After living in France for over a decade, filmmaker Aïcha Chloé Borro returns to her native Burkina Faso on the death of her uncle – father to 22 children and patriarch of the family she left behind. The viewer may anticipate an incoming cultural clash between the Westernised director and her relatives deeply rooted in local customs and mentalities, yet the film strives for a much more complex discourse....See more details
The Eternal Memory’ depicts the enduring relationship between Chilean journalist Augusto Góngora and actress Paulina Urrutia, despite the challenges they have been going through together over the past decade. The two have been a couple for 23 years, and eight years ago Augusto was diagnosed with Alzheimer's....See more details
“In this film, I shall be playing Orlando, the Virginia Woolf character”: the young LGBTQ+ community members who renowned philosopher and trans rights activist Paul B. Preciado selects for his directorial debut begin their speeches into the camera with an infectious serenity. Truth be told, ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ does not present a series of miraculous appropriations – but a kind of homecoming for this transgressive character of modernist literature, one who defies all claims on the part of the establishment and any recuperation within heteronormative devices....See more details
The incredible trial of an appallingly ordinary man. Drawn entirely on the 350 hours of rare footage recorded during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in 1961, in Jerusalem, this film about obedience and responsibility is the portrait of an expert in problems resolving, a modern criminal. The film is inspired from the controversial book by Hannah Arendt: "Eichmann in Jerusalem, report on the banality of evil....See more details
Renowned documentarian Jean-Gabriel Périot bases his newest ‘Facing Darkness’ on the raw video footage shot over the course of a few years, starting with April 1992, by four Bosnian filmmakers. That very same month sees the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo. What we see on the screen are images recorded in the heat of the conflict – images that oscillate between samples of journalism under imminent danger and documentary-like fragments exhibiting an incipient analytical stance....See more details
Goran Dević's documentary could be termed an investigative art film, benefitting from a strong activist approach and revealing the human cost of government corruption and contempt for the ordinary worker. Following a Croatian rolling stock company, the film observes a decade-long story of union members fighting to protect their jobs and for the right of a decent living in the face of unbridled capitalism....See more details
What makes militant art great is that specific combination between the passion for the argument that characterizes activist rhetoric, and the careful observation and privileged – yet non-intrusive – access yielded by cinema when it serves as a document. The film in question follows the efforts of young Basel Adra, a resident of Masafer Yatta – an area that, following the Six Day War has fallen under Israeli occupation – to prevent the total eradication of the Palestinian presence in the region....See more details
‘Our Body’ is an ambitious documentarian survey of the gynaecology ward in a Parisian hospital. In the hands of the ever so relevant Claire Simon, this investigation is the opposite of intrusive: as various women cross the threshold of the doctor’s office, a space of empathy, of sisterhood even, begins to form all around the camera....See more details
România / 1962 / 73’ / DCP / a/n / v.o. (fără dialoguri) / Comedie, parodie, film S.F. R: Ion Popescu Gopo Cu: Iurie Darie, Eugenia Balaure, Jean Dănescu, Liliana Tomescu, Haralambie Boroş, Puiu Călinescu, Ovid Teodorescu, Tudorel Popa, Emil Botta
1988, 79', România, r: Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia, Dan Chisovski, ANIMAȚIE, SF, v.o.