Cinema of the World: Time & Tide
Overview of films
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Ten Canoes
Rolf de Heer | 92' | Australia | None
Ambitious film by ‘Dutch’ Australian Rolf de Heer portrays the ups and downs of various aboriginal tribes from the recent and less recent past. In… -
Transe
Teresa Villaverde | 126' | France | None
One of the masterpieces of the past year is about the nightmare of the young Russian Sonia, who seeks her fortune in the affluent West… -
Tussen hemel en aarde
Frank van den Engel, Masja Novikova | 70' | Netherlands | World premiere
Fascinating, layered documentary about the friendship between two circus artistes in Uzbekistan that is put under pressure because they make opposite -
Waarom heeft niemand mij verteld dat het zo erg zou worden in Afghanistan
Cyrus Frisch | 70' | Netherlands | World premiere
It is possible: to make an experimental feature with the camera in your mobile phone. The filmmaker took on the guise of a traumatised Dutch… -
The Way I Spent the End of the World
Catalin Mitulescu | 106' | Romania | None
Seventeen-year-old Eva and her seven-year-old brother Lalalilu try to gain their own freedom at the end of Ceausescu’s rule, before the revoluti -
Western Trunk Line
Li Jixian | 101' | China | World premiere
Authentic and subtly-written coming-of-age story set against the end of the dark 1970s. A dominant mother, a taciturn father, an elder brother who won -
What Sun Has Seen
Michal Rosa | 109' | Poland | European premiere
The lives of three people in Polish Silesia, each of whom needs a large sum of money, become intertwined. Rosa based this social realistic story… -
WWW – What a Wonderful World
Faouzi Bensaïdi | 99' | France | None
Powerful, visually orchestrated quasi-comedy in which a hit man who gets his commissions by Internet loses his heart to an indomitable female traffic -
You Am I
Kristijonas Vildziunas | 90' | Germany | None
Dreamy, fresh and puzzling portrait of a young generation of Lithuanians and the bearable lightness of being. A young architect withdraws into his sel -
Zero Zone
Arindam Mitra | 100' | India | World premiere
Multifaceted psychological thriller with lots of nuance portrays a famous Indian cricket player (a fabulous role by Kay Kay Menon) who is arrested on