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- The New Greatness Case offers remarkable access to a group of young Russians entrapped by the secret service, resulting in unjust trials and prison sentences - echoing the intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia we see on the news every day. As we are witnessing the intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia, The New Greatness Case brings you into the life of young Russians caught in the crossfire. Anya was an ordinary teenager, discussing Russian politics and social issues on the internet with a group of friends, when a secret agent joined their chat group and rented them a meeting space - pushing them towards direct physical action. Police storm their homes to arrest and jail the teens, accusing them of plotting to overthrow the government and fabricating charges of extremism. Three years later, Anya's mother, continuing her desperate fight to prove her daughter's innocence, has transformed from a loyal follower of Vladimir Putin to a hunger-strike enacting political activist. With hidden camera footage, and an intimate relationship with the protagonists, director Anna Shishova shows the complete repression of present-day Russia, and how young, free-thinking people, are seen as a threat to the government.
- Presentation that includes incredible short movies with some of the world's biggest actors. In "Friend Request Pending", Judi Dench is a neophyte in the complicated landscape of Internet dating. Colin Firth is an unusually needy neighbor to Keira Knightley in "Steve." Lily Tomlin gets lost on her way to a funeral in "Procession", and Jason Alexander is a screenwriter at the end of his rope in the musical short "Not Your Time." Also including short movies starring Kenneth Branagh, Julia Stiles, Wes Bentley and more.
- Nicky escapes from prison somewhere between Alabama and Utah, sometime in the future. He looks for his girl in the bars and hotels. All he can see in his new freedom is that no one cares for the future of human culture.
- In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide letter on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death". The Mechanics of Fluids is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
- Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today.
- A middle-class family spends the day together purchasing items in anticipation of the arrival of a new baby. We follow them into a consumerist dreamscape that soon dissolves into something nightmarish. Things take a violent turn when the patriarch of the family is confronted by a group of masked vigilantes.
- Marc, a young city dweller, goes into the countryside where he stays on his own in a lonely house. He is expecting his girlfriend Louise who is supposed to come and join him soon, but she is late showing up. Marc is keen on keeping fit and becomes obsessed with the healthy daily routine he has set up for himself, but the silence grows heavier and heavier, and Louise hasn't arrived yet. In the anxious surrounding calm, Marc gradually falls prey to the assault of all kinds of sounds that are usually ignored and sounds that are not usually heard.
- In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.
- Mimi has always lived in Douarnenez (Brittany), near her friends and her widowed father. She is a simple young woman who takes life as it comes, even if sometimes life puts obstacles in her way. She works at the cinema Le Club. She was not supposed to, but tonight she has to welcome a young depressive director Gaspard Kermarec. He happens to come from the same town as her, and his film happens to be as depressing as himself.
- Germany 1937. Paul v. Kammer has lived with his grandfather in Germany for ten years. He has just finished school and faces a difficult decision: His mother, who is French, urges him to leave Germany and start university in France. His grandfather demands that he enters into the family business which would also mean conscription for Paul. Only one day left to make his decision. Paul meets his friend Max. A decisive day? Two friends and a girl in the summer of 1937.
- A man is released from prison. All he wants is to live in peace with his wife. His former partners intercept him since as an accessory to their crime he is a risk. The man is not intimidated. His "friends" kill his wife to make him change his opinion. The man cracks up and gets himself a machine gun to fight the killers who destroyed his life.
- When her mother died, Nanu, 15, and her father Taj, 40, left Nepal for the Corsican countryside to start a new life. Nanu isolates herself in their small house and refuses to go out. But one morning, Nanu hears strange noises coming from the nearby field.
- Snake Feed is a glimpse into the lives of Irene and Rick, two people struggling with life-long addiction and marginal employment. The film follows a day in their lives at a time when Rick is dealing in the small-time pill trade and Irene is intent on rebuilding her life. In the course of the story, Rick betrays Irene's trust, which causes her to take action on behalf of herself and her children. The setting, a small town in upstate New York, is woven into the film through the inclusion of details of daily life.
- The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.
- Because the driver is unable to fulfill correctly his order to kill somebody, he and his friends have to pay the price. "Alabama" is a road-movie. The camera is constantly in the back of the car shooting through the back window... But more important than this story is how the song "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan is changing when it is interpreted by Jimi Hendrix. And the recurring album of the Stones "His Satanic Majesty's Request".
- In order to save her sister from the war in Ukraine, Alona must pay security deposit to the Israeli authorities. She reaches for Renée, a demented past actress of whom she takes care, and asks her for the money. The unexpected response from Renée shakes their close relationship, while their love for each other is being put to the test.
- The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents.
