A Bitter Taste Of Freedom
Marina Goldovskaya, Sweden / Russian Federation, 2011, Digibeta, 85’
Five years have passed since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, and still the person responsible has not been found. Which role has Putin in this story? Who was really Anna? This is a lesson of courage and determination.
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A Look at Global Militarization
Iara Lee, United States, 2009, HD, 4’
Despite the worldwide economic and financial crisis, the only industry that does not feel the recession seems to be the weapons industry. An overview, brief and chilling, of the madness linked to a market that never sleeps.
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A Morning Stroll
Grant Orchard, United Kingdom, 2011, 2D & 3D COMPUTER, 6’
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Abendland
Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2011, HDCam, 35mm, 90’
The "land of the night" in the title is Europe, which does not cross over into a Céline "Journey to the End" in the first person, but along the confines of real situations shot with objectivity.
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abUSAdos: la Redada de Postville
abUSed: The Postville Raid
Luis Argueta, United States / Guatemala, 2010, mini DV, 96’
The face of immigration is revealed through the gripping personal stories of the individuals, the families, and the town that survived the most brutal, most expensive, and the largest immigration raid in the history of the United States.
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Adelia, I Want to Love (A film about Mogwai)
Vincent Moon, Teresa Eggers, Italy, 2008, HD, 26’
Abruzzo, 2008, Adelia is eighty-nine years old and has never been to a concert. She wanders around backstage, discrete, but full of curiosity. She greets nephews, friends, musicians, then settles down to watch her first concert. On stage, Mogwai can start to play.
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AIDES graffiti
Yoann Lemoine, France, 2010, HD, 2’
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Akerbeltz, las Brujas y el Inquisidor
Akerbeltz, the Witches and the Inquisidor
César Urbina Vitoria, Spain, 2010, HD, 10’
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Alimation
Alexandre Dubosc, France, 2011, HD, 3’
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All my Friends are Dead
Alterazioni Video, Cameroon, 2009, Full HD, 30’
Zombies, tribal dances, and anthropological research are some of the themes in this film that was created with the intention of documenting ancient shamanic rituals. The result is a crazy yet effective genre situated somewhere between horror, musical and docudrama.
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All the Things I Need
Marinella Senatore, Italy, 2006, DVD, 16’
Incidents from the life of W. Bentley supply the narrative for this video and, in which song is one of one of several methods of story telling. Over four hundred inhabitants of Trento were invited to collaborate in this production.
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Alpi
Armin Linke, Germany, 2011, 16mm, 60’
The Alps viewed and told not only in their physical and geographical specificity but as a source and generator of a complex imagination of multiple economic, social and historical analyses.
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American Graffiti
George Lucas, United States, 1973, 35mm, 112’
While the radio broadcasts music tirelessly, a group of young people, including Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard, measure their dreams in the American province. The film was deemed a success by critics (nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture) and the public.
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Amigo
John Sayles, United States, 2010, 35mm, 128’
Against the backdrop of the Philippine-American War at the start of the 1900s Rafael, the leader of a small village, is having to deal with the laws of the occupation soldiers and the rebel ambitions of his community.
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An Island
Vincent Moon, Efterklang, Denmark, 2011, HD, 48’
On the small island of Als, off the Danish coast, Vincent Moon lands with the band Efterklang. A trip to an island that plays and listens, in a film that plays on the abstraction of image and sound and the concreteness with which they reverberate in the places and souls of a small Baltic community.
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And Everything Is Going Fine
Steven Soderbergh, United States, 2010, HDCam, 89’
Spalding Gray was one of the greatest actors and "political" playwrights in American theatre in recent decades. After Jonathan Demme (Swimming to Cambodia), Steven Soderbergh reconstucts his extraordinary career and devotes devotes a fascinating portrait to him.
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Angels Hard as They Come
Joe Viola, United States, 1971, 35mm, 85’
Demme's first experience in the Roger Corman's production house: one of the best examples of an explotation films of that era. Demme's friend Joe Viola as director, while Demme worked on the production and screenplay.
