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- DirectorKazuhiro SôdaStarsShiro HashimotoHiroko KashiwagiToshio KashiwagiThe daily lives of people and stray cats who live in the yard in front of their home in Okayama City, Japan, offers glimpses of the meaning of peace.
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsNicole KidmanMatt DillonJoaquin PhoenixA beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerMonika WilliStarsBirgit MinichmayrFiona ShawRobin A Townsend"I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one's own curiosity and intuition." (Michael Glawogger) More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsVirginie LedoyenCyprien FouquetLászló SzabóWhen the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?
- DirectorEdet BelzbergStarsCristina IonescuMihai Alexandre TudoseVioleta 'Macarena' RosuA profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation's reckless population growth policy during its communist era.
- DirectorMyrna TsapaThe every day life in a Greek Roma settlement in Athens, that is in danger of demolition
- DirectorMyrna TsapaA window into Faoueyia's world.
- DirectorKhavnMichael NoerStarsSadged CernaMenk CruzatAli DoronAbout a dwarf who is venerated as the son of God by his deeply religious followers in the Philippines.
- DirectorMyrna Tsapa
- DirectorPeter LiechtiStarsRoman SignerChristoph M. OhrtA road movie with Roman Signer who travels in the grooves of magically charged landscapes across Europe. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland, it's a large-scale performance art piece at an ideal cruising speed.
- DirectorPhilippe FauconStarsSylvia HaunettoCatherine KleinMark SaportaA young girl is deprived of her baby: her descent into hell begins.
- DirectorPeter LiechtiDuring the spring thaw, when the mounts in Appenzell (Alpstein massif) are clad in a patchwork of green and white, buckets filled with water glide slowly up and down the slope. The gentle movement ultimately develops into a fierce cadence.
- DirectorArunas MatelisFilmed in Uzupis, an old neighbourhood in Vilnius, Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus primarily offers a view of destruction and ruin, but at the same time you can feel something in the air. It is this evocative power that makes Matelis one of the most highly-praised filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe today.
- DirectorPascal AubierA documentary about the parisian night-club "Bus Palladium"
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsPierre SantiniJosette BarnetcheBrice PerissonA factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts. A worker opens small bags under a spout that spews beans into the bag. The worker must open a new bag quickly before the spout dispenses more beans. He sets each full bag on a rack; another worker seals the bags. When the worker loses his rhythm and gets the bags late to the spout, beans pile up around him. His boss hollers. Cut to his flat where his aproned wife cooks dinner as their daughter plays. He storms in, snarls at the cooking food, and stomps out. Mom snivels, then trips on a toy, so the kid gets yelled at. The child kicks the dog who worries the cat who pounces.... The factory siren sounds.
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsElizabeth Prouvost
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsRachid Diafi
- DirectorArunas MatelisThe film based on a strange old pagan tradition, still preserved in only one village in Semogitia (a part of Lithuania). The tradition goes back to the archaic space of the magic's of folk theater. The tradition - guarding the God on the Easter night - have mixed pagan and Christianity rituals.
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsEmma O'ConnorCecelia SpechtLászló Szabó
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsGroseilleLeslie Ann HookerPascale Paoli
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsDominique Hulin
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsPascal AubierIliana LolicCharlie Nelson
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsOlivia BrunauxPascal AubierMacha Méril
- DirectorOtar IosselianiUnder the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to generation, what Otar Iosseliani captures in reality is the snapshot of a not-so-distant past that coexists with the world we might know yet transports us to what used to be.
- DirectorDerek JarmanA short experimental Super 8 film made by Jarman in 1971, it charts a walking journey he made through the Wiltshire landscape to the Neolithic stones at Avebury.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsGerald IncandelaA three-minute black and white film which begins with a portrait of Karen Blixen taken from a photograph.
- DirectorDerek JarmanIn the first section of the film the image of spiral galaxy provides a backdrop for overlaid film sequences. The film appears to started as tinted monochrome, later switching to colour.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsGerald IncandelaLuciana MartínezKevin WhitneyAn abstract film shot in super 8 features figures moving in the foreground and background of an empty space holding mirrors which occasionally flash in the lens of the camera. The images portrayed in the film are reminiscent of Jarman's "Abstract Landscape" paintings of the same period.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsKarl BowenGraham DowieChristopher HobbsA collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.
