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Comedy, Drama, Tallinn 2015, Thessaloniki 2015

Hrútar (Rams) – Thessaloniki 56

Grímur Hákonarson creates a wry subtle tragicomedy set in the rural Icelandic landscape that feels exceptionally heart-warming while touches the verges of melancholic sarcasm. Golden Alexander at the 56th Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Making a film is one of the best forms of strip-tease show that exists.

Ingmar Bergman

REVIEWS

Interruption – Venice 72 Orizzonti

With his directorial debut, Yorgos Zois breaks the fourth wall as he is experimenting on how myth and art interrupt actual life. Or is it the other way around?

Le Magnifique (The Magnificent, 1973)

The instant cult French espionage parody by Philippe de Broca with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset.

Beli, Beli Svet (White, White World, 2010)

A low-voiced drama of characters by Oleg Novković a that follows a theatrical austerity and the dramatic Balkan musicals.

Poziția Copilului (Child’s Pose, 2013)

Calin Peter Netzer directs a powerful family drama of characters under Romania's post-communist corrupted society. Golden Bear at the 63rd Berlin Film Festival.

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Iveta Grófová depicts the bleak life in Bohemia that has gradually become Germany's poor man's Thailand.

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Hrútar (Rams) – Thessaloniki 56

Ingmar Bergman in Iceland

Interruption – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Le Magnifique (The Magnificent, 1973)

Beli, Beli Svet (White, White World, 2010)

Poziția Copilului (Child’s Pose, 2013)

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Roberto Rossellini: Camera’s a ballpoint pen

Pasolini e gli italiani

Béla Tarr on Filmmaking

Żuławski on pleasing the majority

Antonioni on directing