UN CŒUR PERDU ET AUTRES RÊVES DE BEYROUTH France | 2023 | 36 min A film that plays with offscreen space by way of static but restless shots, reflecting surfaces that disclose other, intimate and public, spaces. These offer no hint whatsoever of the 2020 explosion in the port of Beirut, the political and financial […]
Tag: 64 Festival dei Popoli
CALLS FROM MOSCOW
LLAMADAS DESDE MOSCÚ Germany, Cuba, Norway | 2023 | 60 min Holed up in a flat in Moscow, a group of young people spend their days making all kinds of calls: conversations with distant loved ones, counselling, announcements for migrants. They are Cuban exiles belonging to the LGBTIQ+ community. Russia is the only European country […]
TAXIBOL
Italy | 2023 | 50 min On board a vehicle driving through the streets of Havana, Lav Diaz chats with a taxi driver. The Filipino film director discusses his filmmaking in terms of a mission, laying the foundations for a film that can offer justice to his people: in this case, by going in search […]
ZINZINDURRUNKARRATZ
Spain | 2023 | 90 min An old Super8 film camera, a lot of footage, much of it silent. What are really those images? How do they question us over forty years on from the moment they were filmed? Here begins a journey that, departing from a set of home movies, soon becomes a poetic […]
THE BURITI FLOWER
CROWRÃ Portugal, Brazil | 2023 | 124 min Shot over 15 months in several villages in the Krahô territory, Central Brazil, The Buriti Flower is the result of years of working with the communities explored in the film by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora. Proximity, shared creation, and militancy are the basis of a […]
CABBAGE
Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada | 2023 | 25 min Reformulating language and putting what is kept at the margins back into the centre, illuminating relationships of care at its core, discussing the subtle violence of a bureaucratic and ableist logic that fails to capture the nuances of a life lived fully even in a non-verbal […]
HYPERMOON
Sweden | 2023 | 78 min A poetic, unrestrained, and personal film, Hypermoon explores the secret and hidden connections between the course of memory and the fragility of existence. Mia Engberg goes back on her crazy youth in Paris until the present, interweaving threads of memory that, travelling between time and space, reconnect her to […]
DANCING ON THE EDGE OF A VOLCANO
Germany, Lebanon | 2023 | 87 min On August 4, 2020, Mounia Akl is about to begin principal photography for her debut feature Costa Brava, that was to premiere one year later at the Venice Film Festival, when a huge explosion in the Beirut harbour annihilates the city and the life of its population. Against […]
THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES
KADIB ABYAD Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt | 2023 | 97 min Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir departs from an absence to make a hybrid documentary that is at once a personal portrait and a deadpan inquisition into her country’s recent history. What the film is lacking is only the photographs, forbidden traces that represent […]
THE LOST BOYS OF MERCURY
LE OUBLIÉS DE LA BELLE ÉTOILE France | 2023 | 106 min Three elderly men reunite in a country house close to Albertville, in the French Savoie. Michel has fixed an abundant meal and they sit together at the table to enjoy a nice sunny day. But that which seems an idyllic reunion of old […]