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- DirectorAyumu WatanabeStarsMana AshidaHiiro IshibashiSeishû UragamiA young girl is drawn into a mystery involving sealife around the world, in which two mysterious boys are somehow involved.Carrying the light generated by the birth of a star while swirling with the strength of a perfect spiral, the song of the ocean celebrates life since its origins along with the memories left after every look and breath scattered in a breeze and brought together by the power of a storm… A feast for the senses on an outer journey towards within where the core palpitates in a multidimensional spectrum brighter than a diamond, that one that we carry inside.
- DirectorLois PatiñoStarsAmid KeomanyToumor XiongSimone MilavanhIn the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.
- DirectorMin Bahadur BhamStarsThinley LhamoSonam TopdenTenzing DalhaIn a Himalayan polyandrous village, pregnant PEMA faces scrutiny as her husband vanishes. With her monk brother-in-law, her de facto spouse, she seeks him in the wild, unraveling her own self-discovery along the journey
- DirectorLaurie AndersonStarsLaurie AndersonArchieJason BergMultimedia artist Laurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.Love, Death, Visual collage, Time, Impermanence, Dog, Heart, Joy, Sorrow, Mind, Human, Film Essay, Poetry, The power of language, Childhood, Music, Pain, Dreams, Experimentation, War, Consciousness, Cadence, Art, 42, Attachment.
- DirectorLois PatiñoStarsRubio de CamelleAna MarraCarmen MartínezIn a village where the sea and the moon are near, there was a monster, three witches, many ghosts and a shipwrecked man.Berlinale 2020 - Forum
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsCathryn HarrisonTherese GiehseAlexandra StewartTo escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.An allegoric feast for the subconscious is served on the dark side of a silver plate... On a bed of green nature, a series of deliciously cooked archetypical images are arranged and topped with a mythological thin sweet milk sauce. All finely wrapped with a leaf of hope, pressured by two strands that wind around each other on the twisted ladder of a magical dance of death and rebirth.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsFather BessarionDavid BlairWilliam S. BurroughsA man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television, causing him to lose all perception of space, time, and self in the deserts of the American West.Once you find a telephone in the middle of the desert in New Mexico, you know that we are not in Kansas anymore and time and space have been reduced to a bi-directional television in the middle of what once was a planet, that now the bees use for communicating with the dead of the future, in the city of the twins marked with the X that now appear as the eyes in the pyramid... but is this before or after death... whose death? If you can make sense out of this, then you are also invited to the sequel of the movie... The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES
- DirectorOz PerkinsStarsSophia LillisSamuel LeakeyAlice KrigeA long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.Gorgeous in all its color and shapes, as terrifying in its depth and twistings, the retelling of an ancient story as scary as the face in the mirror, as waking up to the power within you, as walking on the edge of a knife while the wind growls beneath your feet, and you know that you will only make it to the end, if your senses are open in a multi-sensory fashion so you can hear your intuition, offer your generosity, balance your wisdom and have enough courage to accept and embrace who you really are with its powers and responsibilities, then and only then you will be able to plant the seeds that were given to you and that now also have your taste.
- DirectorJan BalejStarsJirí LábusA feature-length narrative animated film from one of the directors of Fimfárum 2. Mysterious and extraordinary stories of loneliness. What all can happen during one night in one city? Do you know what happens when a person sews on somebody else's ear? Can you meet a genie in Zizkov who will make any wish imaginable come true? Do you think there are places where time stands still? Do you know what can disrupt an insect circus performance, what a local hunter's goal is, and what excites his neighbor? Can a carp and a tree become friends?"One Night in one city"... An exquisite extravaganza of dark and quirky poetic fantasy to redefine the limits of what’s possible. After going through the dreams of a tree anything is possible and the flame of inspiration grows as in a tree’s nightmare.
- DirectorOlivier SmoldersStarsFabrice RodriguezYves-Marina GnahouaPhilippe CorbisierIn a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown. Oscar is a conservator at the Natural Science Museum, and spends most of his days surrounded by bugs. When Oscar isn't tending to the tiny specimens that line his home and workplace, he can frequently be found reflecting on his childhood traumas in the psychiatrist's office. One day, Oscar returns home from work to find an African woman from the museum lying in his bed.Kafka and Lynch have a son, and as an entomologist, of course, he dreams of the lightness of a butterfly but is confronted with the weight of a dark childhood filled with post-colonialist guilt... Slowly and meticulously we follow him into the rabbit hole where he tries to conciliate these dreams and nightmares, creating a surreal maze decorated with insects and African totems, and the contrast between black and white, like in the zebra's skin... Quoting the director. "A story invented by the night, the story of an infernal paradise, a funeral procession for a secret mourning."
- DirectorEdgar PêraStarsDuarte Barrilaro RuasMiguel BorgesAna BustorffAre time and temperature related in anyway? or is time just an invention of capitalism? If you have some time, join Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, Edgar Pera and others to discuss different perspectives on time, how to travel in time or how does the future affect the present... Time flies!
