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Le champ d'Igor

Igor is 33 years old, he has been living for 5 years in a converted truck in his native Vosges. His ambition is to be self-sufficient thanks to his vegetable garden and the few bargains he makes at night in the garbage cans of DIY hypermarkets. Anticonsumerist, respectful of nature and of the people he lives with, Igor is a pure heart. Very attached to his freedom, he does not militate. But sometimes, he would like to share his existence with others, sometimes he thinks about the future...

Le champ d'Igor

NR 2021
Looking for Horses

"Looking for Horses" is a film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman, who lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war and retreated to a lake to live in solitude. The filmmaker, son of Bosnian parents, struggles to communicate as he lost his mother-tongue due to a heavy stutter. Despite their speech and hearing limitations, a bond develops between the young man and the veteran, as he shares his world of the lake: full of large catfish, wild horses, wide silences, and dangerous thunderstorms. Where for the fisherman the lake stands for a withdrawal from a fractured country, a land of war; for the filmmaker it precisely means the return to that broken place, the land of his parents. They look for ways to communicate, while the camera mediates their growing bond. Taking the shape of a gentle western, "Looking for Horses" is a poetic documentary on trauma, survival, and connection.

Looking for Horses

6.0 2021
Figure 1

'Figure I' uses a feminist perspective to frame and deconstruct patriarchal techniques of control. This film asks: how was a patriarchal gaze construct-ed, and how has it come to effect biological processes? How have specific tools (like Dürer's Grid) come to shape our technological present and possible futures? Are modern Western scientif-ic/mathematic/technological/medical structures rooted in extractive patriarchal philosophies? 'Figure 1' is composed of re-drawn illustrations of allegorical art historical paintings and etchings, alongside archival footage, Obstetric photography, and rotoscoped animation.

Figure 1

NR 2021
Borrowed White

The gynecologist Marta lives peacefully with her son Nathan in the run-down country house of the rich journalist and system critic Roland - until the poor migrant worker Valmir is called in as a handyman and brings forgotten secrets back to light. In this visually stunning chamber drama, which is also a socio-critical family thriller, author Karin Kaçi and director Sebastian Ko relentlessly expose the sins with which the privileges of prosperity are bought - and the price that must ultimately be paid for them.

Borrowed White

6.7 2021
Irving Undead

Henry Irving is dead. Join Irving’s restless spirit as he tells the story of how he transformed himself from a stuttering, spindly country boy into the most formidable actor of the nineteenth century. It is a story of a man who petrified London with his Gothic portrayals of mad monarchs, guilt-stricken murderers and the devil himself. A story of a man who could never escape his monsters – even in death. A filmed version of the live one-man stage play by James Swanton.

Irving Undead

2.0 2021
The 1001 Faces of Palmyra

Two thousand years ago, it was a flourishing city in the middle of what is now a Syrian desert. At the crossroads of trade routes, Palmyra attracted caravanners from Mesopotamia, India and China. In what remains of its ruins, rediscovered by Europeans in the 17th century, its numerous necropolises bear witness to a prosperous past. Carved in limestone in the first centuries of our era, the faces of the representatives - men, women and children - of its greatest families adorn the walls of its tombs. Since 2012, Danish archaeologist Rubina Raja has been leading a long-term project to find, document and retrace the family trees and daily life of these Palmyrenians.

The 1001 Faces of Palmyra

7.0 2021
Don't Touch Here

Adam Farkas is a 40 years old photographer, obsessed with the idea of creating something new, an erotic experimental movie, that will shock the public opinion. When he finds out that a model was murdered, arises in him a primordial sexual instinct that attracts him to the murderer. He will be obsessed with finding the killer, until all the demons inside and outside him will show up. He later meets a charming model Evan, and very soon he realizes Evan is hiding a big secret.

Don't Touch Here

NR 2021
Under The Sleeping Mountain

One summer, many years after his mother confided in him about her emotional difficulties with his father, a filmmaker questions his parents, curious about the state of their relationship. At first glance, their situation does not seem to have changed. Curious, he decides to inquire about it. Their activities and discussions both revive nostalgic and fearful emotions. He sees that his mother does not feel the same. From this moment that he realizes the magnitude of the subject and that some things are not accessible to him.

Under The Sleeping Mountain

NR 2021
Memory

There is a bewitched park in Austria where people hear voices, see strange things or disappear without a trace. According to ancient folklore, you can meet the devil in this forest at night. This is where four young filmmakers find themselves, as part of a reality show, ”Director’s Cut”. As they embark together on an excursion to an occult stronghold in the forest, they start to doubt their own perceptions, their shadows shrouding their desires, fuelling dark fantasies, amidst the poetry of disappearance.

Memory

NR 2021
Ama'ara - the Song of the Whales

One woman's journey to save - and love - the whales. Enter a world of transcendence in AMA'ARA – The SONG of the WHALES. Spiritual singer and healer Marina Trost follows her calling to cross oceans to save the whales and create a new, loving relationship between humans and these majestic beings. Through channeled music and mesmerizing cinematography, we feel Marina's passion and how she connects intuitively to the whales’ beauty and majesty. Spirituality, sacred song, and healing flow beyond time and space. In this cinematic meditation, we uncover song as a vehicle to our own transcendence. This film is a powerfully poetic love song for our troubled times. (ILLUMINATE Film Festival 2021)

Ama'ara - the Song of the Whales

NR 2021
Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life

At once tranquil and bracing, Tu Neill and Jim Speers’ film is a portrait of a seaside town and its vanishing way of life. Though it is now slowly emptying, Ayukawa was once a thriving coastal community, its success based on a practice rooted in tradition, custom, and ceremony: whaling. Through the voices of local elders, the film conveys how that form of hunting developed into the lifeblood of the town before cultural changes, international condemnation, and strict regulation brought it to the brink of non-existence.

Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life

NR 2021
Première année dehors, journal de bord

Three men were released from prison after serving sentences ranging from 2 to 30 years. The director captures their trajectory their first year out, in the form of a logbook. Norbert, Raphaël, Yemine confide in each other about the stages of this new life. With great delicacy, we observe how their projects come up against a social, emotional and sanitary reality and how they are transformed in the course of their experience outdoors. A film that explores the physical and psychic imprint of incarceration and the issues that arise upon release from prison. Can we learn to be free again?

Première année dehors, journal de bord

NR 2021