Wherever You Go, There We Are (2017)

A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness.

Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline Oliveros, David Tudor, John Cage, and Pandit Pran Nath. His contribution as an interdisciplinary composer, educator, and founding member of Western Front, though undoubtedly extensive, is in danger of being erased from cultural memory since his death from AIDS in 1993. Navigating an array of archival materials including letters, correspondences, notebooks, personal photos, and a huge body of unreleased music and field recordings held at the archives of Simon Fraser University, Electro-Pythagoras is a journey through the evolution of Bartlett’s musical time and space, softly guided by Luke Fowler’s insightful camera and montage—creating an experimental portrait that defies one-dimensionality.

Yacine is in his 30s, of Algerian origins, and has come to Paris looking for inner peace. A playful and poetic quest leads him via all kinds of strange encounters to an increasingly surrealist world and to Andalusia: a state of mind.

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.

루이 트레버는 자신이 건강하다고 느끼지만, 사실 그의 심장은 더 이상 버틸 수 없을 정도로 쇠약해진 상태다. 그리고 루이 역시 그 사실을 알고 있다. 고독 속에 파묻혀 지내던 루이는 심장이식 수술 뒤 전혀 다른 인생을 살아가기 시작한다. 프랑스와 스위스 국경에 위치한 산장에서 시작된 여행은 정확한 위치를 알 수 없는 남태평양의 어느 해안까지 이른다. 자신을 괴롭히던 위험을 던져버리고, 청산할 수 없는 혹은 청산하고 싶지 않은 빚을 진 루이는 자신의 과거 그리고 현재와 화해하고자 한다.

The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the isolation, and the desire to escape are recorded on film in various contexts. Voice-over readings from the journal kept by a brother of the filmmaker’s friend who committed suicide in 1990 intermix with a range of compelling stories, from the poignant double suicide of an elderly American couple to a Japanese teenager who jumped into a volcano, spawning over a thousand imitations. While this is a serious exploration of a cultural taboo, its lyrical qualities invite the viewer to approach the subject with understanding and compassion.

Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.

Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.

1946년 알래배마에서 백인 새뮤얼 브랜취가 흑인 빌 스팬을 살해하는 사건이 벌어졌다. 브랜취의 증손자인 윌커슨 감독은 후손들조차 거론하기를 거부하는 자신의 악명높은 조상을 조사해보기로 결심한다.

Tension has long simmered between Turkish soldiers and Kurdish separatists in southeastern Anatolia and, in 2015, the conflict escalated into a military lockdown.  Given the lack of media coverage, locals began filming the empty streets in single-take, one-hour clips which were posted to the internet and then vanished.  Coinciding with this event is the falling of the Leonids, a spectacular meteor shower which emblazons the black skies with impermanent light. 

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn't choose them. Every time, he felt in by running from another life. That's the reason why his name's Run.

Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a recurring dream in which Joshi pursues a shadowy figure who leads him to 'Paradise', a night-club where teenage girls dance to a leering crowd. He is convinced he will find Aruna there and vows to bring her back to Leela, his broken wife.

Paris, 1995. Laure is about to meet friends for dinner. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When she offers a handsome stranger a ride, Laure takes a highly charged, impossibly erotic detour.

감옥에서 출소해 새로운 생활을 꿈꾸던 남자에게 닥쳐온 시련을 그린 영화

Shot by a reported “1,001 Syrians” according to the filmmakers, SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT impressionistically documents the destruction and atrocities of the civil war through a combination of eye-witness accounts shot on mobile phones and posted to the internet, and footage shot by Bedirxan during the siege of Homs. Bedirxan, an elementary school teacher in Homs, had contacted Mohammed online to ask him what he would film, if he was there. Mohammed, working in forced exile in Paris, is tormented by feelings of cowardice as he witnesses the horrors from afar, and the self-reflexive film also chronicles how he is haunted in his dreams by a Syrian boy once shot to death for snatching his camera on the street.

은 1960년대 말 독일 적군파(RAF)를 탄생시킨 정치적 급진주의의 연대기를 다루고 있다. 독일의 혁명 테러리스트 그룹인 독일 적군파는 좌파 시사잡지인 ‘콩크레트’(Konkret)의 기자였던 울리케 마인호프와 그의 학생운동 후배인 안드레아스 바더를 중심으로 구드룬 엔슬린, 독일 필름&TV 아카데미의 학생인 홀거 마인츠와 변호사인 호르스트 말러에 의해 결성되었다. 영화는 68혁명의 시기부터 적군파가 비극을 맞이하게 되는 1977년 가을까지의 아카이브 푸티지로만 재구성 되었다. 특히 고다르, 파스빈더, 안토니오니를 포함한 당시 시네아스트들의 푸티지와 독일 필름&TV 아카데미 작품들은 이 비극적 연대기를 감동적인 울림으로 전한다. (2015년 7회 DMZ국제다큐영화제)

아프리카의 북서쪽 해안에 위치한 카보베르데라는 작은 섬나라의 마을. 포르투갈에서 온 간호사 마리아나는 건설현장에서 사고를 당한 레오를 간호한다. 레오는 자신의 처지에 분노하며, 그런 레오를 지켜보는 마리아나는 유럽의 식민지였던 이 땅의 아픈 역사를 생각한다. (2021 포르투갈 영화제)

Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.