PLOT: The second part of Aki Kaurismaki “Finland” trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.Read More »
Details the early attempts, what worked, or why it didn’t, in the history of adding partial or full colour to films. Includes early film clips to illustrate how most tries appeared to audiences.Read More »
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In a North Dublin housing estate Char’s mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.Read More »
Two estranged brothers are forced to meet at the family’s beach house to settle legal matters after their father passes away. In the midst of their disagreements they discover that they have more in common than they thought.Read More »
A young actor explores the surroundings, waits for the right light to emerge and watches the horizon from the coast.Read More »
Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto’s early hip-hop scene.Read More »
A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director’s twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.Read More »
The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
Julian (The Film Seeker) on letterboxd wrote:
You’ve certainly seen films about making films before, and you’ve no doubt seen films about troubled inner-city youth before. But save the eye-rolling until after you’ve read about The Worst Ones, because in traversing these clichéd jungles with the sort of rugged, amateurish enthusiasm that would annoy any cynical viewer from the jump, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret fully embrace one particular advantage that their film has over all those that came before it: the very fact that it did come after all those other films.Read More »
A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.Read More »