The sky is blue, it is August. Feel the suffocating heat of the sun penetrating your skin. Then screams, colours, chants, garlands of money – and explosions. All around you, an abundance of flesh is spinning. Thousands of men offer the naked bodies of baby boys to the angelic icon of San Sebastian.
Also in this combined programme
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The Happiest Barrack
Tracing her grandmother’s life of destitution in Soviet Hungary, Noémi Varga scans a house, the inhabitants of which appear numb and d
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Foyer
A piece of blank paper flapping before a camera’s lens attracts a crowd of passers-by in Tunis. From the white void and the comments it evoke
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Disseminate and Hold
Disseminate and Hold tracks the Minhocão, or ‘giant earthworm’: an elevated highway in São Paulo. It subtly connects Braz
Film details
- Countries of production
- France, Italy, Netherlands
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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