A charcoal maker and his wife in Transylvania have become an attraction for tourists keen to take pictures of real poverty, while they themselves are dreaming of the Caribbean ... a caustic satire.
A box full of documents and souvenirs found in the dustbin – material for the reconstruction of the life of an eccentric couple of artists, somewhere between fiction and reality.
Bare corridors, narrow cells: a Helsinki shelter for the homeless and its inhabitants. Traces of lives and interior worlds in long dolly shots and subtle sound collages.
While Anita keeps everything going Amadeu sinks into dementia. A tender look at the drama of old age and a big question: Do you still love me?
Otto, born in 1907, was not like the other villagers. The portrait of a “character” and “village idiot” who may have been a genius emerges like a puzzle. A modern “heimatfilm”.
Migrant workers in Bangalore City. Mobile phones and Bollywood help tell tales of a distant lover as a memory, desire, and gap.
Young Russians are digging up the remains of World War II soldiers’ bodies. Rare archival footage. The eerie encounter of a lost future with the present day.
Emergency calls: a birth, an accident, the last radio message of the “Estonia”. And images from space. An experimental exploration of the worst case and an ethereal warning.
How do you carry a handcuffed person? What do you do when they fight back? Recruits of the Dutch Federal Police training for deportations.
The video diary of a young woman from Syria. A war refugee, she and her family are now prisoners in a flat. A sensitive appraisal and rare document.
A San Francisco bus becomes a night shelter for the poor and homeless. A great portrait of society in a little sketch.
A French boy who grows up in a yurt in the forest, at one with nature and without electricity, wants to go to a “real” school... a modern Tom Sawyer in magic images.
Parents who don’t act like parents and a little girl who keeps escaping from them: by running away and dreaming up a fantasy world. A fairytale without a happy ending.
Dust or mud, potholes, stray dogs, grumpy shop owners and coachmen, curses and jokes. A street in Kabul becomes a loveable symbol of the whole country.
Gaps in a family and a country, the traces of a mother and the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, in grainy images and memories. A poetic picture puzzle.
The grandmother, 96 and demented Grande dame, becomes a child; the daughter becomes a mama. Filmed by the granddaughter. A gently shimmering small jewel full of tender metaphors and wit.
