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Third Time LuckyA spiritual sequel to Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s Happy Hour (2015), the most significant Japanese film of the 2010s. After Hamaguchi moved his base from Kobe to Tokyo, most of his ...
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Listen to LightThe second feature-length film by Sugita Kyoshi, released about six years since his debut feature A Song I Remember (2011) drew attention of the film world. Listen to Lig...
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My Small LandA commercial feature directorial debut for Kawawada Emma, who joined the Bun-Buku production company headed by Kore-eda Hirokazu and has since served as his assistant director. ...
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Silvered Water, Syria Self-PortraitCan smartphones be a new weapon for the people of the 21st century? Today anyone can take a picture of the lowest places on earth with a camera in their hand and send it to the wor...
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My WinnipegA documentary about a city’s history and the director’s personal history, created by the Canadian director Guy Maddin, who was commissioned to make a film about his hometown of Win...
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CamerapersonIn the first caption, Kirsten Johnson asks the audience to view the footage she filmed for other directors during her twenty-five-year career as a cinematographer as her own memoir...
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Some Photos in the City of SylviaDriven by his fascination of black-and-white silent films from the early 20th century, Spanish filmmaker Jose? Luis Guerin envisioned a mystical documentary of romantic fantasies t...
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De Humani Corporis FabricaVerena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, the directors of Leviathan, head to operating rooms in hospitals with the miniature surgical cameras that can enter people’s bodie...
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTIONA found footage film about World War II by Ukrainian master filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION, was inspired by W.G. Sebald’s book of the same nam...
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Everything will be OKA theater for animals opens, and the history of mankind unfolds across the screen. What will the animals learn from watching the history of human tragedies, such as Hitler’s brutal...