Children from Antwerp, Athens and Sarajevo were asked to interprete the fragments of their towns caught on the sticky surface of the rolls of transparent tapes they rolled on the surfaces of just anything they found interesting.
Dialogue free and focused on (some of) 750 dogs sheltered in ‘Le Cœur sur la Patte’ sanctuary in Agadir (Morocco), Mutts almost doesn’t feel like a documentary regarding the way it was approached cinematographically.
I do admit that having “a semi-clothed” face in the cinema wasn’t something I immediately embraced mentally, although I did physically. It took me a while not to pay attention to it and fully concentrate on the film I was watching.
‘Mama’ is a film about the mutual healing process of the chimpanzee babies and their carer, all of them marked by deep traumas.
In his short documentary Carbón, the Swiss director Davide Tisato shows the life of Ismael and Nivardo as the citizens of the world of the underprivileged working class.
Reaching for the combination of three myths: the one of Vagina Dentata, a folk tale according to which vaginas are equipped with teeth that can emasculate or castrate men, the water nymph Iara and the Amazon river dolphine (the shapeshifter known as encantado), in their script for Menarche Líbia Perez & Lillah Halla unite several types of all three interpretations into one.
Mysterious in its main build-up, the narrative doesn’t disappoint by meeting the viewers expectations as to where it’s going.
David Pinhiero Vincente’s sophomore short The Lamb Of God is based on the stories he was told by his father who came from the village of Solheira where the film was shot, to be precise – in the very house he had spent his childhood in. T
Anna Samo dedicates her eight short animation Conversations With A Whale to all her friends “who are dancing with their demons and talking to their whales”. The subject of the film deals, after all, with a shared trauma they are all going through upon finishing their art projects. The happiness one is overwhelmed with once […]
