Visions du Reel 2019
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- DirectorHilal BaydarovStarsMaryam NaghiyevaHilal BaydarovVusal BaydarovImmobile in a home where the sands of time fall to the rhythm of the rural Azerbaijani sounds, a mother waits for her son. When he arrives, their conversations circle around existential questions and news from afar. Unrest cloaks the world outside. Mother and son grow closer, silence melts into words, and life springs between them. The son leaves, and winter settles in to the forever-outdated house in which temporalities blurs and past and present beat to the rhythm of the same clock.
- DirectorJannik SplidsboelStarsAli-Mae JohnstoneAshleigh JohnstoneAshleigh Akka JohnstoneThe Kimberley in West Australia is home to various Aboriginal communities, where today most is in transition causing limbo and distress. Some have given up; others choose to fight both past and present demons to bring a change for the better to their people. In 'Dreams from the Outback' best friends Gabriel and Peter try to keep the ancient cultural traditions alive, with almost no support from the rest of their community. Felicity struggles to keep her family together after years of drinking and neglect and teenagers Billy and Jordan are brothers who meet for the first time. The boys spend the days getting to know each other, exploring the outback and their culture.
- DirectorGreta StocklassováWhat if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna is built on the world's largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, which created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometres to the east. In doing so, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world? On the backdrop of a moving city, the citizens of the New Kiruna are fighting their own battles. We follow the teacher Timo, a local activist against the moving, the teenage Sami girl Maja who is discovering her family roots and cultural heritage as well as Abdalrahman, a teenage boy from Yemen, who came to the town as a refugee and slowly realizes that it takes more than just a paper to become a Swede. The seemingly very different characters are facing the same questions as the city is looking for its place. They are starting their personal search for identity, values and a greater future. Kiruna - A Brand New World is a portrait of a utopian and dystopian town as well as a hard-hitting reflection of today's society.
- DirectorRuken TekesA filmmaker's 21-day homage to capture the ethereal essence of her unique ancient homeland soon to be submerged by a dam, it is instinctively carried and driven by emotions, feelings and observations. It reveals the place's truths following its own unencumbered chronology. An invitation to a free-minded voyage into nature's cycle of birth-death-rebirth.
- DirectorChristian LabhartStarsMatthias KochMona PetriThomas SarbacherA film about how I deal with the painful fact that the world today is not how I imagined it would be 50 years ago. Images of today's world collide with fragmentary recollections, with poetic texts and with J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion. An essay film about the fragility of my existence in unbridled capitalism.
- DirectorPatrick BresnanIvete LucasStarsB.J. CrawfordJocabed MartinezNa'Kerria NelsonIn a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
- DirectorNicolas GrauxStarsPyawqdzei DzanrboLome ArmyovqByevpyawq DzanrboLaosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
- DirectorReetta HuhtanenStarsAatos FloresAmine Mohamed BennaaFlo CharlierThe district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is a familiar home. Here, they listen to spiders, discover black holes, and fight about what is going to steer a flying carpet. Together they search for the answers to life's big questions. But the brutality of the adult world makes itself known when terrorists detonate a bomb in the neighborhood. Aaatos envies Amine's Muslim faith and looks for his own gods, although his classmate Flo questions him; she is strongly convinced that anyone who believes in God is completely nuts. Gods of Molenbeek is a wonderful portrayal of childhood friendship, inquiry and the creation of meaning in a chaotic time.
- DirectorWillem BaptistStarsTengkwaEmil SitociChristian AceIn a world where fantasy meets reality, Tengkwa leads a band of Dutch wrestlers and tries to train a new generation of superheroes. With slim chances of fame and glory, only the most die-hard of them will succeed.
- DirectorTamara KotevskaLjubomir StefanovStarsHatidze MuratovaNazife MuratovaHussein SamThe last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.
- DirectorHeddy HonigmannStarsHeddy HonigmannZeb SmitsErna AarsenFascinating, multi-talented, indispensable dogs and their loving masters.
- DirectorAnna EbornStarsTatyana LipovskayaAnatoly NikolaevichAlexander StadnikAtmospherically shot on 16mm film, Transnistra is an intimate and vital account of love and friendship in a complex, contradictory world. Award-winning director Anna Eborn (Pine Ridge) intimately follows a group of young people as they move from a sweltering, carefree summer through an unforgiving winter in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle.
- DirectorAboozar AminiStarsMahdi EbadiA city is an orchestration of its inhabitants. The film portraits the city Kabul through daily details of two kids and a bus driver, set against the background of a city destroyed by politic and religious powers.
- DirectorJacqueline ZündStarsCarleton GogelSherazade GogelThomas KurmannWhen the parents split up, the children are left behind with their thoughts.
- DirectorHassan FaziliStarsHassan FaziliNargis FaziliZahra FaziliWhen the Taliban puts a bounty on Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two daughters. Capturing the journey, Fazili shows the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
- DirectorTon van ZantvoortA traditional shepherd is forced to innovate in a neo-liberal world that conflicts with his idealistic views. Will his struggle pay off or is he forced to go with the flock?
- DirectorRoberto MinerviniStarsJudy HillDorothy HillMichael NelsonWhat You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire is the story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait into the lives of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival.
- DirectorSeamus MurphyStarsPJ HarveyTerry EdwardsJohn ParishAccompany PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy on a journey through the creative process behind PJ Harvey's new album, conceived by their travels around the globe.
- DirectorElías León SiminianiStarsFlakoElías León SiminianiAinhoa RamírezNot every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.
- DirectorThomas HeiseStarsThomas HeiseIn this immersive film essay, master documentary filmmaker Thomas Heise dives into four generations of his own family archives to trace the profound cultural and political upheaval of Germany's last century.
- DirectorYuki KawamuraYuki Kawamura embarks on a road-trip with his father to Sapporo, Japan, to talk to the people who knew Norie, Yuki's mother, who died when he was only three years old.
- DirectorAlexe PoukineStarsConchita PazEpona GuillaumeAurore FattierAlexe Poukine tells the story of Ada, 19, brutally abused three times a few days apart by the same boy.
- DirectorNarges KalhorStarsFaezeh NikoozadForget everything you think you know about storytelling. And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while following four characters who moved to Germany in order to escape the dire and dangerous political situation of their countries. A Syrian gay teenager fears that his visa might be refused and that he might have to return home. An Iranian girl dreams of a Beergarden in the heart of Tehran. Another one struggles with her film project and her teacher that offers useless advice about the ways of making her work more understandable. And, while Scheherazade spins her stories night after night, the world turns gently upside down. A film that offers new meanings on getting lost in translation, while proposing also new perspectives on communication and multiculturalism. A hymn to the sheer force and freedom of creativity. A film that weaves together many layers of reality, juggling with fiction, mocking documentary and its rules.