2020s

Two men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.Read More »

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David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologise. With the court case drawing ever nearer, does David have any hope of winning this battle against Goliath?Read More »

Eleventh reel of a project that starts from the novel “Voyage autour de ma chambre” by Xavier de Maistre. Isn’t memory a color film? Isn’t it a color memory film? “Cinema? Yes, it is a procedure. Red is also a procedure. […] I hope I have made a film, a procedure. Blue is also a procedure.” (Marcel Broodthaers, “Cinéma”, p.66) “It can also happen that that object that I now see yellow, tomorrow will see it orange. The two sensations are what they are, and they demonstrate it by ‘imposing’ their content on me, already yellow and orange. So I must say: in your case – yesterday – I saw O yellow, in another case – today – I see O orange. microscope, I see it in a different color or another way. I have not been deceived in the first case. I have simply seen it without the microscope. I would be deceived if I tried to assign to the second experience the color value of the first, or vice versa. ” (Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, “Philosophical Illuminations”)Read More »

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A man with the mental faculties of a child must save his mother, thereby becoming god and devil.Read More »

PLOT: Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist

A 2021 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli, based upon Illusions perdues by Honoré de Balzac. It stars Benjamin Voisin, Xavier Dolan, Vincent Lacoste, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu and Jeanne Balibar.Read More »

Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello, and Francesco Munzi, three of the most interesting voices in contemporary Italian filmmaking, pool their talent in this captivating collective work, with a self-assured nod to the film Comizi d’amore (Love Meetings) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964). In their travels across Italy, the filmmakers hear from a diverse range of young people, resulting in a snapshot of a generation for whom hope is always marred with uncertainty. Disarmingly simple and strikingly effective, this documentary captures the spirit of a troubled time, in which the global pandemic throws doubt on the future.Read More »

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Essentially a series of vignettes that present an impressive combination of image and sound, “Shiver” seems to focus on concepts as tradition, through a distinct jidai-geki approach, nature and particularly water, as exhibited in the waves of the sea and the flow of the waterfalls, and the human body as connected to the playing of different percussion instruments. More intensely though, Toshiaki Toyoda focuses on the ways music is formed from a vibration that becomes a sound, that becomes a rhythm, that eventually becomes a piece of music.Read More »

There are the images of before, the images of after and the letters. The images of after come first, they stem from the same surveillance camera in Wuhan, empty streets that only throng with people again on April 4th, 2020.Read More »

Joana, 13, wants to find out why her great-aunt died at 70 without ever having dated anyone. As she confronts the values of her community in Southern Brazil, Joana realizes that all the women in her family have a secret, while something hidden inside her also revealsRead More »