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Bosnia, Herzegovina, Italy / 2018 / 44 minutes / NR / dir. Gaetano Liberti
Solitude has a fragile rhythm; once it is disturbed, connections come loose, new ones are forged and inner maps need to be redrawn. A reclusive cartographer briefly engages in a dialogue wit...
Long Distance
Israel / 2015 / 15 minutes / NR / dir. Yotam Ben-David
A long walk through paths and roads, through the relationships and distances between people.
Two distant lovers, two homes falling apart and one forgotten birthday.
Remains (Hisha’arut)
Israel / 2013 / 32 minutes / MA / dir. Yotam Ben-David
Itamar and Thomas share a bed, walls, an apartment and electricity bills. Thomas commands, manages, and criticizes; Itamar is silent and listens. Between the apartment walls, frustration and...
Focus on Avant-Garde/sixpackfilm presents
Films by Peter Tscherkassky & Maria Lassnig & Lukas Marxt
Shorts
Chebet
Kenya, US / 2016 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Tony Koros
A pregnant woman in the Kenyan highlands decides to take drastic action when she finds her husband passed out in front of their house yet again.
The Migrating Image
Denmark / 2018 / 28 minutes / NR / dir. Stefan Kruse
By following a fictional group of refugees across Europe, the film questions the overproduction of images surrounding real-life tragedies and deaths. Each segment of the project takes its cu...
Blue
France, Thailand / 2018 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul and frequent collaborator Jenjira Pongpas Widner present a choreographed dance of scrolls and a portrait of feverish slumber.
A woman lies awake at n...
Hiwa
Greece / 2017 / 11 minutes / NR / dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
In Jay’s dream, Athens’ sun is so weak, you can look straight at it, without getting blind.
The Rivers Of Babylon
China / 2019 / 25 minutes / NR / dir. Yan Zhou
19-year-old Lily returns to her seaside hometown Beihai, a city neighboring Vietnam. The unexpected sudden arrival of a level-eight typhoon named “Mountain Spirit” delays her departure from ...
Gelem
Israel / 2014 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Alon Sahar
Three soldiers are following orders as they have to reconstruct a suicide of a now deceased soldier: Yosef the MP interrogates, Buzi the company commander testifies, and a young unseen soldi...
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Features
Barrage
Luxembourg, Belgium, France / 2017 / 109 minutes / NR
dir. Laura Schroeder
Outstanding performances by Isabelle Huppert, her real-life daughter Lolita Chammah, and Thémis Pauwels as grandmother, daughter and granddaughter illuminate how loss and abandonment can give way to a tentative...
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The Death Of The Master
Ecuador, Argentina / 2018 / 62 minutes / NR
dir. José María Avilés
An elderly farmer has become one with the land, the lemon trees and the livestock. But something has changed, nature is disturbed. Water doesn’t run off well, a calf dies for no reason and the wind keeps pickin...
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Agencia Highlights
Coup De Grâce
Portugal / 2017 / 25 minutes / NR
dir. Salomé Lamas
Leonor returns from a trip on a day where her dad wasn’t expecting her. In twenty-four hours they will live a crescendoing hallucinated reality, led by Francisco’s unsettling state of apparent normality.
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Cidade Pequena (Small Town)
Portugal / 2016 / 19 minutes / NR
dir. Diogo Costa Amarante
One day, the child Frederico learns from his teacher that bodies are made up of a head, trunk and limbs and that people die when their hearts stop. That night, he can’t sleep. He wakes his mother up several tim...
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