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Claude Lanzmann – Napalm (2017)
We are living through a mini-boom in documentaries about North Korea. Film-makers are getting into Pyongyang to shoot – clandestinely, semi-clandestinely and on various pretexts – those vast statues...
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Ingmar Bergman – Ansiktet AKA The Magician (1958)
When ‘Vogler’s Magnetic Health Theater’ comes to town, there’s bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler’s prior performances abroad, the leading...
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Sharunas Bartas – Frost (2017)
Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast...
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Simon Lavoie – La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes AKA The Little...
Quote: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (orig French La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) is a novel by Canadian novelist Gaétan Soucy. La petite fille qui aimait trop les...
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman – Taskafa, Stories from the Street [+ Interview] (2013)
Structured around readings by renowned critic and essayist John Berger, TASKAFA (2013, 66 mins) offers a brilliantly incisive meditation on urban space and city life by investigating the complex...
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Nina Danino – Three Diary Pieces (1985-1992)
Close to Home “ In the first part, the camera travels around (West) Berlin like a tourist picking out touristic monuments and describing them in terms of their significance to military history….the...
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J. Lee Thompson – Cape Fear (1962)
The Original Masterpiece of Revenge, Confrontation and Murder! Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum star in Hollywood’s classic tale of revenge and murder. Robert Mitchum is unforgettable as Max Cady, an...
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Xiaogang Feng – Fang hua AKA Youth (2017)
Synopsis: A look at the lives of members of a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s. Review: Mixing graceful dance scenes with gruesome battle sequences, Youth presents a rose-tinted view of China’s...
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John Akomfrah – The March (2013)
Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This programme tells the story of the...
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Arnaud Desplechin – Les fantômes d’Ismaël (2017)
IMDB quote: The story follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film....
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Lawrence Jordan – The Apoplectic Walrus (2015)
Joanna wanted a film on the collages of Max Ernst, and I wanted to make a tribute to the two men who most influenced my film work at the beginning: Max Ernst (collage) and Luis Bunuel (surrealism in...
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Salah Abouseif – She’ Mn El Azab AKA The Torment (1969)
A desperate woman on the run from the police for having killed her stepfather seeks refuge in a villa of a famous artist. The Arabic title of the film is شيء من العذاب....
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Aleksey Uchitel – Matilda (2017)
Matilda is а 2017 Russian historical romantic drama film directed by Alexey Uchitel. It was released in cinemas on October 26, 2017. The picture tells the story about the relationship between...
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Werner Nekes – Diwan (1974)
Quote: “Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it....
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Alfred Hitchcock – The 39 Steps [+commentary] (1935)
Quote: Fresh, funny, and filled with typically Hitchcockian suspense, The 39 Steps fully demonstrates the director’s unshaken status as a cinematic master. Based on the 1915 novel by John Buchan, this...
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Mario Camerini – Il signor Max AKA Mister Max (1937)
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise...
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Wanda Jakubowska – Ostatni etap AKA The Last Stage (1948)
Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz concentration camp with her family. On the first day of their arrival Martha is, by a coincidence, chosen as an interpreter, but her entire family is killed....
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José Pedro Lopes – A Floresta das Almas Perdidas AKA The Forest of Lost Souls...
A man walks through the Forest of Lost Souls, a place where many go to end their lives. Ricardo is a depressed family father looking for the place where his daughter killed herself. Carolina is a...
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Éva Gárdos – Budapest Noir (2017)
Quote: A journalist specialising in criminal cases, trained in the United States and very well-connected in police circles, Zsigmond Gordon (the incredible Krisztián Kolovratnik) has no interest in...
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Estevão Meneguzzo & Andre Felix – Valentina (2017)
English: As a young archivist labours on the reassembly of a long-lost film print, her emotional life spirals into a tumultuous state that is mirrored in the degradation of the frames she so...
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