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsHarvey KeitelMaia MorgensternErland JosephsonAn exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.A triad hides the shadows of a vision
a grail engraved with vanished gazes
and after its trace an odyssey, an elliptical journey
with the wind in his back and in his hand a mirror
reflecting shattered dreams, broken hopes
and I cry because I’m unable to love you...
It is life, humanity, it is memory, it is us,
running in despair to find the missing ingredient
the one that reveals the alchemy within
dancing with the fog among bodies on the floor
the result of an internal war reflected on the other - DirectorVeit HelmerStarsNino SoseliaMathilde IrrmannZuka PapuashviliTwo female cable car operators fall in love as pass each other in their gondolas.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsCho Jae-hyunSeo Yeong-juLee Na-raA father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.**** ** * *** *** ** ********* *****? ****** **********, **** ********* *********** ** * *** ******** **** ***** *** **********...
- DirectorEsteban SapirStarsAlejandro UrdapilletaValeria BertuccelliJulieta CardinaliThis near-silent black and white film from Argentina tells the story of a city that has lost its voice, stolen by Mr. TV, and the attempts of a small family to win the voice back. Similar in design to early German expressionist films.In a city without voices, this dystopian fairytale offers imagination and words as the weapons of choice for us to recover our dreams and our voices from those who want to see us walking like zombies and want to make us eat our own words.
- DirectorSiamak EtemadiStarsMelika ForoutanShahbaz NoshirSofia KokkaliThe search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsJessica LouthanderTatiana DelaunayAnders HellströmRoy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.Roy Anderson takes us by his hand to show us humanity in all its splendor and poetry and to open a perspective to the possibility to transcend life to become a tomato.
- DirectorKároly EsztergályosStarsÁgnes T. KatonaJános BánEdit FrajtAn ode to revolution and freedom in the shape of a greek tragedy, beautifully choreographed to the pace of the gorgeous Hungarian horses and the blood of the phoenix.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsOmero AntonuttiEva KotamanidouMihalis GiannatosA rebel leader calling himself Alexander the Great escapes from prison and captures some English tourists to hold as hostages. He returns to his village and finds there a commune in existence.Private property is… Power is…. After a long silence, morbid illusions as useful and meaningful in life as in dead. This is just another parabola written by the hands of a poet who from death caresses life with images of love and war.
- DirectorPeter BergmannStarsTerence McKennaAn audio-visual journey through the mind of Terence McKenna.An homage to Terence McKenna and his invaluable contribution as a galactic astronaut in the world of psychedelics. In this very humorous and rich documentary we accompany Terence on his journey through many cultures, times, spaces and other dimensions and share his views on various very enlightening topics as culture, arts, science, evolution, time, religion, plants, the big bang and love. His life and constant search, was a truly remarkable contribution to the future of humanity and the evolution of our species.
- DirectorJoe BegosStarsDora MadisonTru CollinsRhys WakefieldA brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.An intense and hallucinatory nightmare of blood to become immortal in every unconscious brush of a painting... Enough adrenaline and blood to feed wild vampires for weeks.
ONLY watch if you can deal with the stroboscopic anxiety of a constantly spinning reality that might not make much sense unless you are or have been a vampire and remember those first days. - DirectorEdgar PêraStarsMarina AlbuquerqueMarcos BarbosaVítor CorreiaThe story of a vampire who terrorized the inhabitants of a mountainous region.A theatrical gothic tale of a vampire hidden behind the curtains of a stunningly beautiful hypnotic dream in black and white.
- DirectorPeter BergmannStarsTerence McKennaAn experimental documentary about Terence McKenna's adventure into the Amazon basin and the ideas that sprang from those events, resulting in an eschatological theory of time and a lifetime spent contemplating the power and meaning of psychedelic substances.A re-telling of McKenna's True Hallucinations book, enriched with more stories around it, and spectacular hallucinatory psilocybin visuals and the usual Terence's humor and ideas from other dimensions on the path to enlightenment.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsTaavi EelmaaRavshana KurkovaTiina TauraiteA mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.A surreal collage in six acts depicts the feeling of living in hell, and an ode to our golden (c)age of consumerism, painted with blood in a black and white canvas that accentuates the contrast of the actions that pave the staircase to this collapsing zodiac.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsRain TolkTaavi EelmaaJuhan UlfsakA film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.The strong winds of autumn shake the core of the mother and she weeps making the soil wet, liberating the smell of grass from Fernando Pessoa's voice in waves of Der club Der gore to entertain the despair of a cold and morbid suburbian life.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWhat would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. A beautiful, peaceful sunset in Entre Rios is contrasted with the bustling streets in rainy Shanghai. People who live in a wasteland are connected to people dwelling next to a volcano. Landscapes whose splendor touches the soul are juxtaposed with the clamor of a vast city. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness. Kossakovsky's movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! - Long Live The Antipodes! What is happening on the point of the earth diametrically opposite to where we are now, what awaits us there? Fascinated by this question, Victor Kossakovsky conducted an experiment, and in the course of his unique project visited four coupled antipodes - in Argentina and China, Spain and New Zealand, Chile and Russia, Botswana and Hawaii. Thanks to a keen sense of the magic of his eight locations, Kossakovsky captures unforgettable images. He follows the menacing glow of a volcano's lava, contemplates the majestic flight of a condor, documents human attempts to rescue a stranded whale. A sunset in Argentina's Entre Rios is juxtaposed with rush hour in Shanghai. Tranquil silence and amber light contrast with noisy industriousness and metallic hues. The movie approaches its subject playfully, and Kossakovsky's deployment of the camera is innovative: the earth's surface bends right in front of our eyes, images upside down.A planet full of contrasts, a variety of tonalities of colors and voices gorgeously filmed with a unique angle and a non judgmental camera that allow the pleasure to remember the beauty of the place we call home. A document that can properly represent life on earth to be sent to outer space.
