Grandeur Locale
Overview of films
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Accattone
Pier Paolo Zerilli | 115' | Italy |
Pasolini’s debut Accattone, ‘sponging’, is set in Rome soon after World War Two. Italy is still in a state of chaos, both economical and psychological,… -
America, America
Elia Kazan | 168' | USA |
Elia Kazan shot part of his epic film on location in Greece, which is most unusual for a film-maker who became great in Hollywood. (He… -
At zije republika
Karel Kakhyna | 123' | Czechoslovakia |
Grand, epic and visually-impressive film with fantastic scope photography which deserves to be much better known than it is. Long Live the Republic is a… -
Bell Diamond
Jon Jost | 97' | USA |
Cathy Dolan wants to leave her husband Jeff. She asks advice the of her girlfriend Haley, packs her bags and tells Jeff she’s leaving him… -
Das Blaue Licht
Leni Riefenstahl | 72' | Germany |
Debut film by Leni Riefenstahl, famous and infamous for her lyrical documentaries during the Nazi era. Das blaue Licht is a so-called ‘Mountain Film’, a… -
Branding
31' | Netherlands |
The battle between sea and land, which is the subject of Breakers, is reflected in the relationship between a seaman and a woman on land.… -
The Chanter
Jon Love | 30' | United Kingdom | International premiere
Chanter was shot entirely on location in a suburb of Glasgow, the cast comprising local inhabitants. The director knows the area like the back of… -
En het leven gaat door
Abbas Kiarostami | 91' | Iran |
In 1990 two earthquakes destroyed large areas of Northern Iran. Forty thousand people died and fifty thousand were wounded. It was in this same region… -
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Füürland 2
Remo Legnazzi, Clemens Klopfenstein | 103' | Switzerland |
Ten years ago the duet of directors Klopfenstein / Legnazzi made E Nachtlang Füürland, a film about the ‘autonomous’ (anarcho-punk) movement of the early eighties,… -
Ingaló
Asdis Thoroddsen | 102' | Iceland |
Ingaló is seventeen and lives with her parents and her younger brother Sveinn on the remote fjord coast of Iceland. After being involved in a… -
Ir ten krantai smeleti
Algimantas Puipa | 88' | Lithuania |
Like his widely praised Bilete lidz Tadzmahalai / Ticket to the Taj Mahal, screened last year in Rotterdam, Algimantas Puipa’s latest film is also largely…