Beket
(Italy,80 min.)
Director:
Davide Manuli
Cast:
Luciano Curreli, Jerome Duranteau, Fabrizio Gifuni, Roberto "Freak" Antoni, Paolo Rossi, Simone Maludrottu, Simona Caramelli
Loosely based on Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot, Beket takes place in a no man's land outside of time when mankind no longer inhabits the planet. Freak and Jaja meet at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere where a bus arrives but doesn't stop. FIPRESCI award, Locarno Film Festival.
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Demystify - A Trilogy
(Italy,43 min.)
Director:
Maia Guarnaccia Molho
Cast:
What would happen if Hittler met Gandhi, Coco Channel met Joan of Arc and Che Guevara met Garibaldi?
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Hunger
(UK/Ireland,96 min.)
Director:
Steve McQueen
Cast:
Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon,
Winner of the 2008 Camera d'Or at Cannes for Best First Feature, Hunger is a powerful drama focusing on the infamous six-week hunger strike that IRA prisoners, led by Bobby Sands in the early 1980s, used as a way of publicizing their demands to be recognized as political prisoners.
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On War (De La Guerre)
(France,130 min.)
Director:
Bertrand Bonello
Cast:
Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento, Guillaume Depardieu, Clotilde Hesme
A hypnotic rumination on life, liberty and man's relationship to nature, On War unfolds mostly at The Kingdom, a mysterious mansion in the countryside where the inhabitants investigate what is required to experience true unfiltered spiritual, mental, and physical pleasure. Mathieu Amalric and Asia Argento deliver tour de force performances.
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SHALLOW
(USA,85 min.)
Director:
Malcolm McLaren
Cast:
A multimedia work, the musical paintings (Shallow 1-21) are a series of original musical 'cut-ups' composed by Malcolm McLaren and set to appropriated film clips of ordinary people who are about to have sex. Malcolm McLaren is represented by the Schcibler Mitte Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
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Universalove
(Austria/Luxemburg/Serbia,83 min.)
Director:
Thomas Woschitz
Cast:
Magda Gomes, Erom Cordeiro, Anica Dobra, Dušan Aškovi?, Kyoichi Komoto, Makiko Kawai, Liza Machover, Samir "RPZ" Menouar, Rachel Dorfman, Dan Burkarth, Daniel Plier, Sascha Migge
Composed from an assortment of images and set to a haunting soundtrack by Austrian indie band Naked Lunch, Universalove is a new type of music film. Similar to cinematic mood pieces such as Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi, it weaves together collectively understood images for a symphony that traverses all languages, cultures and orientations.
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Where is Where?
(Finland,35 min.)
Director:
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Cast:
Kati Outinen, Tommi Korpela, Leea Klemola, Alaeddin Alaeddine, Taha Muhammad Rguibi
This 4-image split screen film is a meditation on violence and hate. A writer, death and two small children who kill a friend, are among the characters who try to contextualize a larger historical event about the massacre of an Albanian village in France.
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