At a U.S. boarding school, teaching is just a small part of the job. The teachers live on campus with the students in a closed society. To retain some semblance of a private life, a teacher has to carefully navigate the unwritten rules. A deadpan lesson in social psychology.
Also in this combined programme
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Still Life (betamale)
Unscrupulous film about excessive lust and desire in online subcultures. Simultaneously wonderful and repellent.
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Fe26
Two reluctant gangsters manage to survive in their poverty-stricken Cleveland neighbourhood by cleverly circumventing the rules.
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Sun Song
Experience pure poetry on a silent bus journey from night into day in Durham, North Carolina.
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The Inner and Outer Vanishing Point
We are under threat, but by what exactly? Generalised paranoia and the obsession with security in the U.S. countryside.
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Andoe
An American artist’s female alter ego gains supernatural powers. His ambition rises to unparalleled heights.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 13"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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