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A nail-biting crime drama featuring a captivating performance by Toni Servillo (Consequences of Love, Il Divo). Servillo plays chef, Rosario, an Italian restaurant owner just turned fifty who has lived in Germany for the last twelve years with his wife Renate and their young son. But one day in February everything changes. A sudden visit [...]
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An innovative 16mm workshop run by Richard and Diana of Australia’s Nanolab! Usually, reversal cine film is developed as a negative and then converted to a positive image through a series of chemical baths, but it is possible to intervene by hand with a brush, thereby limiting their effect to particular areas of the film [...]
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Three live expanded cinema performances, combining cine-sculptures and interactions, embodied beams and alchemical projections. In Face for an Other, obsessions with horror manifest as phantasmagoric projections onto the filmmaker’s own body in a bizarre accumulation of unreality. In Super Grotesquerie, images and sounds contact printed from 16mm science educational films and Super8 horror and sci-fi [...]
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Awake My Soul explores the history, music, and traditions of Sacred Harp singing; a haunting, powerful form of American spiritual music that has its roots in the deep South. Sung almost exclusively in large groups, Sacred Harp emphasises participation and community, singing together rousing songs of beauty and sorrow, of life and death; songs that [...]
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An extraordinary documentary profiling three very different characters all of whom claim to be the second coming of Christ, each part of a contrasting fringe community of disciples. British ex-secret service agent David Shayler underwent a spiritual awakening after release from prison and now lives in a squatting community rejecting capitalist values. INRI Cristo is [...]
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Innovatively blending documentary and fiction and bending generic expectations at every turn, Nicolás Pereda has constructed a startlingly original feature with Summer of Goliath. It is summer in Huilotepec, a rural community in the Mexican countryside, where a placid atmosphere belies the intrigues stirring among the townspeople. Teresa is convinced that her husband has left [...]
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No self-respecting ‘greatest movies of all time’ list could leave out Alfred Hitchcock’s famous thriller, always worth revisiting on the big screen. Psycho is famous for many reasons; its bold re-invention of thriller narrative conventions, the perfection of Hitchcock’s nerve-wrenching suspense, Bernard Herrmann’s dissonant score, the creepy performance by Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the [...]
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Jan Zabeil’s highly original and atmospheric debut feature is an otherworldly survival tale exploring divergent European and African sensibilities. A young German actor is travelling in an unnamed African country. He meets an old fisherman near a river, who takes him deep into the wilderness in his wooden boat. He wakes up to find his [...]
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Toomelah is a tough and uncompromising portrait of a remote Aboriginal community featuring non-professional actors and a mesmerising central performance by 10-year-old Daniel Conners. Daniel yearns to be a gangster like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, the main dealer in town, Daniel is [...]
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In a fascinating, cryptic psychological drama, Mattias Sandström assembles a probing meditation on grief, intimacy and identity. Young Swede Jesper holidays alone in the Canary Islands, surfing, clubbing and drinking at the bar, clearly preoccupied with some emotional burden. When he fixates on the hotel housekeeper Maite it becomes clear she strongly resembles someone from [...]
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