Films
- Boulevard's End, 15'
Boulevard's End
Production: Germany 2014Los Angeles, Venice Beach. At the very end of Washington Boulevard, where the streets of the city meet the ocean, Venice Pier begins. A simple, raw, concrete pier stands against the storms of the Pacific Ocean. It creates a space of tranquility and equilibrium. Different people come here to stroll, to fish, to clear their minds. The film lets us see them from up close: the wealthy citizens and the immigrants. Their voices take us on a journey through people's stories.
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- Gli immacolati, 13'
Gli immacolati / The immaculates
Production: Italy, 2013One day in a certain quiet town, where everyone knows everybody, a certain young man returned home – as he would every night. He parked his car. He saw his sister outside the house and understood that something bad had happened. The sixteen-year-old said she had been brutally raped by two young Romanies. The brother tried to find the perpetrators, but they vanished into thin air. The neighbours organised a solidarity march with the raped girl. As many as four hundred people came. The participants made their way towards the ruined farm, where local Romanis lived. The teenage girl is at the police station. Questioned, she suddenly says something completely different than what she had confessed to her brother. Events snowball. The documentary was produced with the use of 3D animation.
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- La Fièvre, 40'
La Fièvre / A Spell of Fever
Production France 2014A feverish night in Morocco, year 2011. A child feels the presence of a spirit: it is a woman who came from the sea, returned after a long exile. The cause of her exile was political. This film is a quiet tale: a bodiless voice and visions entangle in the darkness of the night and the fever. The child of contemporary times and the political refugee come back home, they become one, they roam through strange, abandoned buildings, in search of a lost home and childhood. A voice of a man returns from the past to protect the woman and revive her lost memories. The history of decolonisation, a forgotten fight, appear and disappear in feverish hallucinations. And then a new fight, the Arab Spring in Morocco, floods the future.
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- One Thousand and One Teardrops, 17'
One Thousand and One Teardrops
Production: UK 2014On her first day at school, little Louly has to face a problem: what should she wear? A disgusting school uniform with a scarf, or whatever she fancies? The magical tear-carafe helps her choose, by telling the story of how Iranian women have been trying to answer the very same question for 200 years. The whimsical animation softens the severity of this question.
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- Zugperlen, 14'
Zugperlen / Train of Pearls
Production: Germany 2013Anna, Danuta, and Leokadia are strong women unafraid of cleaning up a huge garage, being away from home, or definitely leaving an irresponsible partner. On a train rolling slowly through the countrysides of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg, the three women share their experiences of working and living abroad, their views on partnership and family. From overworked emigrants they transform into elegant ladies drinking sparkling wine. Behind them: the tough months of work, before them: meeting with their loved ones, often far from idyllic. Right now they are only for themselves: Anna, Danuta, and Leokadia in the trans-territorial bubble of a train, between work and home.
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