Before the industrial boom that started in the 80s, Yiwu was just an unremarkable poor town and the industry of cheap plastics disguised in Christmas motives made it into a considerably big and affluent city that draws a lot of migrant workers from nearby villages and other parts of China.
The thing Gugić nails in her film is the connection between the theatrics of a cock fight, opera and cocky behavior of humans. We have a principal cast of a tenor and a baritone as the fighters and a soprano as “the prize” they are fighting for.
Testfilm #1 is an attempt at documenting the project and its related testings that people from Telcosystems undertook.
Observation is intertwined with interviews sometimes masked as over-heard conversations in order to provide the context for particular situations
Nobody Said I Have to Love You looks and acts like an advanced student film, which it is, realized completely in the production of Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (ARGFT).
A lot of filmmaker’s compassion can be read from the way the director follows her protagonist in different daily routines from up close.
Having the unpleasant, but highly necessary topic in mind, and the blend of filmmaking craft and ethics by Gavran, One of Us has to be considered as an exceptionally important piece of documentary filmmaking.
By the description and by the design of the opening credits, one might assume that Antiotpad is a piece of genre filmmaking, perhaps a kind of youth thriller. However….
Microcassette is a film hard to label in any way, which is clear right from the disclaimer at the very beginning stating that some parts of the story are not true, so we can take it as a work of fiction more than a documentary.
