Overview of articles
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La tendresse
Hänsel’s first film based on her own script gives the concepts of personal and anecdotal a wise and loving significance. Beautiful roles by CantoPublished on: -
The Mother
Applying an additional mirror effect to a film that is already an elaborate play on this notion, a single close-up turns into a confronting hallucinatPublished on: -
Van ver staat het stil
An exchange of letters between the filmmaker and a paedophile evokes powerful emotions. But she wants to understand his motives.Published on: -
Derrière les volets
Poetic investigation of the history of the Raverdy coffee factory and the women who worked there; document for the next generation.Published on: -
L’amica geniale (De geniale vriendin)
Eight-part series based on the first of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, a history of post-war Italy told through the fates of two young womenPublished on: -
Fossil Locomotion
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.Published on: -
Lettre à Théo
The unfinished film recordings Theo Angelopoulos left behind when he died in 2012, finally result in a complete and surprisingly contemporary film.Published on: -
Tel Aviv on Fire
Comedy about a TV employee who tries to influence a romantic soap manages to capture the Arab-Israeli conflict in a surprisingly witty way.Published on: -
Là-bas
Akerman couldn’t leave her room in Tel Aviv due to terror attacks. From her apartment, she spies on neighbouring apartments. A truly voyeuristicPublished on: -
Terril
Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed.Published on: