Aurora Borealis: Northern Light (2017)

Marthe is a girl with a special gift: she can cure illnesses. But the time she lives in is marked by superstition and godliness. When Marthe can not help the burgrave's wife from her village, the girl has to flee. Your path crosses that of Ritter Christian, who moves eastward into the Mark Meissen with a group of Frankish settlers. In the Middle Ages an unimaginably long and arduous way. Christian has a hard time avoiding the fascination of Marthe, but their diverse backgrounds make a relationship impossible and the settlers are afraid of the weird girl.

After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalistic style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return.

현상금 사냥꾼 린자이펑은 외계 행성에서 온 클링곤 족인 머큐리를 잡아서 CIA에 넘긴다. 최고의 해커 실력을 자랑하는 머큐리는 자신이 직접 설계한 감옥에서 CIA의 지원 하에 범죄 활동을 감시하는 프로그램인 ‘신의 손’을 개발한다. 하지만 CIA가 ‘신의 손’을 이용해 테러조직을 소탕하는 과정에서 무고한 민간인들이 수없이 희생당하자 머큐리는 더 이상 협조하길 거부한다. 결국 머큐리는 감옥을 탈출해서 다시 잡히기 전에 자살을 한다. 몇 년이 흐른 후, 소피라는 정체불명의 여자가 CIA 이탈리아 본부에서 ‘신의 손’을 탈취하고 현장에 린자이펑 명함을 남겨둔다. 린자이펑과 연관이 있다고 생각한 CIA는 린자이펑을 찾아 협조를 요청한다. 사실, 소피는 머큐리의 딸로 린자이펑이 아빠를 CIA에 넘겨서 이용만 당하다 죽은 거라 생각하고 복수를 하려던 것. 소피는 지구의 평화를 지키려던 아빠와 달리, 지구인들을 심판하고 파멸시키려고 한다.

Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse. Partly inspired by Joseph Conrad’s modernist literary masterpiece Heart of Darkness, the visceral and moving work was filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo using 16mm colour infra-red film, which captures otherwise invisible parts of the spectrum. The resulting imagery in Mosse’s work is hallucinatory and dream-like with the usual greens of jungle and forest replaced by shimmering violet. The Enclave depicts a complicated, strife-ridden place in a way that reflects its complexity, using a strategy of beauty and transfixion to combat the wider invisibility of a conflict that has claimed so many.

폴란드 동쪽 국경지대의 볼히니아 지역은 우크라이나인, 폴란드인, 유대인들이 예로부터 섞여 살던 곳이다. 이곳의 폴란드계 아가씨 조피아는 언니 헬라가 우크라이나인 남편과 행복하게 결혼식을 올리는 것을 보며, 자신도 사랑하는 남자친구 페트로와 결혼할 것을 약속한다. 하지만 곧 폴란드는 세계 2차 대전의 화마에 휩싸이는데... 볼히니아 지역에서는 전통적으로 폴란드인 지주층과 우크라이나 소작농의 구조를 가졌고 이로 인한 갈등의 씨앗을 내포하고 있었다. 전쟁이 발발하자 우크라이나 계 주민들은 내심 독일군이 와서 폴란드를 몰아내고, 우크라이나 독립 국가를 건설해주길 바라고 있다. 독일군이 볼히니아를 점령하자 이곳의 유대인들은 학살당하고, 몇 년 후 독일군이 물러서자 이번엔 독일군 편에 섰던 우크라이나인들은 몇 년 전까지 이웃주민으로, 소꿉친구로 지냈던 폴란드계 주민들에게 끔찍한 학살을 자행한다. 20세기 민족주의가 가져온 극단적인 폭력성과 잔혹성을 한 폴란드 여인의 시선으로 보여준 작품이다.

서울에서 김정일 체제에 대한 풍자 그림을 그리고 자신의 탈북으로 비롯된 아픔을 극복해 가는 북한 선전원 출신 아티스트의 이야기가 펼쳐진다.

A feature-length documentary to show why Britain should vote to LEAVE the EU - and would thrive outside of it. Brexit: The Movie spells out the danger of staying part of the EU. Is it safe to give a remote government beyond our control the power to make laws? Is it safe to tie ourselves to countries which are close to financial ruin, drifting towards scary political extremism, and suffering long-term, self-inflicted economic decline?

From July to December 2015, with a camera team in tow, Bernard-Henri Lévy journeyed 1,000 km along the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Islamic State troops. The journey resulted in an illustrated logbook offering a special insight into an unfinished war with a global impact. Alongside the Peshmergas – Kurdish fighters imbued with a spirit of unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar mountains, passing the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction along the way. A tale peopled by real characters, men and women whose faces are rarely seen...

White Tape explores the theme of boundaries: the frame, the space between brushstrokes and the implications of occupation.

