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2020

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Light Isle
Light Isle
The remaining neon signs of the Bay Area stand apart from modern lighted signs in their material characteristics and the history they connote. Light Isle suggests the notion of neon as a medium by emphasizing its simplicity, vibrancy and famous luminescence and questions that if neon's distinct characteristics allow its recognition as a distinct medium, then do other formats of visual and audio mediums prominently suggest their unique differences? (Matthew Hidy)
Light Isle 2020
O Outro Lado de Patrick
O Outro Lado de Patrick
A behind the scenes look at Gonçalo Waddington's new film, Patrick, visiting the shooting locations and interviewing the main protagonists.
O Outro Lado de Patrick 2020
Hotel Astoria
Hotel Astoria
At Hotel Astoria, the former hotspot of Leipzig, guests were served champagne and turtle soup while the Stasi listened in. Animated memories from times gone by.
Hotel Astoria 2020
Eric
Eric
Eric 2020
Magyar lapát
Magyar lapát
Magyar lapát 2020
Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)
Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11)
Documentary footage, Hollywood cinema and video games collide, overlap and submerge into each other in a Dadaist collage inspired by the poetry of Hungarian poet Mário Z. Nemes. The hypermedia nature of the present is emphasised by fragments that are free of a clear narrative backbone.
Baroque Femina (Nr.7-11) 2020
Jamaika - Onto New Paths
Jamaika - Onto New Paths
João, a biscateiro from an immigrant neighborhood in Lisbon, is forced to face a new life after the re-housing of the community.
Jamaika - Onto New Paths 2020
Ângelo
Ângelo
Grandfather, scientist, professor, playwright, writer, environmentalist and zoologist, scholar of dragonflies and butterflies. A intimate and multifaceted portrait of Ângelo Machado; directed by his granddaugher.
Ângelo 2020
Apparition
Apparition
The past is always out of reach, yet we’re always pulled towards it. Ismaïl Bahri's poetic film plays with this paradox. We see two hands holding a photograph which is illuminated by strong light from two sides, blinding us to its contents. Only the shadows cast by the hands reveal what is hidden by the light: a crowd gathering on 20 March 1956, Tunisia's independence day. A synaesthetic gesture, where seeing is enabled by touch.
Apparition 2020
Blind Love
Blind Love
Blind Love follows four single, blind millennials in their quest for love. With assists from their eager circle of family and friends, these young men and women hope to find The One. Hailing from Florida, Maryland, New York, and Texas, with interests ranging from poker playing to ballroom dancing, these singles bring fresh perspectives on contemporary dating. Each is on a mission to be seen as who they are--they don't want pity, they want a serious relationship.
Blind Love 2020
Images From Stone
Images From Stone
In Caucasus, men and women tell stories about their fascination with prehistoric monuments. Offering a hallucinatory perspective on ecstatic effects and ancestral powers, the film is also about how stone activates children's paranormal capacities. Bodies and minds are put to the test and question our relationship with the visible and the invisible.
Images From Stone 2020
Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt - Beethoven heute
Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt - Beethoven heute
Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt - Beethoven heute 2020
Resistencia un Documental de Salma Millán
Resistencia un Documental de Salma Millán
Resistencia un Documental de Salma Millán 2020
Half Grave, Half Beast
Half Grave, Half Beast
I finally climbed out of the "cave house" to offer a sacrifice... Home, hometown, the Chinese Incense Burning Acestral Land... An array of half grave half beast faces that follow a collective and tragic fate.
Half Grave, Half Beast 2020
One Day
One Day
We follow a man of advanced age walking along a misty mountain path in China. In one shot he carries a bag; in others he carries sacks of rice, or timber, or large buckets of water. He’s filmed in the morning, in the evening, and at night. The seasons change as we walk with him, through the bleakness of the winter, or on a fresh spring morning. The low-key atmosphere, the subdued gray-green hues of the surroundings, and the absence of dialogue and music all lend this film a refreshingly understated feel. A space is opened up in which the viewer can listen to the sound of the wind, the man’s footsteps, the birds. There is time to wonder who the man is that we are following, where he is going, and what his life is like. Only at the end of his journey do we find out a little more about him. One Day is a minimalist take on a journey that allows the viewer room to reflect on what we do with our time.
One Day 2020
Once the Dust Has Settled
Once the Dust Has Settled
A Canadian town called Asbestos was once home to the largest mine of its kind in the world. Today, the open-pit mine around which the city is established only acts as a constant reminder of a not-so-distant industrial past.
Once the Dust Has Settled 2020
Tempo Zawose
Tempo Zawose
Tempo Zawose 2020
Wata
Wata
Inspired by water deity Mami Wata, the film illustrates the journey of music from Africa to London through the meeting of our two main characters; Mami Wata and The Musician.