- DirectorPedro PiresStarsYvon CanacAlexandre DemardHubert DemardThis documentary film explores the journey of Alex, a man suffering from schizophrenia, who is trying to find his place in the world by pursuing an artistic path and a quest for love that push him beyond his usual emotional boundaries.
- DirectorPeter MettlerStarsJustine BellinskyGovindaPeter MettlerA filmmaker's inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street life in Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Everywhere along the way, the same themes are to be found: thrill-seeking, luck, destiny, belief, expanding perception, the craving for security in an uncertain world. Fact joins with fantasy; the search for meaning and the search for ecstasy begin to merge.
- DirectorBill Ross IVTurner RossStarsPeter ElwellMichael MartinShay WalkerA look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinStarsStephen DwoskinAstley HarveyCombines interviews, archival footage and Dwoskin's thoughtful remarks to arrive at a scrupulous anatomy of pain (disease, dental work and sadomasochism). Chats with chronic pain patients or those who are exacting it as an act of pleasure.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinStarsAstley HarveyStephen Dwoskin tells the double story on memory, bringing together the beauty of its documents and the sadness of its elusiveness. Extracts from the filmmaker's own films are collaged with photographs and bits of home movies, stills, etc.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinThe singing voice of the last of a London drunk as the orchestra raises him to heaven.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinStarsClodagh BrownAn experimental black and white film by Stephen Dwoskin focusing on body paint and the female form.
- DirectorPhuttiphong AroonphengStarsAphisit HamaWanlop RungkumjadRasmee WayranaNear a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend's life - his house, his job and his ex-wife.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinFilmmaker Stephen Dwoskin presents and manipulates old home movie footage of his grandfather.
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsAlexis BistikasRupert ColeHarry DonnisonA brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStavros ZalmasValda Z. DrablaHoward NapperA gay poet heads west from New York City in his convertible. He picks up a muscular sailor who's bisexual; then Jackie, a waitress at a diner, joins them. Jackie is attracted to the poet who rebuffs her romantic gestures; rejection fuels her continued interest in him. The sailor and the poet are bonded by sex, but the sailor's frank advances to Jackie make him uninteresting to her. The sailor can get violent, the poet is passive, Jackie is glamorous and detached. The landscape changes, they stop in cities and in the desert. They reach a lake. Who will be left out of a final pairing?
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStavros ZalmasPanagiotis TsitsasIlias MarmarasIlias, a young man of Athens, meets Panagiotis, a new-comer from Albania and falls in love with him. He pays dearly for the relationship.
- DirectorGeorgis GrigorakisStarsVangelis MourikisArgyris PandazarasSofia KokkaliA father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsCoralie SeyrigDelphine SeyrigKeeping the original theatrical mise-en-scene, the film features Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig reciting Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother directly to the audience as though we were the recipients of these private missives
- DirectorClaire SimonThere is a kind of country, very small, so small that it looks a bit like a theater scene. It is inhabited two or three times a day by its people. The inhabitants are small in size. If they live according to laws, in any case, they do not stop to question them, and to fight violently about it.
- DirectorGiedre ZickyteStarsTatjana LuckieneVitas LuckusSome called him a madman, others - a genius. Because he kept a live lion in his apartment. Because he was the first to go beyond Lithuanian surroundings and document the spontaneous reality of Soviet Republics. He worked a lot and drank a lot. He lived in Vilnius with his beautiful wife Tatyana. They were the vibrant couple of the '60s. Just as vibrant was their home, always full of people, wine, nightlong conversations, guests from the farthermost places of the Soviet Union. He was engulfed by his passion for truth and photography.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéAn octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close; blowing water propels it through water. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the aggressor here. Mating is repeated over hours and days. With high magnification, we see many sperm; she releases strings of fertilized eggs that hang from the roof of a nest. She guards it for a month, fanning the strings to circulate water for oxygen and cleanliness. We watch the eggs up close develop at 1,400 times nature's rate. Then they're born and propel away.
- DirectorJean PainlevéExamines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal bulge houses organs including an air ballast. Three fins propel this fish. We see a female place her eggs in a male's pouch where they are fertilized and nurtured until birth in violent contractions. Inside the pouch are nurturing blood vessels. We then follow the growth of an embryo, greatly magnified: we examine its heart beating and its dorsal fin moving. Young sea horses attach themselves to each other. The film ends with images of many sea horses moving on the ocean floor, superimposed on a horse race.
- DirectorJean PainlevéStarsMax SchreckA short look at the vampire bat sucking blood from a guinea pig.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsRaimund AbrahamMarina AbramovicBjörkA stroll with Jonas Mekas through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars and clubs.
