Gerard Ortín Castellví – Reserve (2020)
In Araba (Basque Country), some of the effects arising from the drastic reduction of the wolf population, as well as various human interventions that have been implemented in an attempt to neutralise...
View ArticleMoyra Davey – Hemlock Forest (2016)
Hemlock Forest (2016) weaves references to Mary Wollstonecraft, Chantal Akerman and Karl Ove Knausgaard with Moyra Davey’s own family stories. During the making of Hemlock Forest, Akerman took her own...
View ArticleMariko Miyagi – Nemunoki no uta ga kikoeru AKA Mariko-Mother (1977)
Quote:Mariko-Mother is the second film in a four-part documentary film, directed depicting the children of Nemunoki Gakuen, a nursing home for the physically handicapped. It is a video poetry that...
View ArticleVera Chytilová – Praha – neklidne srdce Evropy (1984)
Documentary essay from famous Czech director Vera Chytilova. History and present of magic city in the heart of Europe. People and Time in new context.Film was produced within series of documentaries...
View ArticleAndreas Voigt – Alfred (1986)
In “Alfred”, his final film at the film school Potsdam-Babelsberg, the documentaryist Andreas Voigt portrays the 76-year old Leipzig communist Alfred Florstedt, whom he had met just before his death...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray – Bala (1976)
SynopsisThis is Satyajit Ray’s magnificent documentary on T Balaswaraswati (1918-1984), the legendary Bharatanatyam Dancer. Made in 1976, when Bala was 59, the documentary traces the biography of...
View ArticleJonas Mekas – As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of...
Jonas Mekas:My film diaries 1970-1979: my marriage, children are born, you see them growing up. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness and beauty, trips to France, Italy, Spain, Austria....
View ArticleYuri Ancarani – Atlantide (2021)
Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon. He lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasure-seeking...
View ArticlePawel Kedzierski & Marcel Lozinski – Happy End (1973)
Quote:Written and produced with Pawel Kedzierski. A purge in the style of those of March 1968 is to take place at a party meeting. Instead, it turns into a psychodrama. Although officially not stopped...
View ArticleMichael Haneke – Michael Haneke interview (2002)
here is a rip of the extra on the kino dvd. a 20 minute interview with haneke with serge toubiana 348MB | 20m 44s | 640×480 | avi...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray – Sukumar Ray (1987)
SynopsisIn 1987, Satyajit Ray made a documentary on a legend of Bengali Literature – Sukumar Ray – incidentally also the father of the filmmaker. Sukumar ray was an extraordinary individual. He was a...
View ArticlePeter Nestler – Die Römerstraße im Aostatal AKA The Roman Street in the Aosta...
Quote: Today, the «Römerstrasse» in Italy’s Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler’s journey explores the moving history of the Aosta valley, which...
View ArticleNicole Vögele – Closing Time (2018)
Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo...
View ArticleFérid Boughedir – Caméra d’Afrique AKA Twenty Years of African Cinema (1983)
Quote:After several decades of colonial cinema using Africa as an exotic setting – often denying humanity and dignity to its people – and 70 years after the invention of the cinema, freshly...
View ArticleVarious – Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
“Wim Wenders was bitten by the 3D bug when he made his 2011 dance docu, “Pina,” and he expands the possibilities of the format still further with “Cathedrals of Culture.” Giving all new meaning to the...
View ArticleSébastien Lifshitz – Petite fille (2020)
The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl system...
View ArticleVera Krichevskaya – F@ck This Job aka Tango with Putin (2021)
SynopsisIn Putin’s Russia, former music radio producer Natasha Sindeeva dreams of becoming famous and decides to build her own TV station to focus on pop culture. Natasha’s journey begins with...
View ArticleLisa Malloy & J.P. Sniadecki – A Shape of Things to Come (2020)
A sensory and cinematic work from the Sonoran Desert in the southern US, where a man lives in a lonely pact with a brutal nature and in the shadow of the apocalypse. 3.14GB | 1h 20m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleAndrea Tonacci – Serras da Desordem AKA The Hills of Disorder (2006)
Plot SynopsisFilmmaker Andrea Tonacci blends documentary elements with expressive visual storytelling in this study of the native peoples of Brazil in the 21st century. Carapiru is a member of one of...
View ArticleLuise Donschen – Ganze Tage zusammen AKA Entire Days Together (2020)
A young girl is cured of her epilepsy just as summer vacation is about to begin. During her last days with her classmates, she’ll come to experience life in a new way. Arranged as a series of...
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