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DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Edipo Re is a highly personal screenplay adaption by Pasolini of the Greek drama by Sophocles. As his first colour feature, Edipo Re makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes, to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing.
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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TWO PART SCREENING:
1. INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR JULIE TAYMOR
2. OEDIPUS REX (1993)
An "Opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, based on Sophocles's tragedy, performed in the language of the audience, in this version in Japanese.
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Master Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini beautifully re-imagines Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy with Maria Callas in the title role. In this haunting tale, Medea sacrifices everything to win the heart of Jason, captain of the Argonauts, but when he spurns her love, Medea exacts a scorching revenge that destroys everyone in its path.
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY ALEKSANDR SOKUROV
In his spare, intense, lyrical ''Mother and Son,'' Sokurov immerses the viewer in an isolated landscape that resonates with pain and loneliness as a young man tends his dying mother. On the surface, little happens. In a small house in the countryside of Russia, a son cares for his sick, elderly mother as they prepare for her death...
directed by INGMAR BERGMAN
“God, why did you desert me?” With Winter Light, master craftsman Ingmar Bergman explores the search for redemption in a meaningless existence. In this stark depiction of spiritual crisis, small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson...
directed by JOLYNN MINNAAR
Unearthed, an independent South African feature documentary, investigates fracking in the United States – the technology’s place of origin – in order to understand what this new method of gas extraction could mean for the semi-arid Karoo...
HOSTED BY BRYCE ANDERSON
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DIRECTED BY INGMAR BERGMAN
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning...
HOSTED BY BRYCE ANDERSON
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DIRECTED BY PHILIP GRÖNING
In this contemplative documentary from filmmaker Philip Gröning, the Grande Chartreuse monastery opens its doors to the public for the first time since being founded by St. Bruno in 1084 to offer an intimate look at a lifestyle rarely experienced by those outside of the brotherhood.
HOSTED BY BRYCE ANDERSON
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DIRECTED BY XAVIER BEAUVOIS
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region.
directed by JENNA BASS
Shot using handheld camera and on a micro-budget, Bass’ film tells the story of two people who discover that their romantic relationships may be a part of a conspiracy to keep them in – or out – of love.
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HOSTED BY JULIA CAIN
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DIRECTED BY RICHARD FINN GREGORY
In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is, unbelievably, a 100- year-old community that speaks Afrikaans. After the destruction of the war against the British, these Boers sailed across the ocean to start a new life.
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HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY ALEKSANDR SOKUROV
Though Russian director Alexander Sokurov's feature Alexandra unfolds against the backdrop of military life, it constitutes a stark and deliberate chamber drama in lieu of a war picture. Alexandra Nikolaevna is an elderly woman with a grandson...
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY ALEXANDR SOKUROV
Sokurov finds an existential plot in Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary and it becomes the basis of his film Save and Protect (this title is a phrase from an Orthodox Christian prayer). In Switzerland he meets the heroine of his plan Cecile Zervoudaki, the French woman with an extraordinary face and rare profession — an ethnolinguist...
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY PANTELIS VOULGARIS
A young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the third-class voyagers. But along the way, she meets a young American photographer who is returning from the Middle East...
HOSTED BY BRYCE ANDERSON
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DIRECTED BY RICHARD FINN GREGORY
In a remote stretch of Patagonia, Argentina, there is, unbelievably, a 100- year-old community that speaks Afrikaans. After the destruction of the war against the British, these Boers sailed across the ocean to start a new life.
*SECOND SCREENING
DIRECTED BY GABRIEL AXEL
The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town.
DIRECTED BY KIRSTEN CARTHEW
Lia, 16, an inner city teen with an attitude, is sent to live with her grandmother in the unforgiving far north. Desperate for a better life, she steals a boat and sets out into the harsh arctic wilderness, where she meets Alfred, a caribou tracker...
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directed by WERNER HERZOG
The documentary centers on two young men in prison. Michael Perry is on Death Row in Huntsville, Texas, America's most productive assembly line for executions...
directed by RALF KIRSTEN
Käthe Kollwitz was 47 years old and already a well-established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteerd to join the German army in World War I—and was killed two weeks later. This tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever...
directed by MIROSLAV JANEK, PAVEL KOUTECKY
Begun in 1992 and stemming from a chain of historical events all wedded to the person of Václav Havel, director Pavel Koutecký set out to render a portrait of the first president of Czech Republic. He was given complete freedom to film as he saw it...
directed by MILOŠ FORMAN
With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)...
directed by MARC ROTHEMUND
Filmmaker Marc Rothemund utilizes long-buried historical records to reconstruct the last six days in the life of renowned German anti-Nazi non-violent student activist Sophie Scholl...
directed by BILLE AUGUST
Based on the novel Night Train to Lisbon (2004) by Pascal Mercier and written by Greg Latter and Ulrich Herrmann, the film is about a Swiss teacher who saves the life of a woman and then abandons his teaching career...
directed by IDRISSA OUÉDRAOGO
Living in a small West African village are the Boy Bila (Noufou Ouédraogo) and his girlfriend Nopoko (Roukietou Barry). The days are spent on the lush savannah where the blissful occupy themselves by fetching water for their parents...
The Battle of Love is an emotional love stry set in the years of the Nigerian civil war (1967 1970). It address the etnic tensions of the time, and tells the story off a Nigerian soldier from the eastern part of Nigeria, on the run from his military station in northern Nigeria just after the outbreak of genocidal hostilities there.
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