Film events and Master Classes
CANADA , Switzerland | 100 minutes | 2017
In Bolivia, Nepal, New York and Montreal, prison seen from the point of view of the inmates’ children. It’s a particularly distressing fact of life that most female prisoners are also mothers. When a woman is incarcerated, her child either suffers a gut-wrenching separation or joins her behind bars. What is the daily reality of these children, bereft of their mothers, and what rights do they have? Taking on the role of documentarian, Léa Pool delivers four harrowing, intertwined portraits.
No biography
Classical Japan meets 1960s psychedelia in Kobayashi’s surreal collection of existential ghost stories. Sarah Pagé has composed new scores for Kurokami,...
Feature film , Drama
JAPAN | 100 minutes | 1964
An intimate, visceral documentary on contemporary dance portraying a sensitive woman at an artistic crossroads. After 10 years as the star of the Tel...
Feature film , Documentary
DENMARK , Sweden , Israel , United States | 100 minutes | 2017
A solitary white-collar searches for the meaning of life; an innocent prisoner newly released from prison awaits his death; a North Korean woman escapes to...
Feature film
CHINA | 100 minutes | 2017
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