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An unsettling look at a group of young people that seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight, while playing and getting high. Like dancing on the brink of an abyss that stares defiantly at you. A...

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When Tamara encounters Syzmon, she thinks it is true love. But things turn out to be more complicated than planned and even more so when religion interferes with their relationship. Driven by the...

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What is daily life like for those  who are growing up in the outskirts? How is the future being considered? With a sharp sense of observation,  Arantxa Hernández Barthe 
 sketches  the...

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Astronauts set foot  on the red earth of the Oman desert before the unbelieving eyes of the Bedouin. Two high school girls build castles in the air. A young boy trains to jump as far as possible....

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Games of “socialist” Monopoly were played in the Soviet Union: for the Hungarian version, called “Manage your money wisely”, the first to furnish an apartment would win the game. Four players meet...

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A Japanese man called Sushi sets off travelling in a camper that is the same age as him, in southern Portugal. He is looking for a legendary spring that could cure his broken heart. On the road, the...

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Somewhere on the coast of Cuba, three brothers and sisters spend the day by the sea. Laura Gabay observes them as well as the world they are constructing for themselves in the solitude of the...

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A kaleidoscopic vision of a mythical and contested place where tourists, mystics, pilgrims in search of Salvation or even entrepreneurs busy building luxury hotels rub shoulders. While the Dead Sea...

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Domenico is a young shepherd. He walks around with his flock and secretly harbors the dream of obtaining his driver's license. But he lives far away from the first village. His daily chores test his...

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The bedroom—the space in which one comes back to one's intimacy, sleep and also perhaps disappointments—serves as a setting to compose the filmmaker's fragmented portrait. A woman seeks to understand...

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Pacific is the name of the building where the director lives, on the 18th floor. Also known as “the suicide tower”, it is a typical example of collective housing. In a subtle interplay between the...

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A man releases a huge balloon in the dark night… In the south of France, two men lead us  on a strange treasure hunt  through crisscrossing roads, armed with GPSes and maps . An...

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Mixing images of contemporary Romania, archive films and the fascinating files of the Romanian secret services compiled during the Cold War, Sophie Dascal draws a mixed portrait of her mysterious...