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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • The Right Side of That Road

    A thoughtful reflection on the working class district of the Old City of Damascus and the relations between the people and the built environment.
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  • The Golden Bird

    Mysterious tale about a search for a way to escape the cycle of births. Imaginative experimental film by one of the most exciting Indian authors.
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  • Before Vanishing

    The Barada is the main river in Damascus. Once it was the city’s lifeblood which provided riches, but nothing now remains of that illustrious past.
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  • Century of Birthing

    A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion…
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  • Duck Hunting

    A nostalgic day out hunting for a father and two sons. The violence is not only aimed at the ducks. Impressive student production.
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  • Stone Bird

    The eccentric Abu Hajar has chosen a life in seclusion to escape an unsolvable personal conflict imposed on him by a rigid society.
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  • Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema

    This portrait of the French filmmaker Jean Epstein focuses especially on the period when he was filming in Brittany. Epstein allowed himself to be ins
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  • Damsels in Distress

    Four female students want to cause a revolution at their University and end up in drily comic situations when they start getting involved with men,…
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  • Heart’s Boomerang

    Snowy Saint Petersburg. A young man with an incurable heart disease. Underground trains where he spends most of his time working as a subway machinist
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  • Kotoko

    Tsukamoto has to answer for almost unbearable films such as Tetsuo II: Body Hammer and Tokyo Fist. Not exactly free of violence, to put it…
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