Wata 2020
The Rainy Season
The Rainy Season
A documentary about joys, sorrows, ups, and downs experienced by the civil society activist, Lee Eun Taek.
The Rainy Season 2020
letter to a friend
letter to a friend
A close friend is asked to start an investigation before an inevitable act occurs. Interlacing images, textures, movements, traces, and sounds from over a century, this film recounts in minute detail a home and street in Bethlehem.
letter to a friend 2020
Behind Time, Time Comes
Behind Time, Time Comes
“Behind time, time comes” interlaced with folk songs, narrates the rhythms of rural life, where time and its weight, shape and define the landscape, as well as the lives that compose it. Accompanying the reminiscences of a group of women from the parish of Dornelas, Sever do Vouga, Portugal.
Behind Time, Time Comes 2020
Şems
Şems
A documentary about a man who as established himself as a Uzbek dog walker in the Cihangir, where the intellectual people have lived in heart of İstanbul, for 10 years. We will see about this man, who looks like a loser and quite type, whom most of people sees as one of his family, and what he accomplished in 10 years.
Şems 2020
Gotas de lluvia
Gotas de lluvia
Gotas de lluvia 2020
The King Sized
The King Sized "Big Tasty"
In the life of 40-year-old Dana, there was one suicide attempt, fights with homophobes, drugs and a broken heart. Living in Russia, she is not afraid to speak openly about her orientation, enduring threats and ridicule. However, Dana does not despair and finds solace in watching TV series and the big Big Tasty.
The King Sized "Big Tasty" 2020
Ponta Negra F.C.
Ponta Negra F.C.
Ponta Negra F.C. 2020
Erwin
Erwin
A 58-year-old man lives in a caravan, placed in his own garden. He has everything that he needs there, starting from a bed, a coffee maker, a refrigerator, Internet, but especially a webcam, or rather, a set of webcams, for his sex chats. Erwin, that’s his name, tells his own story.
Erwin 2020
Mylène Farmer, sans contrefaçon
Mylène Farmer, sans contrefaçon
Mylène Farmer, sans contrefaçon 2020
Around Copacabana
Around Copacabana
Presidential elections. Fake news. Pleasures and pains through the neighborhoods of the city. Brazil, 21st century.
Around Copacabana 2020
The Believers
The Believers
The Believers is a wry, quietly observant film that captures secular and non-secular rituals practiced by the average Singaporean. In juxtaposing the ceremonial and the everyday, the work gently teases out commonalities across different practices, establishing a sense of kinship and alluding to a common humanity.
The Believers 2020
The Russians
The Russians
A very private trip through Russia - a world power with a shrinking population, a myriad of ethnic minorities, and vast distances, a country between tradtion and future.
The Russians 2020
Můj otec Antonín Kratochvíl
Můj otec Antonín Kratochvíl
Můj otec Antonín Kratochvíl 2020
Quand le burger se met à table
Quand le burger se met à table
Quand le burger se met à table 2020
Ellas
Ellas
'Ellas' will go through fifty years of the history of transsexuality through the story of five women of different generations united by common moments. In the documentary, the unpublished tapes that Valeria Vegas recorded of ‘La Veneno’ to write her biography will be heard for the first time.
Ellas 2020
Annie Cordy, une vie d’artiste
Annie Cordy, une vie d’artiste
Annie Cordy, une vie d’artiste 2020
Guadeloupe, les bâtisseurs des alizés
Guadeloupe, les bâtisseurs des alizés
Guadeloupe, les bâtisseurs des alizés 2020
Pero algún día
Pero algún día
Pero algún día 2020
For Real
For Real
Mady and Merouane are two eleven-year-olds who grow up as best friends in the north-east of Paris. They live right next door to each other and that’s more important to them than anything else. And anyway, they feel so at home in their neighbourhood that they can’t think of a more perfect place to practice adulthood. When some other boys turn up, their friendship is briefly put to the test.
For Real 2020
Anwärter - Ausbildung in Stammheim
Anwärter - Ausbildung in Stammheim
Anwärter - Ausbildung in Stammheim 2020
Mon rêve, ma maison mon coin de terre
Mon rêve, ma maison mon coin de terre
Mon rêve, ma maison mon coin de terre 2020
Thus they will sing
Thus they will sing
"Thus they will sing" is a movie-collage that interweaves human experiences, soromitski (shaming) songs and the flow of modern life. Soromnitski (shaming) songs are traditional songs (spivankas) with erotic motifs, sung at weddings, vechornytsi (evening parties), and feasts. Although they were quite shameful to sing in everyday life, they were broadcasting the man and woman's behavior patterns. The tradition of creating the spivankas (these songs) still exists. Ostap Bohoslovets from Nadvirna town re-analyses the modern world of youth in his own spivankas
Thus they will sing 2020