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Written/Unwritten
Silent glances speak volumes in this fast-paced drama in which a dull administrative procedure calls for an unwilling family reunion at a maternity waPublished on: -
After the Storm
The umpteenth typhoon of the season has trapped a failed author (who recently lost his father) with his mother, ex and son. Leave it to…Published on: -
La mort de Louis XIV
On 1 September 1715, King Louis XVI of France dies of gangrene in his palace at Versailles. In his darkened bedroom, confidants and doctors come…Published on: -
Mutter und Sohn
Commissioned at the Amsterdam Film Festival, this absurdist parable about the doting mother of a brutal torturer was shot without permission of the CzPublished on: -
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 deprPublished on: -
Orpheline
If you look back through someone’s life you’ll encounter someone who is perhaps intrinsically the same in every phase of life, but is in sPublished on: -
Abu Ammar Is Coming
A picture shot by a Magnum photographer proves to be a teasing enigma. Arabic newspapers claim it as evidence of Bangladeshi fighters in the PLO…Published on: -
Afronauts
A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to…Published on: -
The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev
If anyone still doubts that musical talent is hereditary, this documentary provides convincing proof. Not that a tyrannical patriarch is necessarily aPublished on: -
The Last Family
An unconventional portrait of an unconventional artist. The dystopian paintings of Polish cult hero Zdzisław Beksiński are constantly in the backgrounPublished on: