Tributes - Retrospectives - Cinema on cinema
| 90 minutes | 0
To date there are four features in Alain Gomis’ body of work, and all four are steeped in intelligence, humanity, poetry and gritty urban realism. Born to a Senegalese father and a French mother, Alain Gomis rose to prominence when his first feature, L’Afrance, a coming-of-age story about a Senegalese student in France, won the Silver Leopard at Locarno in 2001. Filmed in Paris, Dakar and Kinshasa, these four films explore rootlessness, freedom and the search for identity. The director will give a master class and present his first feature, Andalucia and his last, Félicité, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale and the Golden Stallion at Fespaco.
The anguished exaltation of Let the Corpses Tan, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears and Amer had its genesis in these diabolical shorts. SUIVI...
Masterclass
90 minutes | 0
This unsung documentary about women’s bodybuilding features abundant sweat, ripped bodies and 80s nail polish. In 1977, the unlikely docudrama Pumping...
Feature film , Documentary
UNITED STATES | 90 minutes | 1985
Over the years, Konstantina Kotzamani has developed her own signature style, blurring the lines between surrealism and dream-states, leaving us in limbo to...
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