Special Programs in Focus

• Lucian PINTILIE
• Romania,France
• 2003
• 90m

Who are Niki and Flo? Niki is a retired colonel whose son has just died in an accident. His daughter and her husband, the son of Flo, want to leave Romania behind for the United St...

Special Programs in Focus

• Lucian PINTILIE
• Romania
• 1993
• 82m

Romania in the 1920′s. In a border town on the left bank of the Danube, the local nobility attend a glittering ball. Army Captain Petre Dumitriu and his beautiful young wife Marie-...

Special Programs in Focus

• Forough FAROKHZAD
• Iran
• 1962
• 25min

In 1962, Farrokhzad and three colleagues from Golestan Films traveled to Tabriz and in twelve days filmed The House Is Black, a documentary on the leper colony there. As for the si...

Special Programs in Focus

• Nasser SAFFARIAN
• Iran
• 2002
• 60min

The second episode of a three-part documentary dealing with the life and work of Forugh Farrokhzad(1935-1967), the legendary Iranian poetess and filmmaker whose influence may be se...

Special Programs in Focus

• Jean-François POULIOT
• Canada
• 2003
• 108m

In the little Quebecois harbour village of St-Marie-La-Mauderne, the vanishing fish stooke have plummeted a once thriving community into financial decline, forcing the fishermen to...

Special Programs in Focus

• Jan TROELL
• Sweden
• 1968
• 110m

Jan Troell′s classic film from the late 1960s tells the tale of Martensson is a schoolteacher in Malmo, in southern Sweden. Bitterly aware of his failure to communicate with his pu...

Special Programs in Focus

• Lucian PINTILIE
• Romania
• 1992
• 100m

Bucharest, 1988. Nela assists the death of her father, a former colonel of the Securitate and loyal supporter of the oppressive regime. Her father has bequeathed his remains to med...