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News from filmmakers who remain close to the festival and its spirit. Previews, first screenings, rarities...

Gustav Deutsch - Film IST. A Girl and a Gun

Using images "from the first four and a half decades of cinematography", Gustav Deutsch has constructed a musical "film drama in five acts." The editing is based on visual analogies, the superficial similarity of bodies, objects, movements (...)

Harun Farocki - Zum Vergleich (In Comparison)

A look at different brick-making techniques around the world, from handmade clay bricks to high-tech precision building components.

Herz Frank - Par desmit minutem vecaks (Ten Minutes Older)

The face of a child watching a puppet show.

Herz Frank - Muzigais Meginajums (Perpetual Rehearsal)

Perpetual Rehearsal is compiled of video journals, which Frank recorded for over ten years, as the loyal chronicler of the theatre group Gesher. Yevgeny Arye, the founder of Gesher ("bridge" in Hebrew), brought together actors who had (...)

Heddy Honigmann - El Olvido (Oblivion)

Peru, a forgotten land - like most countries in Latin America. Occasionally - during presidential elections, after a powerful earthquake - the world remembers Peru’s existence, but just for a few (...)

Boris Lehman - Portrait du peintre dans son atelier

The encounter between two visions (that of painter Arié Mandelbaum and the filmmaker’s) and the voice of a female opera singer in the painter’s studio.

Boris Lehman - Un peintre sous surveillance

Boris Lehman returns to his friend Arié, twenty years after making Portrait du peintre dans son atelier.

Raya Martin - Now Showing

Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest districts with her mother and aunt. Years later, she is still the same girl enamoured with television, now also tending to (...)

Jonas Mekas - Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR

Forces of time, memory, change, and the human condition: Mekas recorded newscasts that played daily from 1989 to 1991 on his television set at home, as a chronological overview of Lithuania’s birth as an independent (...)

Claudio Pazienza - Archipels nitrate

"(…) I am what I’ve seen, said Matisse. But all the images seen do not remain intact. Even less so the image of oneself. Time crosses them, spoils them, torments them. And this sensitive skin - nitrate - is the symptom of this" (...)

Helga Reidemeister - Mein Herz sieht die Welt schwarz - Ein Liebe in Kabul (My Heart Feels Gloom - A Kabul Love Story)

Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war...

Dominic Gagnon - Rip in Pieces America

"I was watching videos on Internet and I noticed that some were flagged because of their content. As they were disappearing from the free access sites, I began to save and edit them." (D.G.)
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