Deep Focus
Overview of films
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The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin
Yves Montmayeur | 65' | France | None
Guy Maddin creates artificial worlds reminiscent of films from a distant past. Full of dream logic, spirits and perversions – but always humour. In th -
L’Accademia delle Muse
José Luis Guerín | 92' | Spain | None
Linguist Pinto from Naples gives a course in ‘being a muse’ at the University of Barcelona. At home, Pinto’s wife is not entirely convinced by… -
Acteón
Jorge Grau | 75' | Spain | None
A modern(ist) take on the story of Actaeon who saw the goddess Diana nude, for which she turned him into a stag that would soon… -
AKA Serial Killer
Adachi Masao | 86' | Japan | None
An unusual portrait of a criminal, AKA Serial Killer barely features any faces. Shot as an antithesis to the sensationalised reporting that surrounds -
Amore tossico
Claudio Caligari | 90' | Italy | None
Caligari’s staggering narrative debut is a landmark in Italian cinema of the 1980s. Toxic Love vividly depicts the life of junkies on the Roman seasid -
And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead
Billy Woodberry | 89' | Portugal | None
With detailed, personal anecdotes, rare archive material and beautiful poems in this jazzy documentary, L.A. Rebellion director Billy Woodberry create -
Aoom
Gonzalo Suarez | 72' | Spain | None
An aging actor transfers his soul into a doll to escape the boredom and the triteness of leisure. His assistant soon gets irritated by this… -
Artist of Fasting
Adachi Masao | 105' | Japan | International premiere
Adachi Masao’s long-awaited return from hiatus is an absurdist comedy with political bite. The multilayered hypocrisies of contemporary Japan are slow -
Autour des salines
Jacinto Esteva Grewe | 22' | Spain | None
Life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of salt mining. A composed, spectacular work of anger… -
Ballad of Exiles Yilmaz Güney
Ilker Savaskurt | 70' | Turkey | World premiere
Instead of sketching an overview of the iconic yet rather forgotten œuvre of the Turkish director Yilmaz Güney, this documentary focuses on his experi -
Between the Bullet and the Hole
Aura Satz | 11' | United Kingdom | None
During World War II, it was mainly women who, as human computers, made calculations for ballistic tests and early computers. -
BiBiCi Story
Carlos Durán | 15' | Spain | None
Scenes from the modern world – and why it must fall apart, despite its beauties. A true gem: a pop-art agit film. Screens before Después…