- DirectorSusanna BarandzhiyevaVitaliy ManskiyAleksandr RastorguevA drunk couple spend their summer-holiday at sea. Their life is not everything they hoped for, and abuse is part of their relationship. At sea they dream about love and understanding, and we observe their fellow countrymen spending their holidays on the same beach. Tragedy, comedy, love, hate, sex : it is all there.
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsDanièle DelormeNathalie DelonPatrick PennYoung man Francois Nole works in a Bank. Often skips a walk, and one day he never comes to work. He goes to bed and refuses stand. Francois is a heroin addict, who has lost the joy of life. Nothing could bring him back from the darkness and despair no mother, no friends, no holidays, no love. One day, he suddenly changes,it becomes cheerful and calm...
- DirectorGuy GillesStarsMacha MérilPatrick JouanéBernard VerleyA young girl remembers her impossible love for a melancholic boy.
- DirectorClaire SimonStarsMimi ChiolaDiego OrigliaMohamed MokhtariMimi isn't a star, she's just someone. A close-up of the singularity of a real life. An encounter of someone's particular story, romance, fantasy and territories.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMakiko EsumiTakashi NaitôTadanobu AsanoA young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
- DirectorYvan LagrangeStarsDominique GuezenecBotticelli's Venus emerges from the waters, that of Yvan Lagrange, is she shipwrecked?.
- DirectorPeter Emmanuel GoldmanStarsPierre ClémentiKatinka BoPierre BesançonAfter experiencing a wild life of sordidness, the young Pierre decides to quit this chaotic world, trading it for a search for inner peace and getting closer to God. During this quest, he's followed by a girl from Denmark, of whom he becomes friend for a while. However, Pierre isn't close to reach his spiritual enlightenment, since he's still tormented by visions, vivid dreams and strange hallucinations.
- DirectorPierre ClémentiStarsBalthazar ClémentiMargareth ClémentiPierre ClémentiA cult art-cinema actor's trance-like psychedelic poem in 16mm.
- DirectorPierre ClémentiStarsBarbara GirardPierre ClémentiÉtienne O'LearyShot in 1967 but not released until 1976, actor Pierre Clémenti's acid-infused experimental whirlwind of color and music featuring a who's who of the French 60s underground.
- DirectorPierre ClémentiStarsNadine ClémentiPierre ClémentiOlivier CorneilleNecrocity, a city of nightly terrors and a place where even the authorities seem to reinforce this state of mayhem, as a way to impose cruel laws and the use of police brutality with efficiency. While most of the underground citizens are only concerned about pleasures, drinking, using drugs, partying hard and all, a huge load of heroin has gone missing, and that's another indicative that a terrible crime wave is on the rise.
- DirectorNikos ChantzisStarsKostas AggelidisNikos AggelisAlexandrosA concise documentation of Minimal Synth and Synthpunk scene in Greece since the 80's, starring the synthesizers, the rhythm-boxes and the guys who loved them.
- DirectorÉtienne O'LearyStarsMichel AssoMichel AuderYves Beneyton"Homeo: Minor death: Coming back from goin' home" - A travelogue of sorts, O'Leary second work blends cityscapes, nature, summer holidays, and charismatic portraits all together, with everything awash in radiant colors. The droning harmonium soundtrack provides a continuous pulse, with occasional flutters that match the quasi-spiritual vision quests.
- DirectorAlexander NanauStarsDan Alexandru CondreaLiviu IoluRazvan LutacDirector Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsKatia PascariuClaudia IeremiaNicodim UngureanuEmi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsKim Min-heeKwon Hae-hyoLee Eun-miWhile her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsAdam DriverMarion CotillardSimon HelbergA stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsIrène JacobJean-Louis TrintignantFrédérique FederA model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsZbigniew ZamachowskiJulie DelpyJanusz GajosAfter his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsJuliette BinocheZbigniew ZamachowskiJulie DelpyA woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovDodo AbashidzeStarsVeriko AnjaparidzeTamari TsitsishviliDudukhana TserodzeA film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovDodo AbashidzeStarsYuri MgoyanSofiko ChiaureliRamaz ChkhikvadzeA talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.
