of the trucking company that employs dad. Then she falls in love, with Nicolas (Paul Hamy) who feels the same, but he’s a small-time gangster, and when he must leave, Suzanne must choose between him and her family…
    Catherine Shoard, The GuardianRead More »

  • John Akomfrah – The Nine Muses (2010)

    2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalJohn AkomfrahUnited Kingdom

    Twenty-five years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still has not returned home. So his son, Telemachus, sets off on a journey in search of his lost father. So begins Homer’s revered epic poem, The Odyssey, the primary narrative reference point for THE NINE MUSES, John Akomfrah’s remarkable meditation about chance, fate and redemption.Read More »

  • Ron Wyman – Agadez, The Music and The Rebellion (2010)

    2001-2010AdventureDocumentaryRon WymanUSA

    Tuareg nomads have lived in the Sahara Desert for centuries, connecting North Africa and West Africa with their Camel Caravans. They are fiercely independent and have become famous for their rebellions, fighting to protect their freedom and culture. Omara Moctar, known as ‘Bambino’ is a young musician who has become a cult hero in Niger and represents a new generation of Tuareg. He is becoming known as one of the great guitar players of West Africa. After several years of exile, he has returned to his home town, Agadez, a remote center of Tuareg culture at the edge of the Sahara. With the Sultan’s blessing, he recently had a concert outside the Grande Mosque to celebrate their culture and their transition to the modern world.Read More »

  • Marcus Lindeen – Flotten AKA The Raft (2018)

    DocumentaryExperimentalMarcus LindeenSweden

    In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behaviour. Although the project became known in the press as ‘The Sex Raft’, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three-month journey. Through extraordinary archive material, and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition on a full-scale replica of the raft, this film tells the hidden story behind what has been described as ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time’.Read More »

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