2021 Contemplative Cinema

There are the images of before, the images of after and the letters. The images of after come first, they stem from the same surveillance camera in Wuhan, empty streets that only throng with people again on April 4th, 2020.

Didar is an unrecognized poet who contemplates a rebellious 19th-century poet, executed by the authorities.

A man who makes his living from his father's fruit garden, tries to get rid of an electricity pole that is intended to be planted in the middle of his land.

Un retrato en primer plano de la vida cotidiana de dos vacas.

A sprawling meditation on the choreography of bodies in Moscow's urban landscape, Detours depicts a new way of dealing illicit drugs via the Darknet, the layering of the physical and the virtual realities, as well as a poetics, and politics, of space. Taking place in sleepy neighbourhoods, among the concrete walls of high-rises, behind garages and amidst abandoned railroads, the film alternately follows and loses track of Denis, the treasureman who hides stashes of drugs all over the city.

A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.

Una fantasía que vuelve a contar la historia medieval de Sir Gawain y el Caballero Verde.

Un viaje espiritual a las tierras altas de Harar, inmerso en los rituales del khat, una hoja que los musulmanes masticaron durante siglos para meditaciones religiosas, y el cultivo comercial más lucrativo de Etiopía en la actualidad.

Seven hypnotic and erratic fugue-like miniatures search for answers.

1957. Hernando Alamada, Filipino vaudeville great and a former socialist cadre, fulfills the last leg of his performing tour on the Mayflower cruise ship. He knows that the Philippines is experiencing a bitter transition yet again; the much-loved and popular president, Ramon Magsaysay, suddenly dies in a plane crash. He arrives in his poverty-stricken barrio, his country's state and future burdening him heavily, and at the same time, a deep personal turmoil confronts him. He plods on an aimless journey. Akin to the Filipino 'bodabil', he finds himself on the gate of the theater of the absurd, a descent to burlesque, madness, to stark realities, and, ultimately, an ascent to his own redemption.

The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.

Una mujer de Escocia, mientras viaja por Colombia, comienza a notar sonidos extraños. Pronto comienza a pensar en su apariencia.

In a remote village in Southern India, Pedro, an outcast and a drunk, accidentally kills a cow and sets off a revelatory chain of events that put him against the entire community.

A Nigerian man moves in with four middle-aged Vietnamese women after his contract with a football team is terminated.

In the nighttime two lovers are quiet and too exhausted to look back, or ahead. The dust of the day hasn't settled yet but the present already feels as elusive as memory.