Bring Down The Walls
Artist Phil Collins uses house music to combat the racially motivated, overcrowded American prison system.
88'
USA
IFFR 2020
By the time Juana Bignozzi died in 2015 she had spent the final decade of her life in her home country, after 30 years of exile in Barcelona. The Argentinian poet left her work, universally acclaimed in Spanish-language circles, to the young journalist and poet Mercedes Halfon who – quite understandably – felt compelled to do this inheritance justice. She got support from El Pampero Cine, a team of female filmmakers revolving around Laura Citarella (La mujer de los perros, Tiger Competition 2015).
What starts as a charming research film in which you can recognise, for example, the influence of El Pampero Cine's La Flor (How do you film poetry? How do you reconstruct a life?) develops into much more than that in an elegant edit. Because once the character of Juana Bignozzi enters the film, her strong personality and poetry come to life in whatever language – thereby proving cinema's strength.
Laura Citarella, Mercedes Halfon
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Familiar faces from the world of film: new work from established filmmakers, auteurs and festival veterans.
Read more about this programmeArtist Phil Collins uses house music to combat the racially motivated, overcrowded American prison system.
88'
USA
IFFR 2020
Gianikian created a montage of images from work trips to the USA and Jerusalem to accompany his deceased partner Ricci Lucchi’s wonderfully illustrated diaries.
103'
Italy
IFFR 2020
Four women struggle with the choreography Mother by Isadora Duncan, created after the death of her two young children.
84'
France
IFFR 2020