Signals: Grand Tour
Overview of films
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Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen
Hope for cinema and the rejected of Europe! This comic/absurd fairytale offers a way out of despair in our harsh post-capitalist age. Georgian cleaner
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Spies & Glistrup
Spies and Glistrup really existed – their wild adventures and extravagant ideas are thus based on fact. This bio-pic is satisfyingly unclassifiable. A
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Redemption
Highlight of the film year: collage film featuring intimate thoughts from well-known Europeans in bombastic/ironic ‘letters’ from Portugal, Milan, Par
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Der Wille zur Macht
Nietzsche’s crazy sister married an anti-Semite and in 1887 emigrated to Paraguay with him and 14 families of pure Aryan blood to found Nueva Germania
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Chigger Ale
A small Hitler clone. A goat with a swastika. A neighbourhood bar somewhere in Addis Ababa.
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When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
Third feature by Romanian master starts with the year’s best film lesson: filmmaker seduces his supporting actress – in one take during a short car jo
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Oktober November
Attractive screenplay in the European film tradition of the psychology of family life. Two sisters have taken different paths: one is a successful act
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Finsterworld
There is no country in Europe that is so difficult to reduce to digestible clichés as contemporary Germany: Finsterworld, a mosaic of bizarre s
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El futuro
Back to the Future, Spain 1982: at a euphoric party, young people celebrate the election victory of the Socialist Party. López Carrasco stages
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Eastern Boys
Scriptwriter/editor for Laurent Cantet (L’emploi du temps, Entre les murs) directs overwhelming second film. Wealthy man in his 50s approaches a young
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Ida
Poland, early 1960s. Devout novice Ida visits her sole family member, having been warned by the Mother Superior. The chain-smoking, cynical Wanda reve
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Feel My Love
Age brings infirmity. Dementia is on the rise in Europe’s greying population. Observational Flemish documentary touchingly shows how the pre-war gener