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.

Actua 1

Philippe Garrel | Actua 1

France | 1968 | DCP | 6min | MR: 14 years old

A film considered almost lost even by Garrel, who recently found his negatives. Shot during the events of the May 68, it was made collectively; the film is a merge of Garrel’s and his partners’ points of view, all of them students and filmmakers that participated in the revolt. Collage of scenes from the Paris barricades that were recorded surreptitiously by some of the protesters. Viewed years later, the footage thrusts the audience right into the heart of the revolutionary fever.

Spell Reel

Filipa César | Spell Reel

Germany/Portugal/France/ Guinea-Bissau | 2017 | DCP | 96min | MR: 14 years old

In 2011, an archive of film and audio material re-emerged in Bissau. On the verge of complete ruination, the footage testifies to the birth of Guinean cinema as part of the decolonising vision of Amílcar Cabral, the liberation leader assassinated in 1973. In collaboration with the Guinean filmmakers Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes, and many allies, Filipa César imagines a journey where the fragile matter from the past operates as a visionary prism of shrapnel to look through. Digitised in Berlin, in superbly vivid tableaux, the film juxtaposes the black-and-white 16mm footage with contemporary digital images, subtly manipulating scale, orientation, and text to alternatively create distance or achieve proximity between past and present.
 
Image and sound (1967-80): José Bolama, Cobumba, Julinh Camará, Djalma Fettermann, Flora Gomes, Josefina Lopes Crato, Sana na N'Hada, Rudi Spee
Image and sound (2012-15): Suleimane Biai, Filipa César, Marta Leite, Nuno da Luz, Dídio Pestana, Benvindo dos Santos, Aissatu Seidi
Additional text and commentary: Anita Fernandez, Flora Gomes, Sana na N'Hada

The Revealer

Philippe Garrel | Le Révélateur

France | 1968 | DCP | 62min | MR: 14 years old

A woman, a man and a child. The adults hug each other or pursue each other, humiliating themselves. It is set in the woods, at night, in a house, with barely any light, on a road which crosses a leafy wood, at daybreak. The child watches them as they love each other, as they argue and as they sleep. He wakes them up and crawls in between them, wishing for reconciliation. Sometimes they go outside and they hide from an invisible threat.