16세기부터 19세기까지 스페인의 식민지였던 필리핀은 긴 독립 운동 끝에 1898년 6월 12일, 스페인으로부터 독립한다. 영화는 이 혼란의 시기를 배경으로 필리핀 ‘반군’과 마지막까지 싸운 스페인의 군인들을 그린다. 이들은 패배가 거의 코앞에 다가왔음에도 조국의 영광을 지키기 위해 외딴 요새에 틀어박혀 현실을 받아들이지 않는다. 2017년 고야상 의상상 수상.

1943년, 온 세계가 전쟁의 화염에 휩싸인 가운데 아르투로는 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 그가 사랑하는 플로라는 뉴욕 마피아 보스의 아들과 원치 않는 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 무일푼의 웨이터인 아르투로에게 남은 유일한 방법은 플로라의 아버지가 살고 있는 시칠리아로 찾아가 플로라와의 결혼을 허락받는 것. 때마침 미군이 시칠리아 상륙작전을 위한 징집활동을 벌이자 아르투로는 사랑의 쟁취를 위해 입대 후 고향 시칠리아로 날아간다. 기존에 거의 다뤄지지 않은 역사적 사실에 토대를 둔 이 영화는 탄탄한 스토리, 세련된 유머, 그리고 신랄한 풍자가 절묘하게 어우러진 정통 이탈리아 코미디이다. 2차 대전이 중후반에 접어든 1943년을 배경으로 미연합군이 유럽으로 진입하기 위해 실제로 이탈리아 마피아와 결탁했던 정황이 오직 사랑을 위해 참전한 주인공 아르투로의 좌충우돌 모험과 함께 펼쳐진다. 아름다운 지중해의 풍광을 시원한 스케일로 비추는 카메라워크와 고지식하고 보수적이면서도 살짝 사기꾼 기질이 있는 이탈리아 섬사람의 진수를 그대로 구현한 입체적인 캐릭터들은 관람 내내 흥을 더해줄 것이다. 영화 초반 무솔리니 조각상과 성모 마리아상만으로도 큰 웃음을 선사하는 장면은 감독의 탁월한 유머 감각과 촉망받는 미래를 대변한다.

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Finland and WWII, locally known as continuation war, is the backdrop of this documentary.

In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the Chinese resistance group. On her way to freedom she must fight against Japanese soldiers, ninjas, a killer geisha, Nazis, and the evil General of the Japanese imperial army.

Beyond The Battalion tells the story of the 28th Māori Battalion. It revisits two earlier films, including one on the 1977 pilgrimage of the battalion back to their WW11 battle grounds.

Tsatsiki longs for the summer holidays when he will go to Greece to live with his dad Yanis. When Tsatsiki arrive at the village, it is not quite as he remembered it. Guesthouses and taverns are empty, there is a crisis in Greece and in his beloved village. When his dad delivers the bad news that he might have to sell both the hotel and the olive grove, Tsatsiki becomes upset. However, Tsatsiki's mother has taught him to never give up. He realizes that it is up to him to save the hotel, otherwise his beloved place in Greece will be lost.

The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries. Previously unpublished scenes about the private life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were also shown for the first time. The film was originally built into a frame story. The Off Commentary begins with the words: "This film [...] is a document of delusion that on the way to power tore an entire people and a whole world into disaster. This film portrays the suffering of a generation that only ended five to twelve. " The film premiered in Cologne on November 20, 1953, but was immediately banned by Federal Interior Minister Gerhard Schröder in agreement with the interior ministers of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.

On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, the start of a battle that was to last 12 weeks and claim the lives of some 240,000 people. This film depicts the Battle through the eyes of Japanese and American soldiers who fought each other on the same battlefield, along with Okinawa civilians who were swept up in the fighting. The film also depicts the history of discrimination and oppression forced upon Okinawa by the American and Japanese governments. Carrying up to the current controversy over the construction of a new base at Henoko, the film explores the root causes of the widespread disillusionment and anger expressed by many Okinawans. This ambitious documentary was directed by the American John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. Okinawa: The Afterburn is a heartfelt plea for peace and an expression of deep respect for the unyielding spirit of the Okinawa people.

After he completed his mandatory military service, the filmmaker was held in retention as the revolution unfurled in his country. His military rank was that of a sergeant. During these times, he would go back to his home, located in the middle of Damascus city, take off his military uniform and return to his normal life, working as an assistant director with his friend, the filmmaker Mohammed Malas. To make sense of this schizophrenic situation, he decides to take his camera and start shooting a ‘making-of’ that will eventually go beyond Malas’s film.

In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African migrants, watching the land border, a fence system separating Morocco and Spain. Abou from Mali is one of them – the protagonist in front of the camera, as well as the person behind it. For over a year, he has ceaselessly persisted in attempting to jump the fence.

Europe 1815. War rages across the continent. Fallen Soldiers tells the story of a British soldier trapped behind enemy lines. A young noblewoman’s coach is hijacked and her husband murdered by a desperate British soldier. At gunpoint, the soldier spins her an outlandish tale of plagues, conspiracies, and dead men returning from the grave.