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Anna
Ruben Pest, Netherlands, 2008, 35mm, 5’
Everyone knows girls mature earlier than boys. They understand love earlier, are able to perceive body language and thoughts. Most of all, they understand when a boy approaches them, but is paralyzed by shyness. As seen in this short film: a four-minute amusement ride that conveys a declaration of love that will remain unheard.
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Anna
Ruben Pest, Netherlands, 2008, 35mm, 5’
Everyone knows girls mature earlier than boys. They understand love earlier, are able to perceive body language and thoughts. Most of all, they understand when a boy approaches them, but is paralyzed by shyness. As seen in this short film: a four-minute amusement ride that conveys a declaration of love that will remain unheard.
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Aral - El Mar Perdido
Aral - The Lost Sea
Isabel Coixet, Spain, 2009, 35mm, 25’
Since the fifties, the Aral Sea, one of the most important salt water basins in the world, has been subject to an irreversible process of desiccation thanks to the Soviet Union's excessive cotton production.
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Arirang
Kim Ki-duk, South Korea, 2011, Digibeta, 100’
Acclaimed for a decade as the most original voice of contemporary Korean film, Kim Ki-duk remained stationary for three years. For his return he chooses an extreme and purifying road: putting himself on scene with no filter. Winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2011, it is presented as an Italian première.
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Atelier Colla
Pietro De Tilla, Guglielmo Trupia, Elvio Manuzzi, Italy, 2011, Digital full HD, 49’
The sheer daily hard work of the company Carlo Colla & Figli is filmed on the quiet, in front of and behind the scenes, with empathy and respect, in the Atelier laboratory.
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Axis and Allies
Ernst De Geer, Sweden, 2010, HD, 16’
An engaged couple and a friend meet up for a table games match. After a misunderstanding, a fourth person arrives. The misinterpretation gives life to an incandescent night, where the game becomes dangerously serious. A classic situation - the unwelcome guest - is the pretext for a sharp portrayal of couples, between constraints and hushed desires. The budding De Geer is 22 years old. His dramatic ability, sense of humour and managing of the actors indicate that he could be ten years older.
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All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat)
Louis Hudson, United Kingdom, 2011, Computer Generated, 9’
A little man lives in a cat who lives in a house. Then, out of the mouse hole in the living room, a classic image from the Tom and Jerry animation set, comes an equally little woman. They will find it hard to meet without scaring the owner of the house, a woman of normal size. An animated comedy in 2D created by hand before, thanks to a million You Tube hits, being noted and produced by the UK Film Council and Screen WM. Laughter guaranteed.
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Asylum
Joern Utkilen, United Kingdom, 2010, Super 16mm, 17’
Two immigrants in a reception centre go to English school. One of them, an Afghan, wants to become an expert cow breeder; the other, Chinese, dreams of falling in love with a beautiful Scottish woman, but until he succeeds he continue to attempt suicide. A surreal comedy about the dreams of integration of two "perfect immigrants", by a Norwegian writer - immigrated to Scotland - fresh from a trash-punk re-reading of Cappuccetto Rosso.
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Apele Tac
Silent River
Anca Miruna Lazarescu, Germany / Romania, 2011, 35mm, 30’
Gregor and Vali want to escape from Ceaucescu's Romania. Their
plan is to swim across the river to Serbia. To achieve their goal they
need each other. However, Vali's wife does not want to leave. The
crossing will be hard. Amongst the best films at the recent Berlin
festival, it is the Romanian director's graduation piece. He uses
the thriller genre to explore the darkest recesses of memory, and
includes scenes shot to great dramatic effect under water.
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Actus
Kika Nicolela, Brazil, 2010, 4K Red, 17’
A family scene. A couple are caught up in a futile argument about a microwave and a manicure. Though changing constantly, the scene is endlessly repeated. The artist Nicolela takes to extremes the confusion between reality and mise-en-scène to illustrate the limits and the possibilities presented by being an onlooker. This inventive narrative device is subject to caustic variations on the theme of the routine habits of coupledom. The trick is to find a thousand different details… and a piece of cake.
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