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Turkmenistan's Cultural Treasures

To outsiders, Turkmenistan is one of the world's least known countries. For the first time in ten years, a film crew has been free to visit spectacular excavation sites and follow international researchers into areas that have long been off-limits. Once considered the poorest part of the Soviet Union, oil and natural gas have brought new wealth to Turkmenistan today. A little known fact in the West is that 4,000 years ago, the country was home to one of the ancient world's centers of power. Although it flourished around the same time as the advanced civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Margiana empire was later largely forgotten. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the country has been slowly opening up to international researchers, and its astounding cultural heritage is coming to light.

Turkmenistan's Cultural Treasures

NR 2020
Ismaeell the Demon

A somewhat clumsy and simpleton policewoman comes into contact with an evil entity. The entity makes her dream of her heinous crimes before they are committed. Apparently bad dreams that will become more and more detailed and real until they turn into daytime visions. The entity hides itself in a cloak that takes possession of a person, transforming him into a murderer. Only at the end the twist, the policewoman will bravely face this entity's evil with a difficult choice to protect the one she loves.

Ismaeell the Demon

NR 2020
Two Forgotten Boxes

Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra, Cécilia Mangini was a photographer. Taking pictures was something she did all her life, alongside whatever else she was working on. In 1965 Mangini and Del Fra went to war-torn Vietnam to make a film they never finished. More than half a century later, she returned to these images, moving and still, some of which she found again by accident.

Two Forgotten Boxes

NR 2020
The Circle Has Moved

"The Circle Has Moved" is a short dance film made during COVID-19 isolation, directed and edited by Izaak Brandt. Dancers have been completely removed from a sense of community and identity during lockdown. This film aims to do two things: highlight this isolation whilst at the same time reinforcing the strength, diversity and unity of dancers worldwide. The film is brought together by a poem written and performed by Izaak Brandt, with an original score by Pete Brandt.

The Circle Has Moved

NR 2020