Many years have passed since the 1980 earthquake devastated Irpinia. Subsequent reconstruction profoundly changed the topography, leaving the ruins to bear witness to the tragedy like open-air museums. Walking among these stones, immersed in a dull silence for some time, one experiences the embarrassing sensation of being observed. Stones that seem to claim their own soul, and which now seem horrified by an unexpected visit...
"Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with oblique commentaries delivered by students and instructors. The socializing process of education is made visible in the architecture, surfaces and colours of the school, 'in the ambiguous quality of appearances so assiduously cultivated by institutions' (Grenier)." - Images Festival, 2005
The films in the PLO Media Unit were supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – and they went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a « road movie » from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues as to the whereabouts of the lost archive.
A film director holds auditions for the role of “The Dad” when his real-life father appears to read the part. Past and present intertwine seamlessly and roles reverse, until the secret their estrangement is revealed.
"My father died four years ago. Over a period of 16 years, he wrote me several letters that he never gave me and that I got when I went back to Colombia to bury him. I've kept the letters but have not been able to read any of them. So I asked Lorena to read them to me while I videotape her." - Juana Awad
A short video installation by the artist Bin Bai from 2004.
The Soul Hunter is a short animated film created from over 1,000 of Christine Rebet's drawings on watercolour paper and filmed in 35mm frame by frame. In her first work of film, the young French artist depicts a disturbing soul hunter battling against a kamikaze 'waterworks' boy.
The daily routine in the tailor shop is so turbulent that it is sometimes necessary to improvise, but fantasy and spontaneity are not always enough. When the tailor is alone, he lets his thoughts do the work. But what happens when love comes into play, and his thoughts can no longer be controlled?
A Swedish short.
In the late 1960s, photographer Takuma Nakahira published the legendary photography magazine Provoke with Daido Moriyama. With this edgy writings and photographs, Nakahira rejected preexisting photographic expression. In 1977, an alcohol-induced coma resulted in a permanent partial memory loss. In the following years, with gradual recovery, Nakahira started photographing stray cats, homeless, and thatched roofs in the neighborhood near his home in a monomaniac manner. This is documentary is a portrait of the Nakahira's daily life. Directed by photographer Takashi Homma.
Young students in Hebei province preparing to enter middle and high school are sent to a miltary training camp.
The film off the drugs scene! informs about the problems related to drugs in generaland about controlled heroine distribution in particular. It also aims to dismantle the fears and insecurities about this issue within our society. For drug addicts who are admitted to a heroine treatment programme, the polyclinic Zok12 (Zurich opiate consumption place), founded by the ARUD Zurich (Association for risk reduction in use of drugs), is a kind of life raft. there they can not only consume pure heroine under medical supervision and sterile conditions without any pressure or stress but also find counselling and treatment for mental and physical problems.
A young woman's life can be really difficult when her love is the head of the drug trade. So is Silvana.
Two men, one woman and a baby is the formula for this alternative family. Dafna, a straight single woman, teamed up to have a baby with Itamar, a gay lawyer, and Kai, his German partner. Tensions grow throughout the pregnancy, and eventually erupt after the child is born - causing confrontation and separation. For over two years the film follows the characters as this fascinating story unveils.
