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Toshiaki Toyoda – Senritsu seshimeyo AKA Shiver (2021)
Quote:Essentially a series of vignettes that present an impressive combination of image and sound, “Shiver” seems to focus on concepts as tradition, through a distinct jidai-geki approach, nature and...
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Wim Wenders – The Soul of a Man (2003)
About the filmQuote:In “The Soul of A Man,” director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite...
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Anne Charlotte Robertson – Depression, Focus Please (1984)
Quote:“Intended as a longer film, this proved sufficient to vignette the nuances of my sadness.” — Anne Charlotte Robertson 36.1MB | 3m 19s | 720×536 | mkv...
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Pietro Marcello & Francesco Munzi & Alice Rohrwacher – Futura (2021)
Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello, and Francesco Munzi, three of the most interesting voices in contemporary Italian filmmaking, pool their talent in this captivating collective work, with a...
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Nuno Leonel & Joaquim Pinto – Rabo de Peixe (2015)
Rabo de Peixe is a fishing village in the Azores. Between 1999 and 2001, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel shot a documentary there about the disappearing traditional fishing methods. The TV channel which...
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Luc Moullet – Terres noires (1961)
A documentary shot by Moullet in 16mm, about two remote, underdeveloped villages, one in the Alps and one in the Pyrenees. It is Moullet’s version of Buñuel’s Las Hurdes (Land without Bread, 1932)...
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Jürgen Böttcher – Notwendige Lehrjahre AKA Necessary Years of Learning (1960)
Quote:Böttcher made his graduation film NOTWENDIGE LEHRJAHRE (1960) about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking feature of his later films...
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Charles Huguenot van der Linden & Heinz Josephson – Nederlands in zeven...
A cameraman is given a week to photograph the aerial highlights of Holland for a travelogue. 235MB | 1h 08m | 600×480 | mkv...
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Josef Aichholzer & Ruth Beckermann – Wien retour AKA Return to Vienna (1983)
Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the variety of the Jewish population of the so called Matzah-Island, his commitment to the worker’s movement of the Red Vienna and the rise of...
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Lola Arias – Teatro de guerra AKA Theatre of War (2018)
The Falklands War lasted from April to June of 1982 and took the lives of 655 Argentinian and 255 British soldiers. It ended in Argentina’s military defeat and in territorial claims on both sides that...
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Peter Bo Rappmund – Tectonics (2012)
A survey of the physical qualities and metaphysical quandaries of the United States-Mexico border. Follows the boundary and its immediate surrounding topography incrementally from the Gulf of Mexico...
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Ghassan Halwani – Tirss, rihlat alsoo’oud ila almar’i AKA Erased, Ascent of...
Quote:Ghassan Halwani’s debut feature ruminates on the thousands who disappeared during the Lebanese Civil War and their still-present absence in the lives of their loved ones.It begins with a...
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Ivan Golovnev – Malenkaya Katerina AKA Tiny Katerina (2004)
Ivan Golovnev (filmmaker) was born in 1978 in Omsk, a city in Siberia. His father is a scholar of history, ethnography, and anthropology who teaches at universities around the world, including the...
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Frank Simon & Roman Polanski – Weekend of a Champion (1972)
In 1971, Motor Racing fan Roman Polanski spent a weekend with world champion driverJackie Stewart as he attempted to win the Monaco Grand Prix. Polanski was given intimateaccess to Stewart’s world for...
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Steven Soderbergh – And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
Quote:Soderbergh has brought us SPALDING GRAY’S FINAL MONOLOGUE with the film, “And Everything Is Going Fine”. He compiles what is essentially a final autobiographical testament of Gray’s life using...
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Stanley Kubrick – The Seafarers (1953)
Members of the American Federation of Labor, the Atlantic & Gulf Coast District of the Seafarers International Union commissioned budding filmmaker and magazine photographer Stanley Kubrick to...
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Woody Allen – 60 Minutes and PEN Conference Raw Footage (1987)
Quote: In 1987, Woody Allen was at the height of his fame and adulation: he had just made one of his most popular and acclaimed films, Hannah and Her Sisters, and his relationship with Mia Farrow was...
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Leo Hurwitz – Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980)
The late filmmaker Leo Hurwitz created this documentary tribute to his deceased wife Peggy Lawson by mixing both actual footage of historical events, clips from his own films, and personal...
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Vera Chytilová – Pátrání po Ester AKA In Search of Ester (2005)
Ester Krumbachová – an artist, screenwriter, director, one of the most important names of the Czech New Wave. She worked for the theatre, wrote, illustrated. She was in the middle of the artistic life...
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Pedro González-Rubio – Alamar (2009)
Jorge has only a few weeks with his five-year-old son Natan before he leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine...
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