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Venusville
The two filmmakers had a bet: how easily can you tell the difference between a moving image of a still object, and a freeze frame…Published on: -
Majority
A wonderful portrait of a rural family and modern city existence, told through the life (and its problems) of a teenage boy, his relatives and…Published on: -
Another Passion
Narrative film in which Yossry portrays her own struggle to study cinema, and the confrontations she had with her family.Published on: -
Winter Vacation
This hilarious minimalist film from poet/writer/filmmaker Li Hongqi won the Golden Leopard. Deadly dry humour, inimitable dialogues and long, sad silePublished on: -
Autumn
Rafiq’s brother has been missing for more than four years as a result of the violence in the Indian state of Kashmir. As a result,…Published on: -
El mar
Raw, surrealist, homoerotic and sometimes violent melodrama – a highlight of Villaronga’s oeuvre. Mallorca 1936: a mass execution by fascists is witnePublished on: -
Tras el cristal
Villaronga’s legendary film debut from 1987 is controversial and has lost nothing of its power. To those unafraid, it provides an insight into human dPublished on: -
Mirages
Mirages focuses on a mock Iraqi village in the Mojave desert used by the US Army for training purposes. It was built and is operated…Published on: -
The Tent
Enthrallingly edited and scored, monochromatic amplification of 1970s idealism, expressed in drawings, texts and photos by the ‘British Systems Group’Published on: -
Documentary Footage
Morgan Fisher’s rarely seen early masterwork, in which an artist’s model gives an endlessly nuanced performance of self-investigation.Published on: