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Jan Svankmajer – Konec stalinismu v Cechách AKA Death of Stalinism in Bohemia...
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of...
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Hal Hartley – The Girl From Monday (2005)
Independent auteur Hal Hartley wrote and directed this satirical exercise in what he calls “fake science fiction.” In the near future, following a violent overthrow of the American government, the...
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Natalya Meshchaninova – Kombinat ‘Nadezhda’ AKA The Hope Factory (2014)
Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl...
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Sofia Norlin –Ömheten AKA Broken Hill Blues (2013)
Underground explosions cause the snow to flutter down from the trees and the houses to shake. The ground beneath Kiruna is so brittle that soon all the inhabitants of Sweden’s northernmost town will...
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Rick Alverson – New Jerusalem (2011)
Sean (Colm O’Leary), an Irish immigrant to America, finds his heart and mind in disarray. Having returned from military service in Afghanistan, he befriends Ike (Will Oldham, A.K.A. Bonnie ‘Prince’...
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Alessandro Cassigoli & Tania Masi – La Deutsche Vita (2013)
Synopsis: What do you do when you’re an underachiever at home? You go to Berlin to become an underachiever there. At least that’s true for thousands of “creatives” who flock to the German capital...
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Dominique Auvray – Duras et le cinéma (2014)
DURAS AND CINEMA Assembling archives, documents, getting ghosts to talk, is always dangerous: there is a risk of losing the living. But Dominique Auvray, who was known to the great lady in more than...
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Katrin Gebbe – Tore tanzt AKA Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)
Synopsis Inspired by atrocious true events, Nothing Bad Can Happen follows Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement who falls in with a dysfunctional family curious...
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Sherif Arafa & Adel Imam – Irhab wal Kabab AKA Terrorism and Barbecue (1993)
Egyptian government employee Ahmed Fateh El-Bab goes to the Education Administration Department at the Tahrir Complex in Cairo to transfer his children to another school. He’s treated with insolence...
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Sabine Boss – Der Goalie bin ig (2014)
Goalie has just been released from prison after spending a year inside for keeping his mouth shut for his best buddy Ueli. He heads for his hometown of Schummertal, a small town where everyone knows...
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Dietrich Brüggemann – Kreuzweg AKA Stations of the Cross (2014)
Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him, to become...
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Tyler Measom & Justin Weinstein – An Honest Liar (2014)
Quote: An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James ‘The Amazing’ Randi. The film brings to life Randi’s...
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Sam Cullman & Jennifer Grausman & Mark Becker – Art and Craft (2014)
Quote: Mark Landis is perhaps the most prolific art forger the U.S. has ever seen. He’s duped curators throughout the nation with precise imitations from Matisse to Picasso, curiously never asking for...
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Jean Cocteau – Orphée (1950)
Orpheus (French: Orphée) is a 1949 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais. This film is the central part of Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Laitakaupungin Valot AKA Lights in the Dusk (2006)
synopsis – AMG: A lonely night watchman finds love but comes to regret it in this offbeat comedy from Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki. Koiskinen (Janne Hyytiainen) works as a security guard at a...
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Nicholas Ray – In a Lonely Place (1950)
Quote: Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is...
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Jean Cocteau – La Belle et la Bete aka beauty and the beast (1946)
It has often been said that Jean Cocteau was the first major poet and writer to treat the cinema with total seriousness. But actually it was the cinema that made him into a major artist. “The movie...
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Robert Altman – McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Quote: “In the opening shots of Robert Altman’s “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” the camera follows John McCabe (Warren Beatty) making his way on horseback through the green-brown hills of the Pacific...
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Luis Buñuel – El AKA This Strange Passion (1953)
Quote: Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry...
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Jean Cocteau – Le sang d’un poete AKA The Blood of a Poet (1930)
Synopsis A poet creates a drawing of a living mouth, which transfers to his hand when he tries to wipe it from the canvas. Later, when he touches a statue with his afflicted hand, the statue comes to...
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