A History of Shadows
Overview of films
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Big Talk: Armando Iannucci
As a satirist, British producer-writer-director Armando Iannucci is peerless. His targets are invariably big, such as the British government in The Thick of It; the White House administration in the feature In the Loop and the internationally-renowned series Veep. For each production, Iannucci has delivered a heady brew of satire, sarcasm and absurdity and a […]
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Masterclass: Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel was educated at Avellaneda Experimental (AVEX) and the National School of Cinematographic Experimentation and Direction (ENERC) in Buenos Aires. She introduced her uncompromising vision to the world with her debut feature The Swamp which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001. Her next feature film The Holy Girl was selected for […]
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Journey to Russia
In the late 1980s, found-footage pioneers Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi travelled to Russia looking for living memories of the avant-garde of the 1920s
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Fuck Off! – Images from Finland
Sparkling documentary classic from 1971 in which Donner and his mates made Finnish but also Swedish streets unsafe with their investigation into how t
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Der Hauptmann
It’s a good thing the Germans themselves tell this kind of uneasy story. When the deserting Wehrmacht soldier Willy Herold finds an officer&rsqu
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Los versos del olvido
Cemetery caretaker discovers the body of a young female protester at the morgue. He does everything he can to give her a proper funeral. The Iranian f
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The Mummy
Based on the true story of a 19th-century Upper-Egyptian clan that robs a cache of mummies and sells the artefacts on the black market. The authoritie
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Fuck Off 2 – Images from Finland
To mark the hundredth anniversary of Finnish independence, Donner again picked up the subject of his legendary Fuck Off!. How is Finland getting on? A
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Tremor – Es ist immer Krieg
This polyphonic film by the Belgian film artist about the history of Europe and art is an unforgettable, sensual journey between memory and nightmare.
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Geschichtsunterricht
Straub & Huillet, after Bertolt Brecht. Opinions on this masterpiece vary from ‘political cinema at its most advanced and provocative’
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Dans le noir du temps
Jean-Luc Godard’s cinematographic reflection on time as a Pandora’s Box in which all the horrors of the world are hidden. This is his contributi
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Lamaland (Teil I)
In the jungle of Paraguay live the Schweikhart brothers, descendants of the Aryan colony Nueva Germania, once founded in Paraguay by the sister of Nie