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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An existentialist walk through time.

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Poster for Gift

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A surrealistic narrative is created which collapses different realities into one, by means of both similarities and juxtapositions. There is a certain irony in creating such a narrative which revels in the popular romanticism of a sleep state, as a means to open the door to an interior world of alternative realities and parallel universes.

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Poster for I Swam Enguri

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman decides to find her house that she has been deprived of at the age of 4 due to the war. The only chance to get to the occupied area is to cross the border secretly. The border barrier, the natural dividing line, the river Enguri, all add up to the artificially-created wire line by Russian Soldiers. In search of her house, the protagonist explores lives of internally displaced persons for 24 years after the war and sinks into the art of existence that seems to be war, rather than peace. In the process, she meets with so-called 'connectors', who help her get to the occupied territory. The story portrays everlasting estranging damage occupation can bring: how it can eradicate the concept of ' home' and the comforting feeling of safety.

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Poster for Te busco en todos

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Merche rents his only son's room to Günther, a german youngster. She'll start to see him as a possibility to refill some empty spaces in her life.

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Poster for Les prisons aussi...

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The only film to emerge from France’s Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons was this collaboration between filmmaker and writer Hélène Châtelain and her colleague René Lefort which extends the GIP initiative to end the silence around incarceration in France. Blocked from shooting inside prison walls, the filmmakers ask former inmates, guards and bystanders to describe their experience with the institution. Their feature is a crucial part of a broad constellation of projects – a post-68 vérité wave – in which women, immigrants, factory workers, and other marginalized groups began using film and video to analyze their position within global struggles. Incarceration is one factor that ties these struggles together: “None of us is sure to escape prison,” Foucault wrote in the GIP manifesto, “Today less than ever.”

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Poster for Dandelions

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: 'How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?' Wilkinson looks at her self - black - and ponders in the white landscape called Canada how can she 'enjoy the flowers' as she cartwheels with great panache through fields of them. What kind of relationship to the land can she have in a place where she sees herself but where others constantly ask: Where are you from? Wilkinson's existence vis a vis the land seems to lie somewhere in between the extreme long shots and the close-ups that make up the film, giving at once the feelings of intimacy and estrangement." - Marian McMahon

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Poster for Dois Dias

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a son fails at a job interview, his parents have to deal with a problem: they have to deal with his jobless son and their son with his father's secret.

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Poster for Bird in the Hand

1992 · ★ 1.0 (2)

This film portrays a jealous triangle. Simone and Kaye are lovers trying desperately to escape New York City and the reality of their friend Ayo's abusive relationship.

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Poster for A 20th Century Chocolate Cake

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Greg and Charles, two young men in Montreal, are trying to find creative fulfillment in their professional lives; Greg pursues work as a freelance writer of human interest journalism, while the openly gay Charles takes a job as a dancer in a gay bar.

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Poster for Berlin zur Kaiserzeit - Glanz und Schatten einer Epoche

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This film deals with the contrasts of the Wilhelminian era in Berlin: the splendor of the monarchy, the economic and intellectual vitality of the up-and-coming imperial capital on the one hand, and the misery of the proletarians in the tenements on the other. The documentary sets depressing images of the horrors at the front against the exhilaration of victory at the beginning of the First World War.

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Poster for It All Started With a Stale Sandwich

2019 · ★ 7.0 (1)

50 years ago, Sydneysiders were shocked and the art world astonished by Christo's wrapping of the Little Bay coastline. Hungarian migrant and entrepreneur John Kaldor, who initiated this monumental work, has said “it all started with a stale sandwich, in Christo's studio in 1968 New York.” Now, Project 34 (by Asad Raza) is about to be unveiled, and UK artist Michael Landy is designing the exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects.

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Poster for My Secret Life

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The character in the red dress is self-confident but a bit numb. The character in the blue dress is full of feelings but hasn’t found her place in life.

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Poster for Zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort

2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary deals with the murder of 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl in July 2002 by three young people.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When capitalism is slowly taking possession of the Alps, Alain, an old hardened mountain dweller, tries somehow to perpetuate the everyday life of yesteryear men. This documentary traces the coexistence of two worlds united in one single valley.

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Poster for Once I Was a Child

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The interviews conducted by Tamara Trampe in a Pankow kindergarten testify to a rare attempt to enter the world of the young interviewees completely, to give their stories a space where reality and fantasy, worries and wishes can mix freely. A space that’s not always provided in the daily life of the kindergarten, as the film casually suggests even after it was toned down by the DEFA censors: toilets without doors, ghastly birthday parties and friendly but unmistakable reprimands when the children let too much dialect slip into the grammar exercise or when their pictures of soldiers are not realistic enough.

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Poster for Herachian

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Friedl vom Gröller invites a stranger to his small apartment in Paris and records his reactions to an unexpected striptease.

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Poster for Mother Mameng

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mother Mameng delves deep into the character of a woman who has experienced extreme poverty and domestic violence and rose from from it all to become the beloved personality, well-known to the Philippine mass movement.

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Poster for Goodbye Thelma

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Goodbye Thelma synthesizes footage from the 1991 film Thelma & Louise and footage of the author's own making to create a mysterious, and at times disturbing, auto-fictional exploration of the joys and terrors of traveling as a woman alone.

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film by Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler.

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Poster for In Still Time

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Still Time is an experimental animation that investigates the catastrophic image and spectacle through direct animation of still images onto 16mm film. The film uses still images found on the internet from the current Syrian civil war; these were laser printed directly onto the film, simultaneously abstracting these images and re-animating them.

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