Edward Snowden and the surveillance system: gigantic intelligence service headquarters and a claustrophobically small hiding place. Spectacular and disturbing – a triptych of paranoia.
Barbed wire as an original American symbol. The absurdity of the gating frenzy, told with gusto in great tableaux, with surprising twists and references to the western film genre.
Sex and guns, fitness and fascism, whippings and dolls – what people are up to in their basements in Austria. A touching grotesque, a true Seidl.
The record of an execution: minutely detailed and factual. The perpetrator’s family at the Hospitality Center, the victim’s relatives as radiant winners. Business as usual in Huntsville, Texas.
Battle cries, smoke bombs, cheers, grief. A sequence of motionless shots coalesces into a chronicle of revolutionary awakening. A visual masterpiece.
Twenty, no skills, and “hard to place”: Three young adults try to gain a foothold in the employment market, which means rehearsing roles and being functional. Weird and true.
Two 10- and 13-year-old siblings must choose: get an education and a future or stay with their parents. Two Roma children in a Caucasian chalk circle, in iridescent images.
A psychiatric hospital in Portugal. A play is being rehearsed; an actor moves in to study the residents. Madness, normality and finally a hallucinating horse …
A night shelter in Lausanne. You’re lucky if you can grab a place. The employees are frequently forced to choose between humanity and regulations. A gripping social drama.
100 years ago, stone cutters migrated from Carrara, Italy, to Barre, United States. A polyphonic saga told across generations and a powerful fresco of the hardship and beauty of work.
Three kids on their own in Bucharest’s Roma ghetto. Poverty and drugs, but a youth centre offers a refuge. Can you beat fate? A hopeful drama.
