The archive footage is connected with vignettes dedicated to the key members of Kalas Group, shot in vintage style and masterly edited to a a smooth-flowing story of strong friendships and clever, humor-loaded, performance-filled battle against politics of hate and intolerance of minorities.
The film stars young talents Prince Agortey and Matilda Enchil playing more or less themselves – children from the same neighborhood who spend days outside, inventing new ways to have fun.
Five-year-old Michelle is grieving after her grandmother who has recently passed away. To cope with the old woman’s absence, she believes her to be reincarnated in her pet turtle.
If there is a feel of renaissance painting in Jaro Minne’s drama A Sister and A Brother (Da-Dzma), this comes from the often used one-point perspective that lets us peek through the doors standing ajar or curtain-clad windows.
A terminally ill single father is feverishly trying to provide his son with a loving home before he dies.
Mizaru was the thesis film by Sudarshan Suresh, awarded Best Film at Columbia University School of the Arts’ last year, and this film happens to be one of the strongest contenders in Dokufest’ s International Short Film Competition.
Last year’s Locarno contender which is currently screening in the International Shorts Competition at Dokufest, is a sickening story of violence “provoked” by a young woman’s reaction on catcalling and insults.
Shot analogue on 16mm and interestingly framed in the vast terminal space whose modern architecture gets as much significance in the story-plotting as the titular character’s indecisiveness, Allamand’s drama is a visual stunner.
Erenik Beqiri wrote a sharp as a knife script about a family of two men who are ready to do anything for one another, but acting on their own impulse, they are actually doing a disservice to each other.