- DirectorAlexandra Gulea
- DirectorAlexandra GuleaStarsAdrianBicuFilip
- DirectorBinka ZhelyazkovaThe fundamental questions of human life about guilt, repentance, and redemption are posed in the two documentary essay - about the grief of the women from Sliven Prison who give birth to their children behind bars. Binka Zhelyazkova diagnoses the public through the stories of her heroines. The film does not appear on the screens after their creation, but only after the changes in 1989.
- DirectorBinka ZhelyazkovaStarsKosta TsonevYanina KashevaKliment DenchevThe story begins with a serious disillusionment experienced by a young girl at her school-leaving farewell ball. Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party. The generation gap is a wide one, but Bella falls sway to his intelligence, friends, his life-style and the respect everybody shows for her. Boyan is an actor and comic impersonator. The complex relationships among the three characters hover between friendship and love and involve certain professional motifs. The architect, an even-tempered man, is dispirited because the bold design decisions he has been taking have been regularly rejected. The overly playful actor surrounded by dummies and stage-pros, builds his life exclusively on outer effects. But deep inside he is sad because he knows that he has no real talent. Bella, unexpectedly mature for her age, cannot remain indifferent to the falsehoods and the indifferent attitude to life. She is in conflict with her own mother - a shallow television journalist. Bella's unconscious protest finds its real bearings only when she gets a glimpse of anti-fascist past of the architect who is already infatuated with her. At the end, she marries his best friend, Boyan, though Apostol would be the most important person in her lifetime. The film is notable for the vivid symbolism of its imagery. The swimming pool is not only the place of the action but also a metaphor of human life.
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsBaran RasoulofZhila ShahiMahtab ServatiThe four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
- DirectorYorgos GoussisStarsElena TopalidouAntonis TsiotsiopoulosNikos SpanidesHaving met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
- DirectorBinka ZhelyazkovaStarsYanina KashevaMalgorzata BraunekTanya ShahovaFriends of different generations, practicing different professions, spend together their summer holidays at the seaside every year. It is sunny; they look carefree and happy. They know each other very well, they are used to each other. To such an extent, that bore becomes inevitable. It is boredom that incites them to play a dangerous game. The end is dramatic: a young boy gets killed. It is the moment to draw the bottom line. The question is: Isn't the death of the spirit worse than of the body?
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsPina BauschChantal AkermanChantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on stage but also behind the scenes.
- DirectorPina BauschStarsAnne Marie BenatiBénédicte BillietRolando Brenes CalvoIntersecting scenes thru the seasons in the Wuppertal area in which performers appear in cafes, flower shops and pools and traverse streets, fields and forests, accompanied by folk songs and popular music.
- DirectorAlexandros FassoisStarsNikos KalamosMania PapadimitriouLefteris VlachosCitizen Monikin: The Person and the City is an ambient film concerning the play "The Pre-last of the Monikins - A monologue without a beginning and without an end" of Paris Tacopoulos. It is a film in Beckett's style-atmosphere and Joyce's style-content as a narrative peculiarity imposed by oral speech when encountering the moving image. The filmmaker, as the manager of his own look, always aims at the realm of the "other person".
- DirectorNilita VachaniJosephine works as a babysitter in Athens. She returns to Sri Lanka one Christmas to meet her children after an absence of 10 years.
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsKotone FurukawaAyumu NakajimaHyunriAn unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
- DirectorNikos ZiogasA lyrical documentary film, an elegy to Epirus that fades away, but also to Epirus that survives. A love song for those who stayed, for those who migrated, for its musicians and its unique nature. A journey to Giromeri, Thesprotia, during the Easter days. Through the cinematic lens, we observe the everyday life of this little village and search for the roots of a very special tradition. An attempt - contrary to the relentless digitization of our times - to keep the analog memory of the Greek countryside alive: a life memento.
- DirectorCarlos AgullóStarsPablo IglesiasA film that follows the everyday life of a hospice care unit. It shows us the most human side of medicine full of charisma and even humor.
- DirectorDon LevyStarsMichael GothardGabriella LicudiPeter StephensWhen young poet Max (Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.
- DirectorJón Bjarki MagnússonStarsHulda JónsdóttirTrausti Breiðfjörð MagnússonTrausti the lighthouse keeper prepares his hundredth birthday and/or funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Meanwhile, Hulda retreats into a world of poetry with the help of an electric magnifying glass.
- DirectorAlisi TelengutStarsQirima TelengutA profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel's emotion and tears.
- DirectorMarek MouckaA train colliding with a suicide is unstoppable, just like this world. Fractions of a second decide what the driver will dream about and how it will affect their psyche.
- DirectorVania Quevedo