Portrait Of Absence
Through a window we see, as she did, a late father's journey into street circumstances. An intimate story of how it is to grow up surrounded by silence in a unique city with migrant form.
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Through a window we see, as she did, a late father's journey into street circumstances. An intimate story of how it is to grow up surrounded by silence in a unique city with migrant form.
What does an actor leave behind? That is the question that Alla Demidova asks herself, the audience, the eternity. She went and lived through the tragedies by Shakespeare, Electra, Phaedra, Medea. Where can one go hencef
A sexual assault allegation at a university forces those involved and the audience to confront how quickly assumptions and appearances can distort our understanding of the truth.
A documentary study of the eye and its functions. A compilation of images from various places gives the function of the eye new meanings. It is a tool for instilling fear, the soldier uses it to find his target, and look
A history of Lebanon’s Shiites, based on personal writings and memoirs. The film retraces the twelfth sect’s journey through Jabal Amel, the Bekaa Valley, Mount Lebanon and Beirut, while while exploring the major events
Noiy, a deaf boy struggling to survive on his own in Luang Prabang, takes refuge in a small school where he learns with other deaf children — and befriends Jane, whose parents do not want her to socialize with the deaf c
After his daughters accidentally bleach his hair, before another stressful family dinner, Meir decides to escape. The middle-aged, suburban history teacher unexpectedly finds what he needed when a chance encounter with h
An inside look at Satanism from its origins to its victims. Shot on location in Richmond, Virginia, to San Francisco, California, this program will enlighten and inform. By becoming aware, you will be able to spot the da
Francisco Santos embarks on a journey of remembrance through the figures of his four grandparents. In an archaeological quest through objects and voices that hold the traces of another time, Francisco grapples with the g
A wonderfully entertaining series of interviews with Pollack, Newman, Field and Luedtke about the film, its development, its themes and the experience of making it.
Filmed during a 12-day workshop in the Amazon rainforest of Peru under the mentorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, La presencia de lo ausente is intended to be a farewell letter, but on its journey it becomes an exercis
From Typhoon Coming On
Absence Stronger Than Presence is the first in a series of short documentary or “genius films”, entitled They Were The Future. An expressionistic biography of inventor Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid process, explor
"In 1991, I traveled from Buenos Aires to Germany to study film. Seven years later, I wanted to make this film: Images Of The Absence. The film tells the story of a family that never became one. My family. Images of the
At seventeen, Ukrainian pianist Khrystyna has already fled war twice: first from Crimea, and then from Irpin as Russia’s invasion advanced. With her brother still in Ukraine under martial law, she turns to music to find
The film is based on the impression after reading "la maladie de la mort" by Marguerite Duras, and added to, with other text, pictures and allegories. Through these movies I try to symbolically express the relationship (
Serani (20) lives among a land that cultivates silence and patience, where time never truly moves forward, it only loops, repeating events that keep knocking in different faces. When truth is seen as a disturbance, and s
The film deals with the current and urgent Syrian issue, through the story of a journalist and a doctor, who belong to two different backgrounds in the city of Homs. The dialectic of their relationship begins through a k
A film about a man who is trying to find the landscapes of his youth. A journey which begins in the structural environments of civilization and ends in the dynamic and sometimes treacherous environments of nature.