A hamlet in northern Portugal, 50 people, four generations. A year between driving cattle and harvesting, confession and a party to celebrate the slaughtering of the animals. And: boy meets girl – cautiously poetic.
Young Israelis performing a rite of initiation, the “Journey to Poland”: seven days, three mass graves, four concentration camps, and cameras running all the time. An exercise in identity made up of YouTube videos – horror 2.0.
Glaring neon lights, pounding Techno rhythms, lying in the grass, talking and dancing … the midsummer night’s dream of a group of adolescents, a sensuous feast.
For animals killed in a hunt death is the start of an existence as objects. Mounted to look lifelike they are being exhibited – and looking at you.
Fifteen years after her time in Arizona as an exchange student, Fernanda Pessoa returns to find an America between fiction and cliché.
Military service in South Korea is compulsory for every young man and lasts two years. The director accompanies Woochul while he works through his own experiences, too.
A poor old limping dog that lives in a shed. Seen by everybody but not really noticed by anybody … detours via animals lead to atmospheric observations of humans.
A small factory in the middle of Paris where for decades the finest cardboards were manufactured. A last look at a working world driven from our environment and a quiet, finely observed requiem.
The last French coal miners in charismatic photos. The present day holds only precarious jobs for the young generation. The end of work in suggestive images.
Homeless persons occupy the formerly glamorous cinema palace in São Paulo. A theatre workshop recalls the building’s past – and creates projection surfaces for broken biographies.
The cinema Dacia in provincial Romania and Mr. Purice: a Don Quixote fighting against privatisation and digitisation, for his audience and – the dream of cinema.
Conscientious objectors in Russia and their trials: pacifists, gays and political activists caught in the mills of a merciless system with grotesque features.
An asylum for the mentally ill in Juárez, Mexico, where the ex-junkie Josué takes care of the castaways. An amazing ballad of difference and loss, violence and caring.
An opulent film essay celebrating autonomous female sexuality. Its attitude and style playfully take up the feminist departure of the 1970s, but are firmly aimed at the present.
Deep winter in the Bukovina in the thinly populated Danube delta: the season of the tough reed harvest. In this inhospitable and remote region, spirituality offers a sheltering home to the community.
All Denisa really wants is love. She’s been looking for it in men ever since she was a teenager. Mária Brnušáková has filmed her friend over a couple of years – the portrait is rough.
