The Dreamed Path
Angela Schanelec | Der Traumhafte Weg
Germany | 2016 | DCP | 86min | MR: 14 years old
Greece, 1984. Kenneth, an Englishman, and Theres, a German girl, sing in the street to finance their holidays. They are in love, but when Kenneth learns that his mother had an accident, he hastily returns home. 30 years later in Berlin. Ariane, a TV actress, leaves her husband, a successful anthropologist. After moveing into an apartment near the main station, the husband start seing a homeless man outside his window.
Empathy
Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli | Empathy
USA | 2016 | DCP | 83min | MR: 18 years old
This documentary film follows Em, a heroin-addicted professional escort as she moves between New York City, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. With intimate access to seemingly all aspects of her life—her friends, lovers, clients, and Em alone—we witness firsthand the difficulties of getting clean and are given a stark but touching image of what it means to be young today. The film is an alternately humorous and harrowing look at a seldom depicted side of American life as well as a meditation on the performativity at the core of documentary filmmaking and the sex industry alike.
The Wound
John Trengove | Inxeba
South Africa/Germany/Nederlands/France | 2017 | DCP | 88min | MR: 18 years old
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp, young men, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who increasingly calls into question the patriarchal codes of the initiation, as well as the unbearable crisis building in Xolani as he must choose between the traditional world that he knows, and his own fulfillment.
Before We Vanish
Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Sanpo suru shinryakusha
Japan | 2017 | DCP | 129min | MR: 14 years old
Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being – all sense of good, evil, property, family, belonging. The psychological and spiritual essence of all humanity is at stake.
