FIDMarseille Spotlight

J
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J
Bosnia, Herzegovina, Italy / 2018 / 44 minutes / NR / dir. Gaetano Liberti
  • 2 months ago
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
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Long Distance
Israel / 2015 / 15 minutes / NR / dir. Yotam Ben-David
  • 12 months ago
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)
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Remains (Hisha’arut)
Israel / 2013 / 32 minutes / MA / dir. Yotam Ben-David
  • 12 months ago
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

Casus Belli
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Casus Belli
Greece / 2010 / 11 minutes / NR / dir. Yorgos Zois
  • 3 weeks ago
All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, ...
Chebet
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Chebet
Kenya, US / 2016 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Tony Koros
  • 2 months ago
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
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The Migrating Image
Denmark / 2018 / 28 minutes / NR / dir. Stefan Kruse
  • 3 months ago
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
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Blue
France, Thailand / 2018 / 12 minutes / NR / dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • 3 months ago
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
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Hiwa
Greece / 2017 / 11 minutes / NR / dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
  • 4 months ago
In Jay’s dream, Athens’ sun is so weak, you can look straight at it, without getting blind.
The Rivers Of Babylon
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The Rivers Of Babylon
China / 2019 / 25 minutes / NR / dir. Yan Zhou
  • 4 months ago
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 ...
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Locarno Channel

Features

Thirty Souls
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Thirty Souls
Spain / 2018 / 80 minutes / NR
dir. Diana Toucedo
Alba is twelve years old and wants to discover the mysterious, fascinating and unknown reality of death. With her best friend Samuel, she enters abandoned houses, travels through forgotten villages and explores...
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Interruption
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Interruption
Greece, France, Croatia / 2015 / 110 minutes / NR
dir. Yorgos Zois
A post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out....
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Barrage
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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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Visions du Reel Channel

Agencia Highlights

Coup De Grâce
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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)
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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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Bunker
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Bunker
Portugal / 2015 / 30 minutes / NR
dir. Sandro Aguilar
A young girl spending time with her parents (a swinger couple) in a camping site meets an emotionally unstable recruit and becomes fascinated by his special powers. He falls in love with her, but he soon finds ...
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Retrospectives