Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a poetic social commentary on the banal African American life rooted in the deep racist south of Alabama. RaMell Ross’ intimate documentary creates a whole new cinematic language and visual representation for African American male protagonists. The director follows two young men for five years. One of them ends […]
Nikolaus Geyerhalter’s latest film The Border Fence deals with the refugee crisis from the perspective of regular people. A pass between Italy and Austria in the middle of Tirol suddenly becomes the scene for a refugee crisis, as a border crossing between the European Union and Turkey is closed in 2016. During World War II, people in the […]
Thirteen men and women are sitting in a circle on the red plastic chairs of a closed learning space at the Pompidou Centre library in Paris. What the group members have in common is their slow and fumbling manner of speaking French, as well as the will to understand more of it. The expressions are […]
The Last Greeting Director: Mark Soosaar Country: Eesti Year: 1981 Length: 10 min The Proposal Jill Magid’s personally political The Proposal elegantly polemicizes questions regarding art and the ownership and control over works of art. The inheritance of the acclaimed Mexican architect Luis Barragán was divided in his will to a personal and professional archive, the latter of them having been out of […]
The Curonian Spit sounds like a place-name found on the map sheet of a fantasy novel. It also looks unreal. Part of the narrow peninsula belongs to Lithuania and part to Russia – but its real masters are the great cormorants. Thousands of these birds have settled in the pine forests of the Curonian Spit […]
In the middle of summer, the weather conditions in Bangladesh are harsh; the air is extremely hot, heavy rains often fall, and bugs are swarming everywhere. It is under such conditions that three modern-day bamboo loggers have to float a raft made of over 25,000 logs for 300km along a river. The documentary by Shaheen Dill-Riaz takes […]
The protagonist of this documentary is Jerzy Górski, a triathlete with a history whose motto is “I have always wanted to be the best, no matter what I do”. His story, which was already the subject of the feature film by Łukasz Palkowski „The Fastest”, acquires the virtue of a personal testimony of a sportsman […]
The Zharkov family—father, mother and two young sons—belong to the Dolgan community, one of the last indigenous peoples pursuing their traditional nomadic life in the extreme north of Siberia. The children used to be sent to boarding school, where they became estranged from their family and culture, but nowadays they can get homeschooling from teachers […]
Treasure Island by Guillaume Brac had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the middle of the scorching hot summer of 2018. The documentary follows the summer season of the Île de loisirs recreational park at the outskirts of Paris. Although the film does also feature park administrators and security, immigrant families as well as […]
The documentary film “Ruta” tells about one of the most accomplished Lithuanian athletes, revealing the backstage of her daily workout, work routine and preparation for the race process. Language: English, Lithuanian Subtitles: English