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Overview of films
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The Agronomist
Jonathan Demme | 90' | USA | -
Dramatic and entertaining documentary portrait about the last few decades in Haiti. Or how you can run a country from the Pentagon. -
All-American Dinner
Jenny Perlin | 3' | USA | World premiere
A menu can be such fun. It becomes apparent that typical American food just doesn’t exist. -
American Dreams #3
Moira Tierney | 5' | USA | -
Sad impression of a line of people who leave Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge. Does everyone still remember why? -
AROUND Special Registration
Haruko Tanaka | 18' | USA | International premiere
An Arab student in the USA surreptitiously films the way he has to register himself as a potential terrorist. The picture largely remains black, but… -
A Brief History of Surrealism
Michael Almereyda | 9' | USA | International premiere
The atmosphere in New York in times of war, seen through the eyes of the long-dead surrealist Andre Breton. About the war language of Bush… -
Bright Leaves
Ross McElwee | 107' | USA | -
Entertaining documentary filled with satire and self-deprecation by a film maker who has deserved the title of master for some time. An investigation -
Buffalo Common
Bill Brown | 23' | USA | -
A film that follows the tempo of the countryside – but that countryside far from idyllic. Among the farms, a careless scattering of dumps for… -
A Certain Kind of Death
Blue Hadaegh, Grover Babcock | 70' | USA | -
Obstinate documentary that reconstructs in painful detail the lives of several unknown people who died in obscurity. Their deaths reveal just how much -
Cortlandt Alley
19' | USA | International premiere
View out of the window of a film maker with a sharp eye for life in the gutter. -
east village lowdown (Brave New York)
Richard Sandler | 52' | USA | World premiere
The streets of New York are full of homeless war veterans, hallucinating soothsayers and sellers of wondrous condoms (with the stars and stripes). The -
Elephant
Gus Van Sant | 81' | USA | -
Authentic, supple film version of a shooting at a high school, loosely based on true events. Pure fiction, but with a documentary feel. Winner of… -
Energy Country
Deborah Stratman | 15' | USA | World premiere
Picturesque approach to (the oil) industry in Texas. Don’t forget to pose pregnant questions.