- DirectorRaúl RuizValeria SarmientoStarsRubén SotoconilClaudia PazLuis AlarcónThe story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality.Berlinale 2020 - Forum
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsLauri LagleJaanika ArumLaura Peterson-AardamThe story of a promising, young man with exciting career opportunities and looming marital bliss.Like a wild horse flying among dark clouds, a young couple struggles with their dreams and the asphyxiating environment that humanity has build as a society, all with a flowery soundtrack as a wallpaper.
- DirectorChristiane CegavskeA handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.A dark fairy tale in stop motion where gothic and pagan strangely unite to give life to every movement of these delicate dolls that inhabit the forest of the unconscious.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerA look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.Did you have to do something in order to survive? And if you had to, what would you be willing/able to do? An insidious camera goes into the mud to let us feel what survival in the city is, in different flavors depending on your culture of predilection.
- DirectorMatthew RankinStarsDan BeirneSarianne CormierCatherine St-LaurentDetermined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.Berlinale 2020 - Forum
- DirectorGeorgis GrigorakisStarsVangelis MourikisArgyris PandazarasSofia KokkaliA father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.Berlinale 2020 - Panorama
- DirectorMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsSergio PángaroAlberto LaisecaAndrés DupratA male nurse steals some of one of his patient's drawings and makes money with them.Behind the paintings hanging on the walls, a hidden witness emerges to contemplate the humorous voracity of the art market, the conscious act of giving meaning to art, and the pure, fluid and almost unconscious act of using a canvas as a mirror for the psyche.
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsSofia BuenaventuraJulián GiraldoKaren QuinteroOn a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.Edgy and claustrophobic, this tale of survival questions... What can we become when the power struggle knocks on the door and the survival instincts get triggered while animals witness every step we make.
- DirectorNader SaeivarStarsBakhtiyar PanjeeiSevil ShirgirHadi EftekharzadehIn an ordinary Iranian town, two mysterious strangers in a car begin to park daily at the same spot for hours. This unusual occurrence causes paranoia among the locals, who suspect them to be national security.Berlinale 2020 - Forum
- DirectorMohammad RasoulofStarsBaran RasoulofZhila ShahiMahtab ServatiThe four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.Berlinale 2020 - Golden Bear
- DirectorSébastien LaudenbachStarsAnaïs DemoustierJérémie ElkaïmPhilippe LaudenbachIn hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands. Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water, a gentle gardener, and the prince in his castle.Poetic simplicity in acuarela recreates the story of a wild girl and her pursue to live her dreams and grab them even without hands.
- DirectorGalder Gaztelu-UrrutiaStarsIvan MassaguéZorion EguileorAntonia San JuanA vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.Human flesh as a very gory metaphor to portrait the main actors and mechanics of a brutal social structure in many ways similar to capitalism... so take your book, your ideals and join Don Quixote on his quest to confront the administration and fight the mills in the name of sweet justice, a dream that seems forgotten once the banquet is served, and that is just half evil... 333
- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsFrançoise BrionJacques Doniol-ValcrozeGuido CelanoA sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.A maze of repeated images like dreamed memories of an obsessive, mysterious and lethal romance in Istanbul, reminiscent of Marienbad.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsWillem DafoeDounia SichovSimon McBurneyAn exploration into the language of dreams.Berlinale 2020 - Competition
- DirectorBenoît DelépineGustave KervernStarsBlanche GardinDenis PodalydèsCorinne MasieroThree social-media victims declare war on the tech giants.Berlinale 2020 - Silver Bear
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsEmily BeechamBen WhishawKerry FoxAlice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she takes one home as a gift for her teenage son and names it after him but soon starts fearing it.A new world is being created and nature is being altered genetically so we can have our feelings and emotions produced in a lab, so trust is no longer needed now that we all feel and act quite the same.
- DirectorMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsOscar MartínezDady BrievaAndrea FrigerioA winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.A dark comedy where art is explored as the representation of a culture, from the confrontation between a man and the small village where he was born.
- DirectorZal BatmanglijStarsChristopher DenhamNicole ViciusBrit MarlingTwo documentary filmmakers attempt to penetrate a cult who worships a woman who claims to be from the future.Thought provoking along the lines of reason and faith, this low budget sci-fi asks where do you stand when the light is to bright to be understood.