Special Screenings

Opening Film: TWST – Things We Said Today

A time capsule of New York City between August 13-15, 1965, framed by the Beatles’ arrival in the city and their first concert at Shea Stadium, all narrated from two teenagers' points of view.

Merman

Ana Lungu | Duration 85’

A female voice is haunting a male gaze. An archival documentary about three men making images of women, in Romania, from WWII until the Revolution: an engineer filming his daughter, a music professor documenting his family and an aristocrat capturing the summer spent with his wife during wartime.

A Fidai Film

r. Kamal Aljafari | Duration 78’

In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, A Fidai Film explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.

Eight Postcards from Utopia

Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz | Duration 71’

Eight Postcards from Utopia is a found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements. In bringing together these documents of Romania’s long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism. A film between found poetry and an outdated encyclopaedia, between trash art and Summa theologiae.

Closing film: It’s Not Me

Leos Carax | Duration 41’

For an exhibition that in the end never took place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to reply, in pictures, to the question : Where are you at, Leos Carax? He attempts an answer – full of questions. About himself and “his” world: I don’t know, but if I did, I’d reply that…