Turkey, Sundance World Cinema competition 2015
Tolga Karacelik
Synopsis
After months without pay, the already disgruntled crew on a Turkish cargo ship arrives in an Egyptian port and learns that the port authority is foreclosing on them. Continuer la lecture
Turkey, Berlin Forum 2015
A first feature film by Emine Emel Balci
Synopsis
Serap is a quiet but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister, the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father who is a long distance truck driver. Since the father is quite indifferent to Serap’s wishes, however, she decides to take matters in her own hands.
Colombia, Berlin Forum 2015
A first feature film by Jorge Forero
Synopsis
A man in chains, a young man who dreams of being part of something and a militant from an armed group who must wield a cruelty in which he may not believes in. All of them in the center of a violence that they don’t understand. The film, through three successive stories, gives unique faces, not interchangeable, to the tragic reality of the war.
Cyprus, Rotterdam Tiger award competition 2015
A first feature film by Kyros Papavassiliou
Synopsis
Totally disconnected from his past and memory, the Passenger tries to define himself, confronted by his pre-determined fate, a fate that he has to re-live upon every anniversary of his death.
India, Venice Days 2014- Fedeora Award for Best Debut Film, Rotterdam 2015
A first feature film by Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Synopsis
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, LABOUR OF LOVE is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession. Continuer la lecture
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.
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
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.
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.
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.