Towards Impossible Cinema: Documentary Film and Avant-garde in Cuba
Hand in hand with the radical political changes that swept Cuba in the 1960s and in the spirit of the relentless opposition to…
Memories of Underdevelopment
Our ambivalent protagonist Sergio belongs to a wealthy bourgeois family and wants to become a writer. Although his family and friends fled to…
Lucky
Ninety-one-year-old atheist has outlived almost all of his coevals and now he is facing his own mortality and elusive enlightenment. An eccentric meditation…
11. Subversive Film Festival winners announced!
Shortly before the Subversive Conference opening, the awards ceremony of the11th Subversive Film Festival was held in kino Europa. This years’ winners of…
Nothing Returns (Seven Minutes of Melancholy)
out of competition Locus: a grove near Peroj, almost adjacent to the sea. Feature and documentary. Fiction and actuality. Reality and illusion. A…
La Bouche
A man finds out that his daughter has been ruthlessly murdered by her own husband. Time stands still as he oscillates between the…
When Pigs Come
“My grandma Dragoslava is the best grandma in the world. She loves playing cards, riding a bike and playing video games, she even…
Lectures: Louis Armand and David Vichnar
DARK MATTER, BLACK TRANSPARENCY & THE AESTHICISATION OF POLITICS The Alt-Right’s recent re-appropriation of dissident & revolutionary discourse, married to a regime of…
Piazza Vittorio
Rome’s Piazza Vittorio, located a few steps from Termini station, is home to foreigners. Africans and Afghans live and sleep with homeless people….
The Signature
A naive young man from China is trying to memorize his own “hope” amidst the chaos of Shibuya, Tokyo. In expectance of something…
Two Basilicas
The confrontation between a church in Copenhagen and cathedral in Orvieto as a dialogue between two different approaches to faith and religion. The…
Aria
The seven-year-old Aria works at Jimmy’s kebab place, waiting for her father, who is supposed to give her lessons for her driving test….
Ant Killers
In a Brazilian town, every day a teenager goes to the eucalyptus woods, where she kills ants with pesticide. But the real struggle…
8th Continent
On the Greek island of Lesbos, there is a deserted waste area, a cemetery of rejected life jackets used by refugees on their…
Islands
Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and desire – this is the haiku-synopsis of Gonzales’ piece from the catalogue for the…
Crossing River
During a normal day, a young Chinese construction worker has to face loneliness and isolation, in pursuit of something meaningful.
Hotel Yugoslavia
Although ghostly interiors of the Hotel Yugoslavia in Belgrade owe much to Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter (code: Homo Sapiens), Wagnières does not limit…
Young Solitude
After wandering through the Parisian Bois de Vincennes (code: The Woods Dreams are Made of), Simon and her non-invasive camera enter a high…
Wild Relatives
In order to “protect” and replicate the seeds from war-battered crops of the Syrian Aleppo, the scientists from the International Center for Agricultural…
Central Airport THF
The symbol of former Nazi grandeur, the central airport of West Berlin during the Wall, Tempelhof has today become a temporary asylum for…