- The protagonists of the film are a father and his son. The man is struggling with basic financial problems and his child has diabetes. They are refugees who left a closed immigration center, trying their luck and looking for a quiet place to live in Warsaw. They find a desolate square where they occupy a trailer, as their temporary home. Their appearance, however, triggers the reluctance of the owners and the conflict with Polish neighbors escalates immediately.
- A work produced for the Morimura Yasumasa Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, (April 6 to June, 1996). It was shown in an old-style theater constructed within the exhibit space that featured photographs of Morimura playing famous foreign and Japanese actresses.
- The events occur during the Armenian-Azerbaijanian/Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin for identification of a dead soldier they find out that he is not Azerbaijanian but Armenian - former dweller of Baku.
- On October 9th, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Master of the Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art, curated by David Ross, presently Director of Whitney Museum, in New York. On the same day an unusual group of John's and Yoko's friends, including Ringo, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Krasner, and many others, gathered to celebrate John's birthday. This film is an visual and audio record of that event.
- Sofía is putting up search posters of her missing boyfriend Luis all over town. Copies of his picture surround her. Luis is one of the more than 80,000 missing persons in Mexico. At night Sofía faces a recurring dream: little by little her world transforms into paper. First the birds, then the ground, her room, until even death is made of paper. Papel tells this Mexican story of mourning and hope in black and white still images.
- For 11-year-old Tino, being the eldest of five children in a Samoan family is no easy task. Tino plays guardian and protector to his younger siblings. As Tino strives to cope in an adult world, the birth of yet another baby brings about more burdens and responsibilities. The children endure in silence, their world a weave of vision and sound.
- "Crush" is the story of a man who wants to turn into animal as told by the man himself, and one or two observers. He employs a variety of techniques to transform himself into a beast. He cuts off parts of his body. He exercises. He swims. He wants to return to the water; to speed up evolution a little. Has he gone mad, or is he just tired of being human?
- A tribute to the Pre-raphaelite brotherhood by telling the story of the creation of some of the most famous paintings, and especially the most well-known one, "Ophelia", by Sir John Everett Millais. Where we can see nature taking more and more place in the art.
- After moving to a new house, the hero meets an unknown girl-neighbor and immediately becomes a witness of inexplicable events. Trying to understand the mystical events, the hero enters into a confrontation with the girl's father, who keeps a shocking secret.
- An inspiring creative documentary that follows the story of one of Uganda's unsung heroes - Robert Katende. Popularly known as 'Coach Robert', he was able to transform a little unknown slum in the outskirts of Kampala, into an internationally recognized army of Chess Champions.
- Stéphane, 35 years old, has recently moved to Brussels. He returns to his hometown of La Louvière to watch a soccer match with his childhood friends, Luca and Cesare. At the end of the game, they manage to persuade Stéphane to follow them to a Flemish nightclub, "like in the good old days". But the exit does not go as planned: Stéphane is refused entry. This is the beginning of a crazy night that will lead him to discover that we don't choose the way others see us.
- The appearance of people with albinism is often the basis for superstition, which extremely supports their social exclusion. This leads to bullying, discrimination and persecution. Zerozero tells the moving story of rapper and activist RobenX from Memphis, USA.
- Kornelia is an elder woman who lives in a small village in the Paphos province, with most of her children living in Australia. Mayia, a migrant home assistant, takes care of her daily needs, while her family is in Nepal. The details of their everyday relationship highlight the fluidity of family.
- Abyss is a chain of 10,000 images found through Google's reverse image search. The visual development is based on the misunderstandings that happen in the AI's reading of the image material. The AI doesn't care about scale, emotions or context but is only interested in patterns, colors and correlations. We are watching a primal chaos before the creation of an artificial consciousness. And the awakening consciousness is looking back at us as a species.
- The camera pursues the life of two Dutch brothers, Herman and Egbert over the course of several months. Their mother wanted to disassociate herself from the petty bourgeois atmosphere in Holland during the fifties. In 1959 she took her two boys and left for Marnhac, a deserted village in southern France. After living in France for the the next 35 years both brothers have become almost fully alienated from society. They don't have the courage to leave their very aged and dominant mother.
- Collective screening of the Academy Award nominated short films from the Live Action category for 2014.
- What Farocki Taught is a stubborn film, containing a perfect replica, shot-for-shot, in color and English, of Harun Farocki's 1969 b/w German film 'Inextinguishable Fire' - about the production of Napalm, the abuses of human labor, and filmmaking. The film radically questions the significance and conclusiveness of "found footage" or handed-down material by denying any historical distance to the political situation criticised by Farocki.
- Homer is a missing prisoner of war since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. He is trapped in a new life in the depths of Anatolia. The only thing that keeps him apart from the land and life he left behind, is the sea. Where does the dream end and where does reality begin?
