20. IFF Watch Docs: About Dignity in Old Age
For Soda, the prism of the camera is a tool for learning about the world from the level of carte blanche, from the level of a child looking at it with senses and emotions, not experience.
For Soda, the prism of the camera is a tool for learning about the world from the level of carte blanche, from the level of a child looking at it with senses and emotions, not experience.
Mikami is a former yakuza who has been released after 13 years of prison. Despite the fact that the protagonist does not show special remorse for the murder he did years earlier, he decides to try to start life anew, this time legally, honestly.
“Verdict” is a shocking film that takes no prisoners. Raymund Ribay Gutierrez draws his story with such ruthless, naturalistic at times, firmness…
There is no doubt that VR has opened new avenues for apologists for immersive interactivity in the cinema. The film diegesis opens up to viewers…
“Beauty Water” by Cho Kyung-hun is an animation involved in the fight against the universal perception of human beauty and media patterns…
“The Metamorphosis of Birds” is like a time capsule sent into space, like a condensed record of human experiences. It is like a “saudade”…
Rosi builds his documentary with a great visual reverence, devoting most of his time to search for beauty in real-life drama. But it was precisely this contrast…
In Lois Patiño’s Red Moon Tide lies a threat – a terrifying force that stops time, which slowly consumes the meaning of life and compels it to stay in an endless stillness.
New Order is a frighteningly up-to-date film, after all, the thriller dynamics fits perfectly into the everyday life of all those who live in conflict with the state and harmful social systems that do not affect only the privileged.
The film was shot by Alzakout herself, when she fled Syria with other refugees in 2015, and the boat they were sailing sank near the coast of Greece.