Rising up at Night
Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, Rising Up At Night is a subtle and fragmented portrait of a population that, despite the challenges, is sublimated by the beauty of Kinshasa's nights.
“an almost ethereal experience through editing, gorgeous cinematography and an intuitive, haunting score" - Business Doc Europe
Pandora's Legacy
A journey through the family universe of GW Pabst, giant of early cinema, told
through the eyes of the woman who was his great love and lifelong partner:
Trude Pabst. A film about dream and trauma, and about why we become who
we are.
"It’s fascinating to hear the letters Georg and Trude wrote to one another when they were young, it becomes mesmerising when his next of kin discuss him in detail, separating the myths from their precious recollections. Pandora's Legacy looks at film history from a different angle – how rare and precious!" - Int. Film Fest Rotterdam
Intercepted
Sound and image stare each other in the face as Intercepted contrasts quiet compositions of everyday life of Ukrainians since the full-scale invasion with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.
“Terrific... An austere and harrowing chronicle of life, death and indifference" - The New York Times
A Fidai Film
In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
"A gesture of anger and struggle in action and a restitution of a distorted or erased memory, A Fidai Film lays claim to a form of cinematographic sabotage, a resistance-fighter film as the title unequivocally indicates" - FID Marseille
Night of the Coyotes
A small indigenous Mexican village is slowly turning into a ghost town as many of its inhabitants emigrate. To survive this, they start simulating an experience they all know: crossing the border to the US illegally. The residents of the village slip into the roles of border guards, human traffickers and drug smugglers to re-enact the crossing for paying tourists so they can put themselves into the position of a migrant for one night. A story of empowerment or a village stuck in the loop of their traumatic experiences?
"From those who are sent back from the US to children separated from their parents, we hear personal stories dominated by the pain of separation. It is not just the border that stands between them, but also a world of missed experiences and emotional voids that can never be filled" - Guardian
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