Heroes of the Golden Mask(2023)

Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone(fi)

Julius, who devours comic books and vampire stories, has a lively imagination. Julius meets Arnold Cautious, who lives in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town and introduces himself as a degenerated, strawberry juice-drinking vampire. Julius and Cautious become friends. Together they try to make the Lucky Stone, the recipe for which is in Cautious' grandmother's secret recipe book. Julius wants to give the stone to his estranged parents so they can rediscover their common happiness. Julius and Arnold's laboratory attempts to make the Lucky Stone falter badly time and time again, but they stubbornly pursue their quest for happiness.

Gunpowder(ru)

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.

En Aaloda Seruppa Kaanom(ta)

The adventures of a young man who tries to trace the missing slipper of the girl he is in love with.

The Silence of the River(fr)

“Forgetting is complicit in recidivism,” says the commentary of this film dedicated to the demonstration of October 17, 1961 in Paris and the savage repression that followed. 11,538 Algerians will be arrested, which is reminiscent of the great Vel d’hiv roundup of July 16 and 17, 1942 where 12,884 Jews were arrested.
 The film brings together eyewitnesses including a priest, a peacekeeper, a couple of workers sympathetic to the Algerian cause, a lawyer, Paris municipal councilors including Claude Bourdet (then one of the leaders of the PSU and journalist to France Observateur), Gérard Monatte, the future police union leader, and the editor and writer François Maspero.

Hide(en)

HIDE is a contained psychological thriller about one resilient wife’s (Nadine Malouf) fight to escape her husband’s (Ben Samuels) escalating gaslighting and abuse during lockdown. The female-centric genre film is lensed in the wife’s evolving perspective as she slowly comes to see what is happening to her and finds the support to fight back. Visually mesmerizing and emotionally arresting, the film’s pace and pathos pull us into a story that will feel uncomfortably familiar to too many of us.

Voice(ru)

An 18-year-old woman is on the run from the repressions in Belarus. She took part in the demonstrations against falsified elections in August 2020 and protested the inauguration of the former president. She went through arrests and detentions.

John Kay & Steppenwolf - Live In Louisville(en)

Track list: 1. SOOKIE SOOKIE (D. Covay / S. Cropper) 2. ROCK AND ROLL REBELS (Kay/Wilk/Ritchotte) 3. ROCK ME (J. Kay) 4. I'M MOVIN' ON (H. Snow) 5. ENDLESS COMMERCIAL (John Kay) 6. HEY LAWDY MAMA (J.Kay/L.Byrom/J.Edmonton) 7. HOLD ON (NEVER GIVE UP NEVER GIVE IN) (Kay/Wilk/Ritchotte) 8. RIDE WITH ME (M.Bonfire) 9. SHE'S GOT THE GOODS (John Kay) 10. HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN (W. Dixon) 11. SNOWBLIND FRIEND (H.Axton) 12. MONSTER (J. Kay / J. Edmonton) 13. MAGIC CARPET RIDE (J. Kay / R. Moreve) 14. BORN TO BE WILD (M. Bonfire) 15. THE PUSHER (H. Axton)

Who by Water(en)

Drawing from a passage from the Rosh Hashana Service, “Who shall live, who shall die… who by water, who by fire,” this short film deals with that which has been preordained—a future history that will in time unfold before us as the faces of passengers on a ship forces us to contemplate our own fate.

Mm(en)

Part-feminist linguistic investigation, part-child’s learning tool and celebration of motor sport, a voice-over of words and associations narrates 35mm verité footage of the Berwick Bandits, an all-male Speedway motorcycle team with the mantra ‘No Brakes, No Gears, No Fear’.

La Rosalía(es)

Westender(en)

Set in a fictional medieval world, this is the story of Asbrey of Westender. Once a great heroic knight, he has mysteriously fallen from grace. One night he drunkenly bets and loses his ring, his last possession of worth. He then embarks on a mission to regain his ring and, in due course, confront the demons of his past.

Generation '89 - Growing up in the year of change(en)

The documentary tells the story of the reunification from the perspective of six teenagers from East Germany.

Mazoo and the Zoo 3(el)

Greek three-man band who with their songs and their dance moves make familiar to children the animals. The complex has a membership of Artemis Kokkinara, Teresa Sassou and the man of the group is Efthymis Kokkinaras while lyricist is Manos Vafeiadis.

LE CASO MIRASSOL 2(pt)

La macchina delle immagini di Alfredo C.(it)

April 1939. Fascist Italy occupies Albania. Thousands of Italian workers, settlers and technicians are transferred to the country. November 1944, Albania is liberated. The new Communist government closes the borders and places dozens of conditions on Italy for the repatriation of its citizens. In 1945 27,000 Italian veterans and civilians were still held in Albania. Among them there is a cameraman, Alfredo C. An operator of the Fascist propaganda effort, he has been traveling around Albania with his movie camera for five years. Before that, for almost two decades, he had immortalised the great machine of the regime. Now, by a twist of fate, being the only cameraman around, Alfredo has been asked to work on behalf of Communist propaganda. Shut up in his storeroom, surrounded by thousands of reels of film, Alfredo watches what he has shot again on an old Moviola. It is his film that we are watching. And perhaps, not his alone.

Wasted!(nl)

Twentysomething innocents Jacqui and Martijn move to Amsterdam and immerse themselves in the intense and drug-laden underground club scene. Life turns out to be far more complicated, difficult, and dangerous than they bargained for. Their relationship is tested - repeatedly.

Zeno Reads a Newspaper(en)

A man "experiences" current events as he reads about them in the newspaper.

Tea Date(en)

An English language student brings a little brightness into the life of her elderly, widowed tutor.