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Ukhilavi Sivrtseebi (Invisible Spaces)

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directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili/ A usual family morning begins to unravel when hidden tensions emerge. “I grew up in a really tiny place on the border of Azerbaijan with my grandparents during the civil war and collapse of the Soviet Union. We didn’t have electricity, so I actually never really got to watch films when […]

Ja Vi Elsker (Yes We Love)

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directed by Hallvar Witzø/ Four generations, each with a crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the Norwegian Independence Day. “The reason I made this movie was to strip off and be totally naked, to do something artistically challenging that I had never done before, something that I couldn’t dodge in the editing […]

Les Corps Étrangers (Foreign Bodies)

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directed by Laura Wandel/ During his rehabilitation, a war photographer is apprehensive of the look of other people on him and the proximity of his body. The physiotherapist who is helping him will try to restore his ability to watch the world around him differently. “When I get an idea for writing a script, I’m […]

Feral

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directed by Daniel Sousa/ A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest. “Whenever I started working on something I gravitated towards fairytales and […]

The Voorman Problem

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directed by Mark Gill/ A psychiatrist is called to a prison to examine an inmate named Voorman, who is convinced he is a god. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNyXNYeiwA&hd=1 “It’s funny, the film is actually really popular in Belgium, believe it or not. We’ve taken it there three or four times to film festivals. We played Brussels and we […]

The Lady at Number 6

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directed by Malcolm Clarke/ At 109, Alice Herz Sommer is the world’s oldest pianist…and its oldest Holocaust survivor. At the heart of her remarkable story of courage and endurance is her passion for music. “I would be completely disingenuous if I didn’t say the only thing that winning an Oscar makes you feel is you […]

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)

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directed by Esteban Crespo/ Paula, a Spanish aid worker, has an encounter with an African child soldier named Kaney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR9Fdn-a9-Q&hd=1 “I read an interview with a child soldier retelling his story as an adult. He was talking about the things that he had done or that he was made to do when he was a […]

Room on the Broom

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directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer/ A genial witch and her cat are joined on their broom by several friends as they set off on an adventure. “I’ve always been really into drawing. When I was 12 I saw The Lion King and I wished I could do something like that, but at that […]

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

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directed by Edgar A. Barens/ In a maximum security prison, the terminally ill Jack Hall faces his final days with the assistance of hospice care provided by workers drawn from the prison population. “Oh my God! I was actually at Irvine, California, because I was at the film festival there. That morning I put on […]

Mr Hublot

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directed by Laurent Witz/ Mr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet’s arrival turns his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion. “One of the challenges of the film was that it was an artistic project but at […]