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A cinematic travelogue in contemporary Istanbul, based on Eremya Komurciyan’s ‘History of Istanbul in the 17th Century.’Read More »
2020s
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Zeynep Dadak – Ah Gözel Istanbul AKA Invisible to the Eye (2020)
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Various – Cinetracts ’20 (2020)
2011-2020PoliticsShort FilmVarious

In 1968, a group of French filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker crafted short, quickly made cinematic responses to the political and social upheaval that shook Paris in May of that year. Inspired in part by this project, called Cinétracts, the Wexner Center commissioned 20 short films by filmmakers from around the world. See a complete list below, as well as interviews and essays illuminating their work at the bottom of this page.Read More »
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Philippe Grandrieux & Lav Diaz & Manuela De Laborde & Óscar Enríquez – Liminal (2020)
ExperimentalLav DiazManuela de LabordeMexicoÓscar EnríquezPhilippe Grandrieux

A FICUNAM commission for four directors, Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the film-makers explore this relationship through four distinct stories as to context and imaginary.
Within the category of world cinéma d’auteur, Philippe Grandrieux and Lav Diaz have much in common in terms of their affinities with radical cinematographic form: both are extremely inventive in their practical relationship between music and narration.Read More »
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Pascal Plante – Nadia, Butterfly (2020)
2011-2020CanadaDramaPascal Plante
While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games; to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.
Official Selection Festival de Cannes 2020.Read More »
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Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson & Guy Maddin – The Rabbit Hunters (2020)
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Mati Diop – In My Room AKA Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales #20 (2020)
2011-2020ArthouseFranceMati DiopShort Film

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Akshay Indikar – Sthalpuran AKA Chronicle of Space (2020)
2011-2020Akshay IndikarDramaIndiaAfter his father’s disappearance, eight-year-old Dighu seeks refuge from loneliness in his imagination and diary entries.Read More »
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Rosa Friedrich – Topfpalmen AKA Potted Palm Trees (2020)
2011-2020AustriaDramaRosa FriedrichShort FilmThe dress is too lavish and the toilet cubicle too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood is alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: the groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her step-father’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?Read More »
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Achille Mauri – Carie (2020)
2011-2020Achille MauriDocumentaryItalyShort FilmThe perception of a place, the idea we create of it and the emotions it arouses in us are closely linked to the type of interaction between different aspects. Carie is the discovery of a new dimension of climbing, but at the same time an excuse to stop and reflect on what it means to maintain a balance between safeguarding the environment and human development, creating a multiparty discussion on the matter. It is a journey that began in one way and was transformed during the course of the project, one piece at a time, thanks to a succession of encounters during the search for possible climbing routes in the marble quarries of the Apuan Alps.Read More »




