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Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue

In 1959, expatriate American writer Paul Bowles published Their Heads Are Green, Their Hands are Blue, a collection of travel essays largely drawn from a three-year journey through Morocco to meet the country’s tribes and record their music. Fifty years later, directors Karim Debbagh and Jay Bulgur retrace his steps, capturing many of the same pieces of music – which are handed down from one generation to the next – on film. A mysterious soundscape of musical rituals, dealing with fertility, birth, circumcision, grief, coming of age, marriage, divorce, life, death and art, it is both a historical record and, thanks to the elevating nature of the music, food for the soul.

Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue

NR 2021
Farmer, A Way of Life

Farmer a way of life, crossed portraits of farmers, living in different European countries, different backgrounds and environments. However they stories vary greatly, they are bond together by their close, intimate connection to the nature, animals and landscape they are taking care of. The movie is trying to show mystery of farming and the harmony of the farming way of life between the various components of the farm and the outside world. The images call for the urgent changes in our food system, to make it sustainable, environmentally sound and calls for more autonomous life for farmers who create a living environment responding to the great challenges of our time.

Farmer, A Way of Life

NR 2021
Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in a punctual dissertation around the phenomenon of the nostalgic feeling, discoursing on a late capitalistic landscape of social emotions, which are of yore, yet coloured of the postmodern tint of pixelated neo-noir, a socio-philosophical flâneur’s trip in critical theory escorted by the spirits of French post-structuralists. For a Sociology of Nostalgia revisited.

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

10.0 2021
Live Your Fairy Tale

A short film about the magic of kindness, empathy and the triumph of the human spirit. It is also about a twelve-year-old girl who resides in a slum in India, she is single-handedly destroying patriarchy and enabling change as she paves the way for equality and economic freedom in her family. She is also enabling experiences for herself and for the children in her slum community. When change transpires at the grass-root level it paves way for miracles. It is a true documentation of the day a group of Mumbai children who live in a slum embark on an adventure. The story is a metaphor for hope, manifestation and the power of dreams in ‘New India,’ and a ‘New World’. A more empathic world is possible if all of our work together in manifesting its destiny selflessly with passion and integrity.

Live Your Fairy Tale

NR 2021
Kopf Faust Fahne – Perspektiven auf das Thälmanndenkmal

For technical reasons – too massive! – this 50-ton bronze colossus was not demolished in 1993. Today it is listed as a historical monument, along with the associated housing estate. A relic from the old days: Today, the raised fist of the former German Communist Party leader and erstwhile GDR hero Ernst Thälmann in the Prenzlauer Berg park defies the collective forgetting of a not-so-long-ago past instead of heralding the victory of communism.

Kopf Faust Fahne – Perspektiven auf das Thälmanndenkmal

NR 2021
State of Emergency

In Israel, one learns at a young age of the country’s constant “state of emergency”. The education system in collaboration with the “Homefront Command Office” are dedicated to inserting that notion into the public’s mind. The film follows a class of fifth-graders in their mandatory course on “Home-Command Education” while at the same time follows the adult world, where through an on-going series of drills and simulations they prepare for the next war to come.

State of Emergency

NR 2021
WE ARE: A Visual Mission Statement from Jon Batiste

A musical short film blending editorial moments with vulnerable interviews, "WE ARE" peeks behind the curtain at pianist, band leader, philosopher, and activist Jon Batiste's highly anticipated album, WE ARE, as he walks the audience through four themes: Lineage, Authenticity, Excellence, and Evolution. Jon has recently won a Golden Globe and BAFTA award for his work in scoring Pixar's "Soul," and has also been nominated for Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy awards.

WE ARE: A Visual Mission Statement from Jon Batiste

NR 2021