“Cinema devoured me” said Lyudmila Kusakova, one of the first women art directors at “Mosfilm”. In her hands the panoply of items found at municipal dumps mutated into magical film sets which became a part the golden fund of our cinema. in her work she enjoyed the support of her husband and mentor mikhail kartashov. he helped lyudmila to find beauty in everyday articles and be ahead of time with her ideas. but dissimilar world views inevitably told on their marriage. can love withstand the tribulations in the family of two creative people for whom art and cinema became the meaning of life?
The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), The History of the Civil War (1921), Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
Twelve years after the effervescent I Think I Love You, the 107 Fauns return to making (being) cinema. Artificial Disintelligence accompanies the guardians of indie from La Plata in the investigation, between pataphysics and the detectivesque, of a mysterious event captured in one of their shows.
Rock band Don Cornelio y la Zona burst onto the music scene at the end of the ‘80s, delivering a mythical album and the best of rock poets, who is now already a legend, Palo Pandolfo.
After 140 years, there are alternatives to an asylum. Leaving Romero closely follows the experience of deinstitutionalization, focusing on the lives of the users and those who are the driving force of this process: the young people who make up the Movement for Deinstitutionalization in Romero.
Ita's voice tells anecdotes of her life about close losses, which allows us to glimpse her fears and her relationship with oblivion, while she reflects on the similarities between decomposition, life and cinema.
Amid the social strife of 1970s Britain emerged NWOBHM, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. New bands from ordinary British towns and suburbs like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard; Saxon, and Girlschool changed the face of amplified music and created a musical and cultural revolution. This is the story of Heavy Metal Kingdom.
It's 2016. A decade-long 'exile' in mexico for assuming false identities in the us is ending for two mexican 'dreamers' who were stripped from everyone they loved and from everything they were. óscar ayala (35), a former milwaukee cop who posed as his late us citizen cousin, and rodolfo quiroz (36), a former migrant’s smuggler in texas aka antonio montana, dream of reuniting with their loved ones in the us, now that they have served their 10-year sentence banned from that country. but trump's victory in the us presidential elections turns their dream into a nightmare.
This is a story of the deputy commander of a reconnaissance platoon. His civilian father and son were killed in 2014 in the ukraine. he left everything behind – his good job, his friends – and went to war. now in 2023 he liberates artyomovsk, leading old men women and children from under the fire. he does not feel pain any more… only the memory of who he is and what he is… he is not taking revenge on anybody… he is merely heading home.
“Facing the Rook” is a film about the contemporary Iranian artist, Ali Akbar Sadeghi. It is a free interpretation of his dreams and poems. the story revolves around the artist's latest piece, an artwork with a clear violent expression that is different from his other pieces given the artist's past struggle with depression, the family is concerned about his emotional state and his sons decide to hire a team of psychoanalysts the process sparks an idea in their mind to make a film about their father.
As a young black man from Guinea, Amadou struggles to make a life for himself in Moscow. In search of the “european dream” and somewhere to call home, amadou leaves his girlfriend behind making an arduous escape into germany, only to discover life as difficult as before. will amadou find his home, or does his journey continue?
“Pipe Dreams” follows the story of my Chinese dad and grandpa’s journey in what it means to make sacrifices for your children. They are both currently working as a father-and-son duo for a plumbing business. With long and demanding days, the job has taken a toll on their bodies. However, the unexpected growing bond between them and their connection to their newfound home in New Mexico has made it worth it.