Programme edition 2021
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AIF C.W. Winter, Anders Edström - 2 (The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin))
C.W. Winter, Anders Edström
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), the second feature from C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, is an eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of ...
Al-Ahlam al-Mumkinna (Permissible Dreams)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
Permissible Dreams traces the life of Oum Said, a woman farmer living in a small town on the Suez Canal. Although
she does not read or write, the woman in question is her
family’s economist, doctor, and the planner of its future,
as she dreams “to the limits of her ...
Al-Sandawich (The Sandwich)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
The Sandwich explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south
of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south
of Egypt pass through without stopping.
Amor de Perdição (Amor de Perdição )
Manoel de Oliveira
The third entry in Oliveira’s Tetralogy. Based on the novel by Camilo Castelo Branco. A major innovation is the presentation of story: off-screen narration often running counter to what is shown.
The Anchorage
C.W. Winter, Anders Edström
C.W. Winter & Anders Edström’s first film, shot in Sweden's Stockholm Archipelago, describes the life of a woman, Ulla Edström, over the course of three fictional days.
Arnulf Rainer
Peter Kubelka
What we have here is something like a data compression of Luigi Russolo/Kazimir Malevich/Lászlo Moholy-Nagy/Yves Klein. Behold
Arrows
Sandra Lahire
Arrows uses a combination of live action and rostrum work to communicate the experience of anorexia and to analyse the cultural causes of the condition.
Autoficción (Autoficción)
Laida Lertxundi
Borrowing its title from a literary genre, the film acknowledges the indeterminacy of both fiction and the self. Noir elements are reduced to deadpan gestures under bright California sunlight.
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Best Year Ever
James N. Kienitz Wilkins
It is rather safe to say that very few people had their best year ever recently. James N. Kienitz Wilkins scans the pages of Richard Scarry’s children’s book classic Best Busy Year Ever with a 16 mm camera. Accompanied by Claude Debussy’s Petite Suite his captivating voice ...
Beyrouth, jamais plus (Beirut, Never Again)
Jocelyne Saab
Gunfire and song mix with a poetic voice-over written by the Lebanese writer and painter Etel Adnan (who also wrote
a text for Letter from Beirut) in what would become the first
entry in Saab’s “Beirut Trilogy”, which searches for traces
of life amid the bombed-out buildings ...
Beyrouth, ma ville (Beirut, My City)
Jocelyne Saab
Beirut, My City finds Saab and her collaborator, the playwright and director Roger Assaf, returning to the shell of her former home following Israel’s 1982 invasion, finding
small glimmers of hope in the chaos of refugee camps and
the rubble of decimated neighborhoods.
Bihar al-'Attash (Seas of Thirst)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
In Seas of Thirst, Al-Abnoudy moves away from her usual exploration of Egypt’s south to the north of the country,
wherein she captures communities living near the salty
lakes of El Borrolos during a treacherous drought.
Black Ixchell Candle Ixchell
Ana Mendieta
A haunting Santerían morsel of mysticism, ritual, and artist-as-subject from the towering Cuban-American.
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Caught In the Rain (Caught In the Rain)
Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens
“Three men are working on a construction site. The work has been interrupted by five months of imprisonment. The rain suddenly falls like the silence that precedes an eviction.”
Chansons d’amour (Love Songs)
Jean-Claude Rousseau
Here, Rousseau continues his examination of what is and isn’t worthy of being an image, of being a scene, of being a film. A self-portrait whose very suspense is drawn from the tensions of those questions. A film that dares into the almost-nothing.
City Hall (City Hall)
Frederick Wiseman
City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for granted services such as police, fire, sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing of various professional activities, record keeping of birth, marriage and death as ...
A program curated by Alexander Horwath.This program is a somewhat surreal — or childlike — attempt at telling a story of the 20th century.
A Cold Draft
Lis Rhodes
What is most provocative about this film is that it proposes multiple credible points of view even as the woman is being certified insane by the ‘Censors’. We voyage into the skull of a woman and peer out to a monumentally static cold waste wit planetary slow motion. It is a ...
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De l'autre côté (From the Other Side)
Chantal Akerman
A documentary, a journey, an encounter with people. The footage was shot on the border between Mexico and the United States. In the desert, a screen stands between a Mexican and a North American mountain.
Defenestration
Bea Haut
Mixing up film and domestic structures, this film reaches beyond the frame, testing out access and escape, aperture and portal. The letraset sound also bumps its way across the frame boundary into the visible.
Double Labyrinthe
Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki
An intercorporeal study in two parts, carried out entirely by two women in search of their own mental structures, their own poetics, their own language. One films the other.
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Edge
Sandra Lahire
This short, named after Sylvia Plath’s last poem, is about the woman who is a daughter; icy, perfected and petrified for the patriarchy. She is also a mother drawing her two children with her into this death-in-life. Edge is the irony, which is the poet’s defiance.
Eerie
Sandra Lahire
A magical film loop, combining a Berlin Lesbian decadence with falling in love in a cablecar, high above the slopes of Mount Pilatus. Inspired by German expressionist filmmaking, with in-camera dissolves. (Sandra Lahire)
Days after the massacre of Karantina, in a predominantly Muslim shanty town in Beirut, Jocelyne Saab met children
who’d escaped, and who were deeply traumatised by the
horrific fighting they’d seen with their own eyes.
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Les femmes palestiniennes (Palestinian Women)
Jocelyne Saab
Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian War, are here given a voice by Jocelyne
Saab. Commissioned by Antenne 2, but never aired.
Un film dramatique
Éric Baudelaire
First initiated in autumn 2015 as a documentary about the newly constructed Dora Maar junior high school in the Paris
suburb of Saint-Denis, the final film has transformed, over
regular shooting sessions with students from the school’s
film group, into an amorphous and ...
Flowers blooming in our throats
Eva Giolo
Flowers blooming in our throats is a cinematic poem in response to the worldwide pandemic of 2020.
Focii
Jeanette Iljon
Focii not only explores the construction of self, and the dynamics of self and other, but also the interaction between the viewer’s body and the body onscreen, raising questions on the nature of identification in cinema.
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Home
Margaret Salmon
A short film depicting a woman putting her children to sleep, cleaning dishes, then dancing with a ghost. Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses the physical material of film, and expressive bodies, to interpret emotional and imaginative relationships between daily tasks, gendered ...
Husan al-Tin (Horse of Mud)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
In her first film, made on a shoestring with borrowed equipment, Atteyat Al-Abnoudy captures the basic process of mud-brick making on the banks of the Nile.
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The Inheritance
Ephraim Asili
After nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — which resulted in his Diaspora Suite (Courtisane festival 2018), Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost ...
Iqa' al-Haya (Rhythm of Life)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
A beautiful depiction of the daily life of farmers, the film unfolds in
the filmmaker’s characteristically unobtrusive and deeply
humane manner.