Hubert Bals Fund
Overzicht van films
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Urbania
Flávio Frederico | 70' | Brazil | World premiere
In a mixture of fiction, documentary and archive footage, the voyage of discovery of a blind old man into his past is interwoven with a… -
Uttara
Buddhadeb Dasgupta | 99' | India | -
The friends Balaram and Nimai work at the level crossing in a village in the countryside of Bengal. Their greatest passion is wrestling with each… -
Uzak
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 110' | Turkey | -
Visuals and sound from snow-covered Istanbul are breathtaking in one of the top films of the year; sad and funny, human and intimate, personal and… -
Vanishing Point
Jakrawal Nilthamrong | 100' | Thailand | -
A serious film about serious, complex issues (including a dramatic car crash), presented in a light, playful way. The film follows two very different men,… -
Verano de Goliat
Nicolás Pereda | 76' | Mexico | None
Pereda is rapidly acquiring admirers for his equally rapidly expanding, cohesive oeuvre. The fifth film is a beautiful mix of fiction and documentary, which reveals… -
La vida es silbar
Fernando Pérez | 90' | Cuba | -
This ‘sadcom’ (a combination of absurdity and reality) is a framework tale about three women in Havana at the end of the 20th century. Looking… -
La vida útil
Federico Veiroj | 67' | Uruguay | None
Ode to love and a melancholy lament about fading film culture go hand in hand in this old-fashioned precise black-and-white jewel. About a man whose… -
When Mother Comes Home for Christmas
Nilita Vachani | 109' | Greece | International premiere
Cinema verité portrait of a special group of immigrant women. -
Women’s Prison
Manijeh Hekmat | 106' | Iran | -
The harsh life in a women’s prison as a metaphor for Iranian society in the last two decades. A young guard has lots of ideals… -
Xime
Sana Na N’Hada | 95' | Guinea-Bissau | -
In the village Xime optimism reigns after an abundant rice harvest. Film sketches the difficult transition from being a Portuguese colony to a democra -
Yallayaana
Moussa Sene Absa | 45' | Senegal | European premiere
Loving, slightly ironic view of Daouda, the local bus-driver, and his bus route, filled with spills on this day.