Ronit Kertsner’s 6th feature-length documentary Refugee Lullaby which world-premiered in Graz at the Diagonale, is an intimate portrait or Hans Breuer who became famous as “the Austrian sheperd who drives refugees across borer to safety” (Patrick Kingsley for The Guardian) and his attempts to help as many people as possible on their hellish way to […]
There is something quite irresistible in the introductory information that „Cinema Povero“ presents „A Millionaire’s Melancholy”
The British film critic, curator, programmer and festival advisor Neil Young has made his first feature-length film Rihaction which has just had its world-premiere at the Diagonale. The film is completely based on 37 YouTube reaction videos on the performance by Tom Holland in the popular American musical competition series ‘Lip Sync Battle’, where he […]
It takes more than a plain interest in experimental films to go to see Rihaction, a debut feature-length film by the British film critic, curator and programmer Neil Young.
What is left after huge tragedies on the open sea, when refugees drown? Scattered along the rocky coastal part of the Greek island Lesbos are small, wracked boats, clothes, shoes, mobile phones and children toys.
In her sixth documentary Refugee Lullaby, Ronit Kertsner aims her focus at Hans Breuer, a shepherd who had chosen a secluded, modest life-style in the countryside over his previous, Viennese.
It’s Bertolt Brecht’s quote – What kind of times are these, when to talk about trees is almost a crime because it implies silence about so many horrors?
“Why do you think you drink?”, the 25-year old Veera asks her father Heikki in his bachelor pad during their first encounter after 15 years of zero physical contact.
With his documentary The Raft which scooped the DOX:Award at the CPH:DOX in 2018, Swedish director Marcus Lindeen is breaking the myth of Santiago Genovés’ controversial experiment that took place in 1973. This adventure almost looks as an early draft for the reality show “Get me out of here, I’m a celebrity”
