Spotless tells the story of 15-year old Ruby, who lives with her mother and her younger sister. Her mother works overtime to make ends meet and Ruby feels responsible for her sister. When Ruby realizes she is having her period, she notices they are out of period products. She doesn’t want to bother her mother with asking for them, because she is aware of their money problems. To make sure she doesn’t trouble anyone with her problem, she tries to solve it herself.Read More »
Synopsis:The Oscar for Glass was really the result of a film commission. I was given a commission to make an half hour film, in black and white about the glass making process. (“Over glas gesproken”, a simple, tradtitional but beautiful documentary.We came across a machine,and it was really clever, like the one with little grips that picked up a bottle and set it gently down elsewhere. Back again, another one, and that went wrong. That was funny to see, all of a sudden it was a stupid machine but for the sake of the factory I couldn’t show stupid machines. It couldn’t stay in. So I decided to make a film in colour for myself. I didn’t want any commentary in it and only jazz music played by Pim Jacobs. And that’s how it ended up.Read More »
Nederlands Film Festival wrote:
Four difficult teenagers come into conflict with their bungling parents. The battle escalates when the mother tries to seduce her daughter’s tennis teacher and the children turn the villa into a heavily armed fortress. A classic theme, the struggle between parents and children, but in this black comedy it gets completely out of hand, in an unusual and bold way, while the parents’ authority is completely undermined and they eventually come off worst.Read More »
Prolific Surinamese/Dutch director of experimental films, Pim de la Parra, has crafted an improvisational satire on the process of making experimental films, and it is particularly aimed at the Dutch avant-garde. The story puts a crew of unpaid actors and actresses together while they attempt to shoot a film in very few days with practically no budget and no script. Oddly, that is exactly the situation they were actually in. While the director’s earlier uses of this formula met with some critical success, this one was received with considerably less enthusiasm.Read More »
A slow-burning psycological drama that needs the right space and time to create an intimate relationship with the viewer and, fortunately, it delivers… ~Cineuropa
Every year, 33-year-old photographer Roos (Rifka Lodeizen) visits her mother, Louise (Elsie de Brauw), and her teenage half-brother, Bengt (Marcus Hanssen), in Norway. During this particular visit Roos is more troubled than ever…Read More »
A parachute jump is performed by an artist and his girlfriend at the opening of an exhibition in the artist’s studio. An art dealer and a number of friends are invited to the event.Read More »
A documentary about the people who visit a cemetery, and a testament to the saying, life is short, art is long. Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some – such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin – are worshiped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer.Read More »
Synopsis:
Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country and has also the largest Muslim population. For 12 years, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich has followed an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta. Just as in his previous two multiple award-winning documentaries THE EYE OF THE DAY and SHAPE OF THE MOON, in POSITION AMONG THE STARS, he continues to show us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia. His intimate access to the Indonesian Sjamsuddin family provides viewers a microcosm depicting the most important issues of life in Indonesia today: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling addiction, the generation gap, and the growing difference between poor and rich.Read More »
A humorous portrait of a young man with a working class background who turns into an anarchist punk. Over the years, however, he changes into a genuine bourgeois with conservative opinions. Anarchy is no more.Read More »