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September 8, 2022/Posted by: Mustafa Uzuner

DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA

USA/France/Switzerland  - 2022 - 115' Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the...
Directors/Réalisateurs: Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.

September 8, 2022/Posted by: Mustafa Uzuner

The Novelist’s Film

South Korea  - 2022 - 92' A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a bookstore, run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on...
Director/Réalisateur: Hong Sangsoo

A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a bookstore, run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on her own and runs into a film director and his wife. They take a walk in a park and meet an actress, after which the novelist tries to convince the actress to make a film with her. She and the actress get something to eat, then revisit the bookstore where a group of people are drinking. The actress gets drunk and falls asleep...

September 8, 2022/Posted by: Mustafa Uzuner

Keane (New 4K Restoration)

USA - 2004 - 94' William Keane (Damian Lewis) is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling...
Director/Réalisateur: Lodge Kerrigan

"A masterfully harrowing psychodrama. It was with KEANE, his third feature (and first co-produced by Steven Soderbergh), that Kerrigan secured his reputation as a a singular, celebrated voice of the modern American independent cinema."

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November 16, 2021/Posted by: Ege

Introduction

South Korea  - 2021 - 66' Youngho is summoned by his father, who is a doctor. Finding him busy with his patients, one of whom is a famous actor, Youngho has to wait. When his...
Director/Réalisateur: Hong Sangsoo

Two mothers attempt to introduce their children to life, but their offspring have decided to write their own introduction. That’s life, and, like all masters imbued with wisdom and wit, Hong appears to be speaking through the old actor when the latter tells Youngho, “However small, there’s nothing but good!”

November 15, 2021/Posted by: Ege

A NIGHT OF NOT KNOWING

India/France  - 2021 - 101' A university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her....
Director/Réalisatrice: Payal Kapadia

A university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.

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November 15, 2021/Posted by: Ege

The Metamorphosis Of Birds

Portugal  - 2020 - 101' Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the inaugural Encounters section at Berlin 2020, the stunning debut feature of Portuguese writer-director Catarina Vasconcelos is a lush, poetic film memoir...
Director/Réalisatrice: Catarina Vasconcelos

Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the inaugural Encounters section at Berlin 2020, the stunning debut feature of Portuguese writer-director Catarina Vasconcelos is a lush, poetic film memoir that beautifully blends together metaphor, metafiction, and family lore.

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October 5, 2020/Posted by: Ege

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

USA / Sweden / Japan / UK  - 2020 - 480 minutes (4 parts) The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is an extraordinary eight-hour fiction feature shot for a total of...
Directors/Réalisateurs: Anders Edstrom, CW Winter

A geographic description of fourteen months of the work and non-work of Tayoko in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. A georgic in five books.

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October 5, 2020/Posted by: Ege

Sheytan vojud nadarad / There is No Evil / Le Diable n’existe pas

Germany / Czech Republic / Iran - 2020  - 150' Heshmat, an exemplary husband and father, gets up very early every day. Where does he go? Pouya cannot imagine killing another man, yet he is...
Director/Réalisateur: Mohammad Rasoulof

The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.

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April 2, 2020/Posted by: Ege

Vitalina Varela

Portugal - 2019 - 124' The most recent film from Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa is another moody, masterful portrait of Fontainhas, the now-vanished Lisbon neighbourhood that the director first began chronicling over two decades ago...
Director/Réalisateur: Pedro Costa

Costa's latest vision of Cape Verdean immigrants — a highlight from this year's Locarno Film Festival — is another lyrical vision of somber people confronting their past. -Eric Kohn / Dans l’obscurité somptueuse d’un quartier traversé d’ombres hiératiques, soudain le rouge de draps sanglants. Arrivée trop tard, Vitalina Varela n’a plus qu’à gérer les affaires de son mari défunt. Elle ne pleurera pour aucun malheureux: face aux hommes rongés ou déchus, elle s’attelle à rebâtir, plan après plan, mur après mur, contre la triste réalité d’une vie n’ayant pu se construire au Portugal sous un toit décent, le souvenir d’une solide maison commune au Cap-Vert. Antoine Thirion

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December 12, 2019/Posted by: Ege

Murmur

Canada - 2019 - 84' Donna, a woman in her sixties, feels isolated. She lives alone, estranged from her daughter. Sentenced to community service at a local animal shelter after an impaired-driving conviction, she ends...
Director/Réalisatrice: Heather Young

In her debut, writer/director Heather Young has managed to showcase the humanity of an individual who is currently reeling in her own bout of depression and substance abuse without making the entire affair feel like a grand statement that is aggressively soliciting its audience for sympathy. However, in its own subdued way, it does tug at the old proverbial heartstrings but more so like a dog relentlessly attempting to make a bed in those heartstrings. -Kevin Rakestraw

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December 12, 2019/Posted by: Ege

Belonging/Aidiyet

Turkey/Canada/France- 2019- 72' A transfixing sophomore feature from 26-year-old Turkish director Burak Çevik, Belonging opens with a story. Not just any story, but a sordid tale of senseless violence: his grandmother’s murder by his Aunt Pelin and...
Director/Réalisateur: Burak Çevik

"Like many a great film, Belonging is simultaneously simple in its complexity and complex in its simplicity, and its particular qualities are ones that offer a great deal to ponder both during and after viewing. Its personal aspects are evident–in the prologue, Çevik says that he hopes this film will allow him to stop stumbling over themes of death and killing in his own work–and yet genuine connection, between the doomed lovers, between the film and the viewer, is the overriding sensation." -Ryan Swen

October 25, 2019/Posted by: Ege

Come As You Are

USA- 2019- 106' Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded driver, to visit a Montreal brothel that caters to special needs clients. Inspired by a true story, three young men with disabilities...
Director/Réalisateur: Richard Wong

Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Remake of the acclaimed Belgian film 'Hasta La Vista'.

October 25, 2019/Posted by: Ege

Light From Light

USA- 2019- 82' Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Sheila (Marin Ireland) is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she meets Richard (Jim Gaffigan),...
Director/Réalisateur: Paul Harrill

Ireland and Gaffigan can express so much with a single glance and they’re both exquisite here, radiating intelligence and uncertainty...[W]hile the characters may be chasing apparitions in Light From Light, it restores one’s belief in other people, a somewhat radical and entirely galvanizing notion for the world we live in now. - Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest

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August 13, 2019/Posted by: Ege

I Was at Home, But / J’etais chez mois, mais

Germany- 2019- 103' After having disappeared for a week, Astrid’s 13-year-old son Phillip returns home one day without saying a word. Both his mother and teachers suspect that his disappearance may be related to the...
Director/Réalisatrice: Angela Schanelec

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life

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May 27, 2019/Posted by: Ege

Rojo

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, France, Switzerland – 2018 – 109′ In the mid-seventies, a strange man arrives in a quiet provincial city. In a restaurant, without any apparent reason, he starts insulting Claudio, a renowned lawyer. The...
Director/Réalisateur: Benjamín Naishtat

In the mid-seventies, a strange man arrives in a quiet provincial city./ Argentine, 1975. Claudio, avocat réputé et notable local, mène une existence confortable, acceptant de fermer les yeux sur les pratiques du régime en place.