- An elderly couple prepares for its Sunday meal during a national day celebration. A desperate cash-strapped man resorts to his last savings in the form of coins. A foreign female worker walks through a deserted city selling 'luck', in a state that refuses to acknowledge its effective collapse and the bleak environment its few citizens live in.
- Élie, an ambitious young teenager, finds himself torn between Enzo, a singular sixty-something whom he works for, and his own mother who suspects the man to be linked to organized crime. Only when a snowstorm hits the city will he finally make up his mind.
- From the lights of skyscrapers against the curtain of the night sky, neon lights in the street, the headlights of trains and cars in motion, to the lights that fill each and every home. Fragments of the city float like stardust out of the darkness, leading to a new vision of the city of Tokyo with omnidirectional motion graphics.
- Tess, Mia, Rok and Tiago fly the skies with La Flotte airline, their hearts full of longings, their true natures bubbling just below the surface of their ultra-groomed appearance. The unthinkable happens in mid-flight, leaving them suspended between heaven and earth, past and future, life and death.
- Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems the fruit of man's violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of capitalism, the practice survives today, reflecting humans' eternal destructiveness of nature and the creatures unable to resist them.
- A small Polish village. There is an ongoing mass wild boars hunt because of the spread of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus, which is dangerous for pig farming. Kalina lives in a wooden cottage in the company of hens and a whining dog, which she keeps chained in the yard. One day the dog disappears. While searching for him, Kalina learns about liberty.
- On a different level than the magnetic tape in a video recorder runs a stream through my hands. These opposing realities result not so much in a video but rather in a sculpture. The sculptors have been working on it since the beginning of world history; we have met while searching as channel and medium. This strip, part of the exchange between one's own and the strange, completed by relationships of the seemingly impossible to a sculpture. A sculpture, which is existent as long as these relationships are maintained.
- Begun with a speech by Vito Russo, Letters enjoins a chorus of speakers to sound off on aids, love and death. Impelled with a variety of formal procedures, this series of mini-portraits are generously furnished with found footage extracts, hand processed dilemmas, home movies, super-8 psycho-drama, pixillated phantasms, intergalactic warfare and a hot kiss in a cool shower.
- A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on an aimless excursion through the city. The film depicts a life in a state of transition. "Sometimes it's like I'm already gone, become a ghost of myself."
- Walt Whitman is one of the most important poets in American literature. His main work, Leaves of Grass, was written over a period of forty years, and describes human nature, society, and the natural world, both physically and philosophically. Many have speculated about Whitman's private life, to this day. Whitman never wrote publicly about his personal relationships. In 1860, he published his poem "Once I Passed Through a Populous City", an aphoristic account of a romantic relationship with an unknown woman. In 1925, the original handwritten copy of the poem was discovered, in which Whitman writes, however, not about a woman but about an affair with a man in an anonymous city, which may have been his first physical experience of love. Whitman did not dare to publish the original version of his poem, because of the social prejudices of his time. To this day, only the altered version is printed in most anthologies. "Once I passed" is dedicated, on the one hand, to the obviously autobiographical context with all its personal drama, and on the other hand to the content of the poem itself, the profoundly quiet, yet powerful story of two lovers.
- Following behind the back of a paranoid, neurotic man named Terry as he wanders through the streets of Manhattan. His past memories and irrational inner thoughts soon plague his every move. By channeling a form of mental time travel, Terry attempts to overcome these past anxieties.
- Shadows of Endurance portraits two centuries of American history through stratified layers of time, comparing the lives of the people currently living in Harlan County with the huge amount of oral histories collected and recorded by Italian author, Alessandro Portelli, over 30 years of field research. The film is a journey through different times, each with their ghosts and voices, as a distant echo of a bygone age, re-emerging today in the places and faces explored by the camera.
- A day within a life, re-lived through fragmented memories. Loneliness, abandonment and regret are prevailing themes within cycles of reflection, jest and contradiction. A short documentary examining the consequence of time within the fragility of memory, exposing a sense of self, trapped within materiality and fantasy.
- Nature is in us, in as much as it is in everything that surrounds us. Shot in the midst of nature and lush greenery- a rarity in Indian metros. Captured dancers in different busy urban spaces as well as in the contrasting juxtaposition of the wilderness and in the traffic collapse. The concept is a quest for a new terminology and a new grammar of thinking about contemporary art, to focus on a new meaning of vision and gender.
- The film is inspired by the once huge and luxurious hotels in the former Eastern Bloc designed in the '70s and '80s. Today, their glamour is considered out of date, therefore most of the hotels have been shut down, renovated or demolished. The film is entirely staged in miniature models.