Determined to become a great artist, Ulrike Ottinger moves to Paris in 1962. This cinematic “figurative poem” is a portrait of the city, a self-portrait, and a carefree but carefully crafted dialogue between yesterday and today.
Palme D'Or winner Jacques Audiard (RUST AND BONE, DHEEPAN) returns with an adaptation of KILLING AND DYING, the graphic novel by Adrian Tomine, a modern tale of love and friendship, co-written with Léa Mysius and Céline Sciamma and filmed in a sumptuous black and white.
The video was created as a response to the rise of COVID-19 worldwide, and the emergence of lockdown policies. It portrays one’s failure of escaping the hold of the social structure, in an era of surveillance capitalism. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2021
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality. The latest film by Kirill Serebrennikov (LETO), which premiered at the Cannes Official Competition.
When a rumor spreads that a leopard has been seen in the deserts of Arad, Abigail decides to join the search with a group of boys from her neighborhood. A journey in which Abigail will have to deal with a new reality. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 1
Sophie, 26, just found out she landed that job with a famous Parisian publisher. Her dream? Not exactly: she would rather see her own graphic work printed…. When she tells her boyfriend Jean that she is pregnant, everything explodes. They break up and she must return to waiting tables like her friend Julia, an aspiring actress.
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads, and checkpoints, how easy will it be to go shopping? 2021 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Live Action
The film investigates three generations of women in search of their identity within the context of their shared family history. Beginning with a confidential adoption in 1927, the film traces key traumas that each woman encountered. The narrative is built upon bureaucratic documents and personal letters set against the backdrop of eighty years of family photographs mixed with paintings and stills taken by the artist, inspired by these images. The Experimental Cinema and Video Art Awards 2021
Wassim Razzouk, the sole heir of 500-year lineage of Coptic Christians tattoo artists from Jerusalem, sets out to complete his collection of ancient wooden stencils before they are lost forever. during his journey he discovers that his family is hiding not only stencils, but haunting secrets.
Suleiman El-Abid was sentenced to 27 years in jail for the rape and murder of Hanit Kikos, based on his confession alone. A few days after reenacting the crime he retracted his confession and has been claiming innocence ever since. Did he receive a fair trial or did the justice systems incriminate him to whitewash their own failures?
We enter the Roj prison camp in Syria, which holds families of ISIS fighters. Among them, British recruit Shamima Begum, who fled London when she was 15, and Hoda Muthana, from the USA, who allegedly incited her followers on Twitter. Universally reviled by the media, they now tell their stories for the very first time.
An American couple attend the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught in the magic of the Festival, Spain’s beauty and charm, and the fantasy of the movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, while he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman.
Roberto Rossellini, Italian neorealism’s legendary film director, was the head of a large family now dispersed across the globe. Alessandro Rossellini, the eldest grandson, brings his family together in a witty portrayal of their bittersweet lives, dominated by the master’s charismatic and forceful presence.
Is the number six million - the sacred tally of Jews killed under Nazi rule - a symbol in our collective memory that we should not question, or is understanding it the only way to defend it?
1938. While Nazi troops march into Vienna, Josef Bartok hastily tries to escape to the USA but is arrested by the Gestapo. Thrown into solitary confinement, Bartok is psychologically tormented for months. However, when he steals an old book about chess it sets him on a course to overcome his mental suffering.
Manny (Jon Voight) is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck (Eric Roberts), makes a daring breakout. Hopping a freight train, they head for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they find themselves speeding towards certain disaster. Presented together with Barfly Prior to the screening, a panel discussion with Quentin Tarantino
Ruso, a migrant worker from Georgia, begins another cleaning shift at the University. She keeps her head down, does her job as required, and passes the shift on phone calls with her son. Usually no one notices her. Not today. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 2
When Aya misses the last bus out of Jerusalem, she realizes she is stuck for the weekend. She settles into a mundane routine of binge watching, until a call from a classmate transforms the blah into something different. Israeli Short Film Competition - Program 4
Following the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Alma, a young widow bears a restless urge to help people in need. Her unconventional methods of philanthropy will take her on a journey of self-discovery.
Alain is an international auditor who arrives at the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in the Caucasus to green light its eventual reopening. Through Edgar, a local boy running a make-shift business in the airport, Alain will risk everything to facilitate the opening of this isolated territory.
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught feelings in the making of her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
The implausible second career of Albert Speer: How did a man in charge of 12 million slaves become “the good Nazi”? A cautionary tale about his 1971 attempt to whitewash his past with a Hollywood adaptation of his memoir, "Inside the Third Reich.”
"My archive of objects is equal to the no less real archive of my memory. They animate each other and bring forth ever new and unexpected images and ideas. It is as if one were watching, as it takes shape, the play of thinking with its infinite interconnections." (Ulrike Ottinger) Ottinger Shorts Program
Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature film is a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishingly formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that would later make him legendary in films like IL GRIDO, L'AVVENTURA, and BLOW-UP.
