There Is A River

1980 German Super 8 short work.

A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren’s life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his vantage point over 40 years later at the age of 90.

The sinking of the oil tanker "Olympic Bravery". The problem of regulation is posed.

Shot in film and hand processed by the director for over 20 years, Lucefece mixes personal, political and mythical views on reality exorcizing old ghosts. Stories from the director's childhood, together with conversations with his father, that fought in the colonial war in Africa and later was arrested, prepare the scenario for a profound reflexion on today's world. The film spirals like a snake travelling through time, an eternal recurrence, mixing documentary with film essay and autobiographical tones.

Sylvain is a farmer. His fields, in line with the glysophated trend, surround the small island of greenery where my old but valiant mother has lived for decades. Two visions of agriculture, landscape and the world unfold in reality and in music.

The geologist Yurtov goes to Siberia, where three years ago the unsuccessful search for oil was stopped. He hires a well-known in professional circles driller Vinnichek from Bashkortostan, negotiates with local lumberjacks, and begins to build a camp, dreaming of chill to begin searches, the meaning of which no one believes, except the young motorist Genka

A middle-aged yakuza escapes from Tokyo after commiting a crime. He meeets a young right-wing extremist. Together they help a girl who's looking for a river bank full of canola flowers that her mother had a strong memory of. The story is about how they find the place while escaping from pursuers. Self-produced by Zeze and shot on 16mm film when he was a student at Kyoto University.

A group of filmmakers arrives in Santiago de Chuco, a town in the Peruvian highlands where the poet César Vallejo was born. With the excuse of a casting, the filmmakers appropriate the theater and the inhabitants of the place arrive, revealing little by little some lives embraced by the aura of the poet, who died in Paris seventy years ago. All of them, inhabitants and filmmakers, are confused between verses, stories and poetry. Fantasy emerges and characters like the blind Santiago-who rings the bells always warning something-; or the young musician Elder - whose desires loom like a cornucopia-trace a liminal path between fiction and reality.

A group of young people are attacked by a tragedy from a video that a young man borrowed from a rental video shop. The horrific scenes from the video become a reality for the young man and his friends. The elite staff of director Shunji Iwai have gathered to create an entirely new psycho-horror movie that is finally born here.

A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent undercover to a big Western European company.

A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The Poor Poet" from the Neue Nationalgalerie and his reception in commentaries and reactions from the press.

Straight to video horror/comedy directed by Minoru Kawasaki

Seo Joon Hee, a pretty photographer, and her professor and novelist husband Jung Min Suk, appeared to be a perfect couple whom everyone envied. However, Min Suk was discovered murdered shortly after the morning news and Joon Hee immediately becomes the police's prime suspect. She only has fragments of memory about the day's events, and eventually turns to her longtime friend Yoon Jae Hoon for help.

Drawing on a poem by the thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi (from which the title is also taken), Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, there is a Garden. I Will Meet You There (2023) is the account of a healing process and a meditation on human suffering. Combining found footage, documentation from the artist’s own travels, and animations of the mythological centaur Chiron (renowned as a healer and prophet), Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong… asks how spiritual practice can help us to move beyond individual subjectivity to perceive life and death from a cosmic perspective.

Three friend discuss about death and what is means to them on their way to a funeral.

is there something in the movies that is better than my love?

Upon returning to his childhood home, a man is struck by memories and visions about the mysterious disappearance of his mother.

Time, the incessant rotation of everything on itself and around others. When our orbits, at times, get aligned, we build memory, we gain duration. Morhed images, animated abstract textures and Natasha Heidsieck Mak's text/voice compose the flow of the video It It brings into light the mutual - conflictual relationship between content and interface images

Directed by Adria Lang

Painter and high camp chanteuse Juwelia presents a love letter to life in Berlin since 1985.