Signals: First Things First

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  However…

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  Kore-eda Hirokazu | 47' | Japan | None

  Kore-Eda (Nobody Knows, Still Walking) started as a documentary maker with this beautiful portrait about the life and work of the head of Japanese soc

• Images of Liberation

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  Lars von Trier | 52' | Denmark | None

  Graduation film by Lars Trier. Even then it was unusual, controversial and not always equally understandable in its intentions. About the last days of
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  Incoherence

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  Bong Joon Ho | 30' | South Korea | None

  As a student at the KAFA, Bong Joon-Ho (The Host, Memories of Murder) made this beautiful trilogy about hypocrisy and stupidity of authorities, still
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  Koza

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  Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 20' | Turkey | None

  With his lyrical short film début, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Uzak, Three Monkees) won the Golden Palm at Cannes. An elderly couple live separately. They have

• Machorka-Muff

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  Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 18' | Germany | None

  Début by Straub already shows his cinematographic style and political preoccupations in a short film about the former Nazi colonel Machorka Muff who w
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  Nocturne

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  Lars von Trier | 8' | Denmark | None

  Von Trier’s first film academy exercise is a stylistic precursor of his The Element of Crime. It follows the hallucinating experiences of a woman with
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  Pacific Motion

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  Michael Glawogger | 7' | Austria | None

  Glawogger, a mate of Seidl since the 1980s and maker of for instance Workingman’s Death, started his career with beautiful studies like this.
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  The Phantom of Regular Size

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  Tsukamoto Shinya | 18' | Japan | None

  The prototype, as it were, of Tetsuo: The Iron Man, the classic cyberpunk film that was to make Tsukamoto famous.

• Rey muerto

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  Lucrecia Martel | 13' | Argentina | None

  First short fiction film that Martel was able to realise when she won a screen play competition is often regarded as the starting point of…
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  Saute ma ville

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  Chantal Akerman | 11' | Belgium | None

  Youthful perfection by Chantal Akerman. The ideal lesson for every young film maker.
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  Song About a Flower

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  Otar Iosseliani | 18' | Russia | None

  ‘Sapovnela’ means ‘the flower that no one can find’. A combination of music and colour. First film by Otar Iosseliani.
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  Les statues meurent aussi

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  Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | 30' | France | None

  First documentary by Marker and a cooperation with Resnais. About the role of the West in the demise of African art.