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- DirectorPelin EsmerStarsMithat EsmerThis is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this passionate collector through the vivid streets of Istanbul, among the crowd, in search of new collection items while trying to understand his perception of life and collection.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsPierre AssoA short film, forming part of a series of shorts looking at Turkey. This film takes in Istanbul; a city divided by the Bosphorus river and the effect this has on the culture and history of Turkey, Europe and Asia.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsAndré ReybazThe fall and pillaging of the once ancient Greek and later Roman city of Byzantium (also known as Constantinople and later Istanbul) by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsPierre AssoThe modern city of Byzance with its three cities united as one by the Bosphorus river and Galata bridge.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsAndré ReybazThe Golden Horn in Istanbul with its Sultanate palaces lends itself for reflection upon the public and private aspects of Istanbul society.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsAndré ReybazShort film exploring a Turkish man's life via the poems of Nazim Hikmet.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsJacques GripelPehlivan is a call to fight in an ancient wrestling competition that lasts for 3 days. The film follows the wrestling event.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsMichel PiccoliJuan AlmeidaAlejo CarpentierA photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCaroline BaudryCatherineAgnès VardaWhat does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
- DirectorLynne SachsIn 1998 lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer took part in a one-month residency at a Cape Cod dune shack without running water or electricity, where she shot film, recorded sound and kept a journal. In 2018 she gave all of this material to Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with it.
- DirectorAdam KhalilZack KhalilJackson PolysThe 1996 discovery of the Kennewick Man is examined in a deconstruction of indigenous identity and anthropological ethics.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsFouli EliaUlysse LlorcaCharles de GaulleAgnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsRoger PigautA travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular railway elevators. The poorest residents on the hilltops have trouble obtaining water for drinking and washing. There are community dances, a travelling circus, a race course. Boys feed the harbour sealions; a fashionable woman walks her penguin. The ever-present onshore breeze provides fresh air and an ideal environment for kite-flying. The film's second half is in colour, making the switch with the tale of the city's bloody pirate past.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsMarcel AchardBrigitte BardotBourvilDigging once again into the deep archives of 20th century audiovisual history, Sergei Loznitsa crafts this elegant, ironic mini-portrait of the galas of Paris's Palais Garnier in the 1950s and 60s. With his typically masterful use of montage, and a minutely reconstructed soundtrack, Loznitsa revisits a socio-political microcosm that features adoring crowds and glimpses of Bardot, Cocteau, and Queen Elizabeth II amid the pomp and ceremony of Parisian high society.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsShabnam YousefiSolmaz PanahiJafar PanahiJafar Panahi sets out to find a young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by her family.
- DirectorMargaret TaitStarsMargaret TaitA short film from Margaret Tait capturing the daily life of her mother, Ga.