Overview of articles
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Hill of Pleasures
After decades of lawlessness, order seems to have returned to the Hill of Pleasures, a favela close to Rio’s centre, a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP)…Published on: -
Of Good Report
Parker Sithole served as a UN soldier in the Congo, is very proud of his teaching diploma and with his wise, peaceful demeanour somewhat resembles…Published on: -
The Liar’s Dice
After her remarkable short film Are You Listening? (premiered in Rotterdam in 2010), Geetu Mohan Das, an established actress since childhood, makes her feature debut…Published on: -
Darkness by Day
Martín Desalvo (Kept and Dreamless, Tiger Awards Competition 2005) is finally back in Rotterdam with his latest – breathtaking and unsettling – work.Virginia and her…Published on: -
Longing for the Rain
In today’s China, the middle classes provide a supreme example of materialism, emptiness and yearning. The nouveau riche seem seem united only in their unstoppable…Published on: -
Beyond Clueless
This first attempt at charting the undervalued genre of the teen film presents itself as a somewhat overzealous school assignment, with an utterly serious monologue…Published on: -
Xenos
Intimate amalgam of phone calls, photographs and video footage provides a glimpse of the daily harsh reality of a group of Palestinian refugees in Athens.…Published on: -
AAA (Mein Herz)
Recorded entirely in one take, four different compositions are performed as one by a young woman. The intention is to keep the original style, tempo…Published on: -
A Hustlers Diary
In his second feature, Ivica Zubak explores the clash of social classes, when petty thief Metin accidentally rolls into the circuit of literary agents and…Published on: -
Por la libertad
We’ve known there was a link between the documentary maker Laurence Garret and Carlos Reygadas since her creative evocation of Luis Buñuel (En ningún lugar,…Published on: