Submission
Chinese director Wang Bing confronts us with survivors of Chinese labor camps in which suspect “extreme rightists” were imprisoned by Mao’s regime and left to die. An eight-hour monumental work praised by critics at Cannes. Screened in two parts.
When Chantal Akerman was invited to participate in a series on filmmakers portrayed by other filmmakers, all the directors she chose had already been picked by others. Jokingly she suggested herself as a subject and it was accepted. This is the result.
In 1977, Chantal Akerman returns to New York. Urban scenes are combined with the reading of letters from her mother that gradually reveal Akerman’s need to detach herself from her roots while raising questions about the physical meaning of “home.”
In late 1970s Paris, Anne, a gay porn producer, sets out to make her most ambitious film, but when the lead actor is murdered, her life takes an overwhelming turn. A campy slasher exploring the dark sides of passion.
In her 1993 documentary, Chantal Akerman travels through post-Cold War Eastern Europe. From East Germany to Russia—life is portrayed through prolonged camera movements and a fascinating sequence of gazes.
After years of revelry, sixty-eight-year old Nojet returns to Stockholm where she’s inherited an apartment building. Discovering that black-market crooks have taken over the seventh floor, she wages war against them.
Konoko wakes up on a beach with an insect stuck to her head and sets off to find a barber who will remove it. What appears to be a quiet town turns into a surreal fantasy. A bewildering Japanese comedy where Kafka meets Kaurismaki not too far from Kyoto.
Jacques, a French writer with AIDS, falls in love with young Arthur: this is Jacques’s last love and Arthur’s first. Christophe Honoré’s new film is an exciting and touching work featuring outstanding lead performances.
Celebrated director Chantal Akerman, who died in late 2015, creates a painfully poignant documentary of the final months in her mother’s life and bares the profound and complex mother-daughter relationship.
Marcello runs a dog boarding facility, but another job leads him to a dangerous relationship with a violent former boxer. Matteo Garrone’s (Gomorra) new film is about an eternal victim who wants to change his fate. Best Actor Award at Cannes.
Miguel travels to Cape Verde in search of the father he never knew. This quest turns into a bizarre odyssey. Questions of identity and belonging are set against the magnificent landscapes of this African archipelago of volcanic islands.
A surreal film combining historical events and the story of twins separated at birth. Twenty years later, they meet on the Orient Express: one, a wealthy woman; the other, an anarchist. A restored copy of the Caméra d'Or winner, Cannes, 1989.
In 1982, Argentina and Britain fought over the Falkland Islands. 1000 soldiers were killed. Thirty-five years later, Lola Arias brings six veterans, three from each side, together in an attempt to recreate their experiences on film.
Yao visits his disabled parents in the village where he was born to celebrate the New Year. Had things been different, he might have announced his homosexuality. A delicate documentary about the struggle between identity and tradition.
An isolated tribe from Amazonia has been encroached by modernity since 1969. In the midst of this new world, an ex-shaman who was forced into Christianity struggles to cure the suffering people of his village, and faces the wrath of the forest spirits, who are upset he has abandoned them.
When all the dogs in a Japanese city are banished, Atari sets out to find his pet, an odyssey that will determine the fate of the entire region. Cinema master Wes Anderson’s entrancing animated film opened the most recent Berlinale.
1945, Indochina. French soldier Robert Tassen survives a massacre where his brother is killed. But his plans for revenge are swayed when he meets a local girl. Guillaume Nicloux’s new film, starring Gaspard Ulliel and Gérard Depardieu.
With her fiancé on the battlefront, Veronika must go on with her routine and wait for a sign of life as WWII rages on. A digitally-restored print of Mikhail Kalatozov’s Soviet masterpiece, winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or in 1958.
In 2005, Chantal Akerman arrived in Tel Aviv with her camera. For a month, she films neighboring windows from her apartment, and reads excerpts aloud from her journal including notes on Judaism, film, and her family.
Lazzaro is a laborer on the Marchesa de Luna’s tobacco plantation. When her son Tancredi visits the fields, he is captivated by Lazzaro’s sincerity and kindness. Alice Rohrwacher’s (The Wonders) new, critically-acclaimed film.
Chantal Akerman’s classic portrays a housewife who struggles to maintain the fragile tapestry of her life in face of existential pressures. A restored print of “the first masterpiece in the feminist history of film” (Le Monde).
