Signals: EU-29
Overview of films
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Les Apaches
Thierry de Peretti | 82' | France | None
Feature debut in which French actor De Peretti shows the two faces of holiday paradise Corsica. Set against the villas and imported wealth of the… -
L’armée du salut
Abdellah Taïa | 84' | France | None
A young Moroccan writer filmed his own book, telling his life’s story. About a boy in Casablanca who finds out you can earn money through… -
Até ver a luz
Basil da Cunha | 95' | Portugal | None
Authentic crime story set in the backstreets of Lisbon strives for a brash realism, using local actors and improvised dialogue. A small-time criminal -
L’escale
Kaveh Bakhtiari | 100' | France | None
Intense, harrowing portrait of a group of illegal immigrants in Athens. Including the nephew of the filmmaker, who therefore has unprecedented access -
EU 013, l’ultima frontiera
Alessio Genovese | 62' | Italy | International premiere
For the first time, the Italian authorities allowed a film crew into the Centres for Identification and Expulsion: selection centres for refugees. Gen -
Evaporating Borders
Iva Radivojević | 73' | Cyprus | World premiere
Originally from Yugoslavia, Iva Radivojevic investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on the sense of national identity in Cyprus, one of th -
The Filmballad of Mamadada
Cassandra Guan, Lily Benson | 80' | USA | None
Bio-drama capturing the spirit of the New York Dada artist Barones Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) in grand experimental fragments. She once -
Gare du Nord
Claire Simon | 119' | France | None
The enormous railway station in Paris is full of people who will not leave again. They arrive from all over the world, but can’t go… -
Géographie humaine
Claire Simon | 101' | France | None
This documentary forms a pair with the fiction film Gare du Nord by the same director and, remarkably, is the lighter of the two. An… -
Gli immacolati
Ronny Trocker | 13' | France | None
Reality as a dark fairy tale; reconstruction of a place of guilt. A Roma camp is razed to the ground following an excuse given by… -
I’m the Same, I’m an Other
Caroline Strubbe | 103' | Belgium | International premiere
Atmospheric and sensitive story of a man and a girl fleeing through Europe. The reason for this gradually becomes clear, as they slowly learn to… -
Late at Night – Voices of Ordinary Madness
Xiaolu Guo | 70' | Switzerland | International premiere
Strong, original film essay on the changing East End of London. A model for Europe and the rest of the world. Author and filmmaker Xiaolu…