Netherlands, Venice Days 2014, Rotterdam 2015
First feature film by Peter Hoogendoorn
Synopsis:
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF TEN AND TWELVE A PIECE OF NEWS STOPS A FAMILY IN ITS TRACKS, WHILE AROUND THEM LIFE GOES ON AS BEFORE.
A Corner of Heaven
China, Busan 2014- A window on Asian Cinema, Rotterdam 2015
Miaoyan Zhang
Synopsis
A boy is in search of his mother in the estuary of the dirty Yellow River. He finds pollution, oppression, drugs and violence and yet he does not loose his will to live. Continuer la lecture
Song of my Mother
Turkey, Best Film & Best Actor at Sarajevo 2014
First feature film by Erol Mintas
Synopsis
Young teacher Ali lives with his aging mother Nigar in Istanbul’s Tarlabaşı district; home to many Kurdish immigrants since the 90’s. When the ongoing gentrification of the old city forces them to move for a second time, they end up in the soulless concrete desert of the city’s furthest outskirts.
Blood Cells
UK, Venice 2014 Biennale College Programme
Joseph Bull and Luke Seomore
Synopsis
Adam has lived a rootless existence since his family’s farm was destroyed by the Foot & Mouth epidemic of 2001. His life imploded and he abandoned his family after a single devastating incident. He has spent the years since on the nomadic fringes of British society, cycling through transitory jobs and transitory relationships, adrift from his family and past.
The Creation of Meaning
Italy, Locarno Cineastes of the Present 2014- Best New Director, Rotterdam 2015
Simone Rapisarda Casanova
Synopsis
The Creation of Meaning is set in the Tuscan Alps, where German occupying forces massacred hundreds of civilians during WWII, and follows the daily life of Pacifico, a shepherd born in the wake of the war among those same breathtaking landscapes. The film blurs fiction, documentary and anthropology to explore the transient nature of meaning in capturing what Borges calls an Aleph, an allegorical singularity in space and time where past, present and future overlap and intertwine.
Labyrinthus
Belgium, Toronto Kids section 2014
Douglas Boswell
Synopsis
Frikke, a 14-year-old boy, comes across a computer game and discovers that it’s being played with real children, uploaded in the game’s labyrinth. In a race against time, Frikke tries to find the evil creator of this horrible game.
Fort Buchanan
France, Locarno 2014- Signs of Life, Rotterdam 2015
A first feature film by Benjamin Crotty
Synopsis
From the woods of Eastern France to the Djiboutian desert, Fort Buchanan follows a group of army husbands and wives over one year. With dialogues inspired from American TV, protagonists change with the seasons as the group evolves romantically, sexually, and (a little bit) intellectually. Continuer la lecture
Cure- The Life of Another
Switzerland, Locarno 2014- in competition
Andrea Staka
Synopsis
1993: after the Siege of Dubrovnik. 14-year-old Linda has moved back to Croatia from Switzerland with her father. Her new best friend Eta takes her up to the forbidden forest above the city.
Corn Island
Georgia, Karlovy Vary competition 2014- Crystal Globe for Best Film
George Ovashvili
Synopsis
The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992-93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating tiny island: small clusters of no man’s land. The islands are havens for wildlife but occasionally also for man. Continuer la lecture
Paris of the North
Iceland, Karlovy Vary competition 2014
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Synopsis
Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Continuer la lecture