简介:The viewer is lured deep into a dilapidated glasshouse, a place where nature is traditionally tamed and studied, by a ghostly figure, dancing to a variation on the popular song from Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). As the music fades out, he makes way for
简介:Inspired by the novel The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, filmmaker Karel Doing places himself as the protagonist of this escapade into unseen ecologies. The secret medicinal properties of plants are shared, along with their peculiar characteristics.
简介:Three generations of women, whose lived experience of migration is fundamentally different yet inextricably intertwined. What has been passed down from one to another is what connects them, but also precisely what sets them apart. With warm sincerity, thi
简介:Temo is an unemployed actor who drives around 100km a day on a scooter, performing the duty of a delivery man. Based on the novel Courier’s Tales by Temo Rekhviashvili, who plays himself in the film, Anka Gujabidze crafts a poignant but humorous black and
简介:Desktop images, letters, text messages, interviews and CCTV footage, this aesthetically eclectic, politically daring collection of films by Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema stresses the need for criticality in times of censorship and repression.
简介:Inspired by the painting Self-Portrait with Rifle (1912) by Nasta Rojc, Katarina Zdjelar constructs a meditative piece of film that cinematically connects present and past. Superimposed shots of two women in their domestic spheres convey a temporal connec
简介:A cattle farmer who aspires to be a stage actor, Das works with a cosmopolitan theatre troupe headed by an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed director. When the director’s tantrums unearth buried resentments among the group’s members, the play they are rehearsing
简介:“Taji: Be careful about every story. Olivewiist, Sohrab and Fereydoon An Yaz, Hazrat Yusuf was four years old, dear Egypt. Say the Prophet Moses; The same world that came to the water. Mashala don’t become a giant, Patton here. It’s time to show itself …
简介:A group of Gen-Z/Millennial friends plan a goodbye for their friend, while coming face-to-face with, but pushing back at, patriarchal realities. Sahand Kabiri presents a personal portrait of middle-class young adult life in contemporary Tehran: vibrant an
简介:The Iranian King gets an invitation to visit France. While visiting a "Romeo and Juliet" play in Paris, the actress catches his eye. He falls in love with her so deeply that he asks her to perform the same play in Tehran, so he can impress her a