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Stanleyville
Office drone Maria Barbizan leads what looks like a meaningless life. She’s lonely, and she doesn’t really exist, at her job or within her family. One day, she does everything we’ve all dreamed of – she throws her purse and old life in the trash, and joins an enigmatic contest to win... a car. Locked in a room with four strangers, each more eccentric than the next, she must go through a series of challenges – a “competition to probe the very essence of mind-body articulation”, lead by Homunculus, an intriguing and curious host.
Film
"This piece, with the generic title Film, is a series of short videos built around one protocol: a snippet of news from a newspaper of the day, is rolled up and then placed on a black-inked surface. On making contact with the liquid, the roll opens and of Its own accord frees itself of the gesture that fashioned it. As it comes alive in this way, the sliver of paper reveals Its hitherto unexposed content; this unpredictable kinematics is evidence of the constant impermanence of news. As well as exploring a certain archaeology of cinema, the mechanism references the passage of time: the ink, whether it is poured or printed, is the ink of ongoing human history." –Ismaïl Bahri
The Great American Songbook
Sparkling performances by Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Al Jolson, the teenage Dorothy Dandridge and the flash-dancing Nicholas Brothers light up this great documentary that originally aired on educational television. Using rare and never-before-seen footage, singer-pianist and musical historian Michael Feinstein hosts an informative look at the composers and lyricists who wrote America's standards from the 1890s through the mid-1950s.
Nostalgia
A young college student is given a disturbing ultimatum when a dark secret from his past is resurrected.
Kizhakkunarum Pakshi
Kizhakkunarum Pakshi is a musical film about film industry and the life and struggling of music directors, singers etc.
In These Parkas We Can Only Be Warm
Two parka-adorned silhouettes engage in a barely-audible conversation about Snapchat, grades, money, and other unintelligible topics, until one notices something on the other's glasses. It is not ice.
L'Amitié
“I have on occasion experienced filmmaking as an intensely shared activity. Lively friendships result and remain. Filming that affection today is no act of nostalgia. Paths once crossed make things simple. People who have been behind the camera, or in front of it, giving the movie their all, are without illusion.” (Alain Cavalier)
Talking Heads 2021
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
MacNab's Visit to London
A keen Scots golfer wrecks his host's house.
Dr. Lamb
An abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result. The muderer, Laiu, likes to take photos of the victims dismembered bodies as momentos. Inspector Lee is called onto the case in this bizarre thriller.
The Revamping of Dracula
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dracula" (1979).
The Judge Steps Out
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Amor casi... libre
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A hitman is tasked to take out ex-mobsters when he suddenly hears a voice that questions his morality.
Living Well is the Best Revenge
A meeting of filmmakers, one idyllic country estate, a fictional optical sound lead, a documentary super-8-image-storm. Both uncut.
Ten cuidaito
Monkey Face
A disgraced, unappreciative, and dishonest traitor lends his help to take down his boss Jesus Cano, a respected landowner who he betrays just out of hate and envy, using his trucks to transport drugs from the most wanted drug trafficker Reyes. His name is Chano and because of his appearance they call him "El Cara De Chango" (Monkey Face).
Phoenix the Ninja
A female ninja gets avenges her mother's death.