Maestros: Kings & Aces
Overview of films
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Heremias (Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess)
Majestic masterpiece by the Filipino Lav Diaz who takes his time to tell a story with great emotion. In meditative black & white images, the fateful l
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Le prestige de la mort
Old hand Luc Moullet (Les naufrages de la D17) plays himself and yet also someone else in his own film. He switches identity with a dead man, but that
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Ararat – Fourteen Views
A series of controlled improvisations. They focus on the holy Armenian mountain Ararat that is out of reach in Turkey. The filmmaker looks at his moun
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Syndromes and a Century
There are filmmakers who return to their childhood for beautiful atmospheric films, but the imaginative Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns
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Rescue Dawn
A second homage by Herzog to the indestructible urge to survive of the pilot Dieter Dengler who was shot down during the Vietnam war and had to conque
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In the Shadow of the Dog
A young man appears in the village and alleges he is the reincarnation of the husband of Venkatalakshmi who died 22 years ago. After initial hesitance
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I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
Minimalist and sensually charged investigation of the sultry relationship between a homeless Chinese, an illegal worker from Bangladesh and a waitress
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Dong
Documentary project that put Jia Zhang-ke on the trail of his film Still Life, which won a Golden Lion. Portrait of the leading Chinese painter Liu Xi
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Hana
Captivating samurai film in which a beautiful, humorous and entertaining story is told for a change and there is hardly any fighting. In an 18th-centu
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Offside
Docu-drama about Iranian women who are mad about football but the law always puts them offside. What is real and what is not? Ninety minutes sitting o
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Coeurs
Film version of the play Private Fears in Public Spaces, this time situated in a snow-covered Paris. Old and young from the affluent middle classes wo
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Still Life
Surprising winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In one of the towns that will disappear under water through the rising waters of the