Me (2020)

This detailed and sober look at the issue of nuclear power begins where Germany is currently standing: with shutting it off. It’s precisely because the film is anything but alarmist that the alarming aspect of the situation becomes clear. The nuclear nightmare is not over; a safe final nuclear waste repository is not in sight. And yet, boosted by the coal phase-out, many people seem to see “clean” nuclear energy as an option again. The terror of climate change trumps the terror of the nuclear worst case scenario. A zero sum game.

A garishly colourful political rap video from Italy. Politics, business and daily life are poisoned by the influence of Mafia and Camorra. Fight da faida! Fight blood vengeance!

An award winning short film by Konstantin Bronzit from 1994.

The Zillas, a huge family of lizards, emerge from the sea and notice that their traditional picnic area is inhabited by humans and other monsters.

An earthworm decides that he wants to be a caterpillar, but he can't fit in. Soon he learns being a worm is not so bad.

Set theory, one of the cornerstones of mathematics, serves as a metaphor for “social structures as spatial arrangement”, as the first sequence of the film reveals. The visual playfulness first becomes an exploration of two- and three-dimensionality and then turns out to be a well-founded reflection of social power relations. The search for a supposedly correct “order of things” triggers the compulsive element in many viewers. Who’s (not) afraid of being different?

In Siculiana, a small Sicilian town full of flaking facades, religiosity is lived out as a matter of course. And of course the figure of Jesus Christ worshipped here is black, and always has been. However, some people cannot get used to their dark-skinned neighbours in the refugee camp. The camera accompanies locals and stranded people along their paths, which often lead to the church, but not necessarily together, and draws a kind of map of the city in black-on-black contrasts.

A portrait of a happy cynic and lateral thinker who has persevered for years in a legal dispute over his dilapidated house with authorities in the luxury spa town of St. Moritz.

Mady and Merouane are two eleven-year-olds who grow up as best friends in the north-east of Paris. They live right next door to each other and that’s more important to them than anything else. And anyway, they feel so at home in their neighbourhood that they can’t think of a more perfect place to practice adulthood. When some other boys turn up, their friendship is briefly put to the test.

両親と上の兄姉が渡米中、エドマンドとルーシーのペベンシー兄妹はいとこのユースチスの家に預けられた。ある時、壁に掛けられた船の絵を見ていた3人は、突然動き出した絵の中に吸い込まれ、ナルニアの海へと放り出された。王となったカスピアンやネズミの騎士リーピチープが乗る船・朝びらき丸に救われた彼らは、懐かしい友人たちとの再会を喜ぶ間もなく、ナルニアを悪から守る7つの魔法の剣を探す冒険に加わることになる。

「ダイバージェント」シリーズのテオ・ジェームズが主演を務めたSFスリラー。日本の山奥にある施設で人型アンドロイドの開発を進めるロボット工学者ジョージ・アルモア。会社からは成果をあげていないと不評だが、実は亡き妻ジュールをよみがえらせるための研究を続けていた。「アーカイヴ」というシステムを通じて彼女と交流するジュールは、そこから違法にデータを取り出し、J1、J2とバージョンアップしたアンドロイドを開発。そしてついに、まるで本物のジュールのようなJ3の完成が目前に迫る。そんな矢先、J2が予想外の行動をとり始め、さらに施設が外部の何者かに見つかってしまう。共演は「ニンフォマニアック」のステイシー・マーティン、「アンダーワールド　ビギンズ」のローナ・ミトラ、「裏切りのサーカス」のトビー・ジョーンズ。ヒューマントラストシネマ渋谷＆シネ・リーブル梅田で開催の「未体験ゾーンの映画たち2021」上映作品。

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.

A jumble of emerging history is contrasted with the present efforts to optimise profit through ventures and ominous business ideas. In the midst of this labyrinth is a duo of artists who only want to make films. Their misfortune: the German film funding system allows only those who work in an artistic-documentary style to realise science fiction films. Cause enough to find true science fiction material on real German soil instead of looking for a fiction.

“With this film I try to retrace my journey, my story through the ruins, neighbourhoods, and streets of Berlin. I filmed the dialogue that took place between the city and myself, the wanderings in the old neighbourhoods (Moabit, Kreuzberg, Wedding), places where you can still find most of the traces of the past, or rather what’s left of them.” (AL)

"Bulletproof" observes the age-old rituals that take place daily in American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are an array of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearm trainings, metal detector inspections, and school safety trade shows. This documentary weaves together these moments in a cinematic meditation on fear, violence, and the meaning of safety, bringing viewers into intimate proximity with the people self-tasked with protecting the nation's children while generating revenue along the way, as well as with those most deeply impacted by these heightened security measures: students and teachers.

Socio-geographic explorations on the periphery of Addis Ababa, run through by a variety of borders and rifts – between agrarian and urban spatial practices, between economic and linguistic floes, between perspective and dilemma. A polyphonic audiovisual narrative of people who are forced to experience the impetuous urbanisation of African societies the hard way, recorded as a case study that expands into a complex allegory.

What did the Corona lockdown look like from a window in the residential towers of posh East London in the spring of 2020? The film shows serious shifts in the everyday coordinate system of a privileged urban population at an immediate level.

西暦2154年。人類は惑星ポリフェマスの最大衛星パンドラに鉱物採掘基地を開いている。この星は熱帯雨林のような未開のジャングル覆われていて獰猛な動物と”ナヴィ”という先住種族が暮らしており、森の奥には地球のエネルギー問題解決の鍵となる希少鉱物の鉱床がある。この星の大気は人間に適さないので屋外活動にはマスクを着用する必要があり、ナヴィと意思疎通し交渉するために人間とナヴィの遺伝子を組み合わせて人間が作りあげた”アバター”が用いられた。