THE CINEMA DU REEL COLLECTION
COLD KISSES
Nicolás Rincón Gille - 2016 / Belgium, Colombia / 15’ m
Young voices echo in the outskirts of Bogota. Leonardo, Omar, Jaime, Estiven,
Diego…They are just some of the many…Left behind after the massacre...Read More.
DEATH OF THE SERPENT GOD
Damien Froidevaux- 2014 / France / 87 mts
Koumba is twenty. She was just two years old when she arrived in France, but
neglected to apply for citizenship when she matured.
When a street fight goes wrong, she is deported back to Senegal...Read More.
THE DOK LEIPZIG COLLECTION
COMMUNION
Anna Zamecka - Poland / 2016 / 73’ mts
When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes
care of her father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them Most of all
she tries to reunite the family. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home...Read More.
DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS
Dennis Stauffer and Norbert Kottmann - Switzerland / 2016 / 21’ mts
1984 – The home computer arrives in our living room and overruns a whole generation.
The computer splits society into “Digital Natives” and “Digital Immigrants”.
2016 – A group of senior citizens is trying to adapt to the speed of computerization in
order to find their place in the digital age...Read More.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQflR6FrxpE
PULSE
Robin Petré - Portugal, Belgium / 2015 / 26’ mts
One of Europe’s largest deer farms lies hidden in the hills of southern Hungary and
houses more than 1,500 deer. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first
caught in the forest and brought to the farm in the 1980s – and still today,...Read More.
vimeo.com/robinpetre/pulsetrailer
THE KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL COLLECTION
21 X NEW YORK
Piotr Stasik - Poland, UK, Russia / 2016 / 70 mts
"21 x New York” is an intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the
characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about
their lives, cravings, passions, hopes and dreams - sometimes...Read More.
http://polishdocs.pl/en/films/finished/1329/21_x_new_york
JUREK
Paweł Wysoczański - Poland / 2015 / 73 mts
On 24 October 1989, Jerzy Kukuczka dies during the Lhotse expedition. It was the
first time when he went to the Himalayas with money, equipment, and as a really
famous person...Read More.
http://polishdocs.pl/en/films/1533/
THREE CONVERSATIONS ON LIFE
Julia Staniszewska - Poland / 2016 / 24 mts
A series of conversations between a mother and daughter. The mother (66) is a doctor
and a devout practicing Catholic. The daughter (35) is an atheist and a mother to two
children conceived through IVF...Read More.
WALKING SPARK
Marcin Kopeć - Poland 2016 / 52 mts
Piotr is a former member of the Warsaw mafia, who decides to make a new start in life
as he is released from prison. But in his case, turning over a new leaf is not easy. He
comes across Magda, a visual artist who, touched by Piotr's tragic story...Read More.
http://polishdocs.pl/en/films/finished/1654/walking_spark
THE FILM FESTIVAL LOCARNO / LA SEMAINE COLLECTION
THE DAY THE SUN FELL
Aya Domenig - Switzerland-Japan / 2015 / 80’ mts
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for
the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the
experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives...Read More.
https://www.thedaythesunfell.com/trailer
THE SWIRL
Laura Herrero Garvín - Mexico / 2016 / 73’ mts
Pedro is a farmer who defends his feminine identity and his dreams; his sister Esther
strives for a better future for her daughter and herself. They live in El Remolino, a tiny
riverside community in Chiapas, Mexico, which is affected by strong floods every year...Read More.
INDEPENDENT ENTRY
BE’ JAM BE - THE NEVER ENDING SONG
Caroline Parietti, Cyprien Ponson - Switzerland - France / 2017 / 90’
Bé’ jam bé is a film-forest, a cry for action, a theatre of shadows told in the penan
language and set within the deepest jungles of Borneo, from the midst of which the
incantational song of the invisibles emerges...Read More.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv146fykrkw
SPECIAL SPACE SELECTION
SURVEY NUMBER ZERO
Priya Thuvassery - India / 2017 / 32’
Survey Number Zero’ is an ethnographic documentary on the making of salt in Gujarat,
a state which produces 70% of the salt in India. Despite its tremendous everyday
utility, “common salt” is usually taken for granted. And salt farmers are hardly the
heroes of history or mythology, ballad or legend...Read More.
MACHINES
Rahul Jain - India / 2016 / 71’
An intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic
factory in India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and
disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of physical
labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought...Read More.
