on the waterfront new films
Overview of films
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Maas Observation
Karel Doing, Greg Pope | 11' | Netherlands | -
Experimental documentary about the port of Rotterdam. Silent, black & white and yet modern. See More Than Film, Mind the Gap. -
Mondialito
Nicolas Wadimoff | 90' | Switzerland | -
Light-hearted road-movie that leads to the Marseilles of World-Cup soccer, the colourful immigrant districts and the dark past of the protagonist. Ent -
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New York (Southstreet Seaport / Staten Island Ferry)
Jem Cohen | 15' | Netherlands | World premiere
Film-maker watches in despair as a traditional harbour is turned into an amusement park. An exploration in video by a celluloid virtuoso. -
Overfart
Ben Pointeker | 6' | Austria | -
Beautiful and icy computer animation of a voyage through an artificial polar sea. -
Un posto al mondo
Jacopo Quadri, Mario Martone | 84' | Italy | -
Impressive documentary about the world-wide refugee problem. With newsreel footage that has never been seen before from the archives of Italian televi -
Roji-E
Aoyama Shinji | 64' | Japan | -
Alongside the impressive Eureka, Aoyama this year also made this requiem for writer Nakagami Kenji, which is also a portrait of his birthplace, the co -
Samia
Philippe Faucon | 75' | France | -
Samia is a French teenager of Algerian origins whose modern ideas clash with the traditions ah home, where her father guards over her morals hardhande -
Seascape
Edward Luyken | 10' | Netherlands | -
Film diary about the creation of a picture that was taken from the sea and dedicated to the sea after its completion. -
Ship
Merilyn Fairskye | 4' | Australia | European premiere
Short and sobering picture of the ‘waterfront’. Not without irony. -
Sleepy Haven
Matthias Müller | 15' | Germany | -
About the sensuality of the naked torso of a sailor. Masterful found-footage adaptation. -