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- DirectorFrédéric CousseauBlandine Huk
- DirectorJørgen LethStarsJørgen LethKim LarsenAndy WarholAs a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. With the one travelling shot (through a car windscreen) and one pan (across a landscape) the tableau principle is only breached on two occasions; exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. The images or postcards may be viewed as a number of interlaced chains of motifs, varying from ultra close up to super wide, include pictures of landscapes, highways and advertising hoardings, buildings seen from without, mostly with a fluttering Stars and Stripes somewhere in the shot, objects such as coins on a counter, refrigerator with a number of typical food products, a plate of food at a diner or a bottle of Wild Turkey, and finally, people who introduce themselves (and sometimes the content of their lives in rough-hewn form) facing the camera: for example, the New York cabbie or the celebrities Kim Larsen and Andy Warhol. The film actually consists of 75 shots but in some cases several shots combine in one scene, thus ending on sixty six. Each scene is delimited by the narrator; at the end of each shot he pins down the picture content, often by a simple indication of time or place, but in some cases more playfully, often shifting our perception in a surprising fashion. Similarly the sound close-ups in some scenes are intended to alter the viewer's immediate interpretation of the picture content, while the mood-creating or interpretive use of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes (No. 5) provides the final component of the film.
- DirectorJørgen LethStarsHenree AlyseJohn AshberyJohn CaleA look at post-9/11 America by the Danish documentarian.
- DirectorRoger KupelianIn the early 1990's, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated, two former Soviet Republics, Armenia and Azerbaijan, squared off against each other over the fate of the 170,000 Armenians living in the small mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The war eventually claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced close to a million people. By the time of the tenuous cease-fire, most of the enclave was in the hands of its longtime Armenian inhabitants. Dark Forest in the Mountains was shot on location in Nagorno-Karabakh and uses a mix of digital animation, live footage and expert interviews to tell the story of that region of the world, and the events that led up to the conflict. It also focuses on N.K.'s northernmost territory, Shahumian, and the partisans who manned its treacherous Gulistan Front.
- DirectorAlicia HarrisonIn the intimacy of the taxicab, New York's immigrant taxi drivers tell their stories of exile. While sketching the outlines of tomorrow's American, their tales question what it means to try to become who you want to be: how do you find your way, 'my way'? How do you drive the vehicle of life? Together, they weave a collective fable of exile and choice.
- DirectorYorgos AvgeropoulosStarsYorgos AvgeropoulosYanis VaroufakisAfter Agora: From Democracy to the Market (2014), which created quite a stir and was internationally awarded, Yorgos Avgeropoulos returns with his second film on the Greek crisis. Having gained an in depth access to the country's political scene and after having closely followed the documentary's protagonists, Avgeropoulos composes a political thriller and a profoundly human film that unfolds his home country's tumultuous situation over the last five years, raising crucial questions concerning the future not only of Greece but Europe as well.