Cinema Regained

Pregnancy becomes ritual in Antoinetta Angelidi’s film of her son’s birth, finished 28 years later.

An invasive film crew attempts to make a gritty documentary on some Cali slums.

A sensitive and insightful documentary on the art of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

The ordinary lives of two gay men is revealed as a sphere of wonder.

A 70s enigma, a free-form-film poem, Luisa Cividin moves through spaces as Roberto Taroni smokes.

The magnum opus and only sound film from Kai Oka is an elliptical journey.

Inspired by Brakhage, the light dances as Kai Oka’s camera freely roams the countryside.

Doing the American thing: riding around in a car as a pure cinematic act.

Quasi-autobiography of IFFR cult filmmaker Clemens Klopfenstein, reflects on his past in and with cinema.

Victor Erice offers a melancholic tribute to the power and meaning of cinema.

A split screen. Simultaneous reflection and action. A woman dances, the same woman reflects on dancing.

Under the gleaming sun, a rebel couple is on a mission to kill a dictator.

James Scott’s film about Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies finds new meaning after its completion.

Glove puppet cinema history at its enchanting finest.

Instead of getting rid of his wife, a professional killer teaches this husband a lesson.

Some people embark on a dangerous journey to leave a country full of sunshine.

Cyber-criminal mothers strike back against toxic America in a queer, funky, ecological and visionary film.

A sensual piece of contemplative cinema set on a barren island in newly Soviet Estonia.

Edward Weki is visited by Nurse Alma (Bergman’s Persona) and a female version of Death (from The Seventh Seal).

Will the community-conscious humanist or the selfish careerist succeed as head of the university medical department?

A playful, consciously simple animation about a sensitive subject: hair.

In a future Assam, rains have destroyed parts of the state, can it be reconstructed?

In a version of the world to come, Judith must protect her sixth child.

Old film reels from 1970s Rome become a wistful reimagining.

Convinced he'll lead her to the altar, she ignores the man he has become.

Bodies, identity and motherhood are exposed in Bridgett M. Davis’ sole fiction feature.

Elek’s autobiographical screenplay about her days as a farm servant, postscript to last year’s retrospective.

Suggestions of paradise as a young man runs and leaps through the streets.

Rea Wallden invites her mother, feminist avant-garde beacon Antoinetta Angelidi for an intimate confession.

Enter the world of Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina, a fascinating figure in Latin American cinema.

An essay on time passing through spaces and the beauty found in its contemplation.

Weimar-era pioneer Georg Wilhelm Pabst seen from a truly different angle.

Aparna Sen’s powerful commentary on the societal expectations and individuality of women in India.

Prodigious Indian filmmaker Aparna Sen takes a reminiscent walk through her personal history of cinema.

Georg Tiller visits Fårö in search of the spiritual residue of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.

The story of the Franco regime’s first film school in Spain.

Colombia’s first horror film is a class politics-dense pulp masterpiece.

A pendant to his earlier Georgica, Sulev Keedus crafts a work of spiritual depth.

A frantic view into Roberto Taroni and Luisa Cividin's private life in New York.

Inside the American Dream, a US shopping mall, in all its colours, sounds and light.

Vertical shots of water and fire are woven together, till all is water.

Romanian-born gay Israeli filmmaker Amos Guttman is remembered through excerpts from his last interview.

One of only a few attempts at directing made by outstanding German screenwriter Max Zhilmann.

There's little in cinema that explores Western art in a similar critical style to Topos.

This lyrical retelling of the Arthurian classic is a lost treasure of New German Cinema.

In need of work, actors Max and Polo go on a quest to find Clemens Klopfenstein.