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Experimental short by Kentaro Saisho.

Six of Japan’s emerging design talents collaborate with six models with diverse personalities and bodies, some accompanied by wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs. The Quest: to push the limits of fashion as we know it.

A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane.

A portriat of the daily lives of Beatriz and Gilberto, a couple that has been together for over 40 years. A reflection about love and marriage. An intimate glimpse into the lives of two people who struggle to live in harmony.

A special Decoder allows people to have conversations with nature.

Lebanese filmmaker Dima El-Horr moved to Paris several years ago. Among the friends who stayed at home is the artist Sirvat Fazlian, whom she regularly visits in Beirut until the failed revolution of 2019, the COVID lockdown, the devastating port explosion and finally the dramatic economic crisis put a temporary end to their meetings. So the director decides to give her conversations with Siro a cinematic form.

Juan Siegman is an uninspired film director. He is writing a science fiction script with the help of Ian, an anthropomorphic robot. Siegman is overtaken by the technological revolution, and wonders if he is really ready for it.

Biographical portrait of the labor movement and left wing movement in Uruguay, "Conversations with Turiansky" combines two stories. The first portrays the son of immigrants, the engineer passionate about the mystery of electricity, the man in love, the movie buff. The other places the protagonist in his time: union struggles, the advance of authoritarianism, prison and the challenges of the present. In both are present the lucidity, commitment, discreet tenderness and humor of Wladimir Turiansky.

Portrait fragments and communication among people during festival breaks. The picture is largely out of focus and the film does not have the original sound. The conversations are muted, experienced only through short details and the atmosphere.

Quarantine film of conversations with a gorilla. In the old films, Gorilla was a way for screenwriters to bring a surprising twist to the film if no other solution was invented. In modern times and in the current situation, the gorilla is inside you. The seeker will find if he wants to.

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet. An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from the film Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists’ village at Mont Sainte-Victoire. —ntticc.or.jp

During a night in Cologne in 1976, Romy Schneider opens up like she’d never done before. An intimate portrait based on audio recordings of her interview with journalist Alice Schwarzer.

Simi is an insecure and inexperienced eighteen-year-old virgin. His first sexual encounter turns into a nightmare and he suddenly finds himself in the middle of rallies on social media. Although he thinks that this was just a tense situation, he must learn that only yes really means yes.

To have conversation with Mr. Mouse, daily life has to be selected and excluded. To disclose dirty and nasty things in society that is full of germs through twisted amateurish imagination. To reveal humane symptoms like romantic evilness, contempt and fear as pessimistic weakness and thoughts on death. These aim at Mr. Mouse in the form of excluded body movements, deconstructed sentences, irony and witticism. As I attained a victory from them, I decided to be a guardian of toilet myself.

Eternal twilight, passing trains, a man's hunched figure walking in the fog, a smiling girl, shadows and silence that are related to each other… Under the infernal sounds-noisy, creaking, howling-there are words that " rub against each other, giving rise to something shaky, almost nonexistent." In the center of the metropolis, people with the" Cain seal " look for the forest and the sea to get lost,and there they stay. And death looks for people to look at, and finds them there… In the film by Valentina Antonova and Dmitry Mamulia, the 82-year-old founder of Russian "metaphysical realism" Yuri Mamleev plays himself shortly before his own death and as if before our eyes is preparing to move to another world.

The questioning of Jewish heritage and identity via the portrait of a diversed family, across Belgium and the United States.

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.

The film is based on an interview in New York in 1993 between critic Solomon Volkov and poet Joseph Brodsky. Behind the scenes, the poet answers the questions of the journalist. The conversation, in the end, covers almost the entire life of Brodsky. We are faced with the dramatic story of a man who categorically refuses to dramatize it. The story of a poet who gained in full, but lost immeasurably more.