The Tyger Burns
Overview of films
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Passing Fancies
Humans are led by their desires and obsessions from birth to death. No wonder many filmmakers never stop creating. -
À cause des filles..?
Pascal Thomas | 100' | France | None
A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don’t make cultivated comedies like this anymore. -
Talk: The Tyger Burns
A discussion with female filmmakers who have been active for fifty years or more. On their careers and their position, then and now. -
About Endlessness
Roy Andersson | 76' | Germany | None
In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes. -
Adults in the Room
Costa-Gavras | 124' | France | None
Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad. -
Black Mercedes
Janusz Majewski | 123' | Poland | None
Warsaw, 1942: when police investigator Rafał Król starts to dig deeper into the murder of Aneta Holzer, cans of worms galore get opened. -
Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy
Karel Vachek | 335' | Czech Republic | International premiere
A comparison of two popular uprisings, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, by film essay giant Karel Vachek. -
Corman’s Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Ivan Cardoso | 18' | Brazil | World premiere
Unmistakably Cardoso, this handmade found-footage delirium as a tribute to US independent cinema’s original rebel. -
El crack cero
José Luis Garci | 122' | Spain | International premiere
Madrid, transición: Cop-turned-gumshoe Germán Areta gets a visit from the kind of dames that spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e. A prime piece of old-s -
El diablo entre las piernas
Arturo Ripstein | 145' | Mexico | None
An elderly Mexican couple, each other’s best enemies, discover new, perverse highlights in smooth, beautifully shot psychological game. -
La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (animated version)
René Viénet | 90' | France | World premiere
A vibrant reworking of René Viénet’s very own 1973 situationist comedy monument in a most surprising form: a digitally rotoscoped animat -
La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (restored version)
René Viénet | 90' | France | None
In the early 1970s, René Viénet bought a HK martial arts film and transformed it into a monumental Situationist comedy. Alongside a new,