Earth has been abandoned a long time now and the human race has found refuge in outer space. Three archeologists from the future return to Earth to investigate where a mysterious five-tone signal is coming from...
Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because its heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts
After his father's death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he’s wearing down into his misery routine.
The script of the film (Var Var Vari) was nothing close to the scripts (of infinite variety) that we had dealt with/struggled with/enacted at the NSD.
That all the realistic acting associated with Stanislavsky’s Method Acting, was anathema to the FTII film students and to Kumar himself, I discovered when I asked the question;
So (..umm) who is my lover across the river, Kumar?
Kumar smiled, his characteristic smile (a dimple appears on his cheek) and the foot of the leg that was crossed over the other leg, kept gently tapping the air (another characteristic
of his (please remember, as an actress, it is my second nature to observe and remember everything that a person does).
He smiled and tapped the air with his foot for some time and said nothing.
The pause, in anticipation of the answer, was filled by the titter of mirth that ran across the room full of the students (the crew of the film). I had no access to what the amusement was.
All I sensed was that I had inspired it—the amusement, the derision and the eye rolling.
I tried not to feel stupid.
A black swan, Kumar dimpled at me finally, gently. Your lover is a black swan.
And he laughed (not unkindly though) and the others doubled up in mirth…
A black swan?
Okay!
I smiled, hugely, nonchalantly.
I was not going to let them see my heart plummeting into my solar plexus.
Later that night as I lay in my bed, in the FTII girls hostel room I was sharing with Nandini, I was unable to sleep, I had no idea how to handle this role.
The rain was a soft drizzle outside the window, the air moist and cool on my skin, and then, a memory stirred.
M.A. English, the metaphysical poets. The class I so loved to attend because it was taught so inspiringly and passionately by the wonderful Ira Pandey. She made us fall in love with the metaphysical poets: John Donne and Yeats in particular, and now five years later, in prep for my first film, I suddenly recall the poem by W B Yeats. ‘Leda and the Swan’.
RIP KUMAR SHAHANI.
Kumar Shahani discussing his craft ...
On a hedonistic Greek island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends.
A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
Boy eating the bird's food: Yorgos is 22 and lives in Athens. He doesn't have a job, money, a girlfriend, or food. His most important possessions are his canary and his beautiful singing voice.
Loosely inspired by Knut Hamsun's famous novel - Hunger.
Attenberg: Rebelliously designed and surprisingly structured narrative about a young woman (Labed, best actress in Venice), who prefers to look at human love from a distance.
Trailer...
Lanthimos played games with his actors. Making them adopt a behavior that is suitable for the film was the intention.
INTERVIEW WITH YORGOS LANTHIMOS ABOUT HIS FILM DOGTOOTH.
People standing in line; all in order.
Everyone is starving for something: products,
entertainment, religion, art, money.
But in the last queue, they are all starving for… food.
It’s the queue of personal survival.
If the food ends, then disorder begins.
And if one man falls, we all fall down.
- Yorgos Zois
Man in Black (2023) Wang Bing
The naked body of Wang Xilin, one of the most important modern Chinese composers, becomes a site of historical struggle in Wang Bing's Man in Black and the symphonies composed by the maestro becomes a relic of history.
#WangBing #maninblack #CulturalRevolution #chinesecinema
Kiarostami's Tribute to Lumiere Brothers.
' Do we need family? The Family is constructed, it is fake' - Yorgos Lanthimos
In this horror short, things around Asagi become increasingly absurd after her friend dies.
Director- Yusuke Iwasaki
Mum, I'm Back - Dimitris Katsimiris
Short
Duration- 4.30 mins
A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother.
“I’m Not Everything I Want to Be“ (Ještě nejsem, kým chci být) by Klára Tasovská.
After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková strives to break free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embark on a long journey towards freedom.
"Mãos no fogo" (Hands in the Fire) by Margarida Gil.
While exploring old manor houses along the Douro River, the young film student Maria do Mar finds herself trapped in a house of horrors.
In praise of slowness - Hicham Gardaf
Due to economic and technological forces reshaping the city of Tangier, the profession of the bleach street salesmen, along with their insistent chanting, is disappearing. The film explores modes of resistance against the relentless pace of capitalism.
