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My 2015 or 24 films by 24fpsverite

The official selection of the 24 films that marked the cinematic year of 2015.

Berlin 2015, Drama, Thessaloniki 2015

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Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65

A low key coming-of-age drama that stands between the local Mayan traditions and their bleak impoverished lives. Debut feature film by Jayro Bustamante.

REVIEWS

Über die Jahre (Over the Years) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary

Nikolaus Geyrhalter creates his magnum opus as he observes the financial and personal downfall of the rural post-industrial Austria during an extended 10-year period.

Shell – Torino 30

A slow paced family kitchen sink drama directed by Scott Graham and set in the Scottish highlands. Winner of the 30th Torino Film Festival.

The Look of Silence – Venice 71

Joshua Oppenheimer's second strikingly profound and captivating documentary looks straight into the horror of Indonesia’s hidden past.

Ja Tozhe Hochu (Me Too) – Venice 69 Orizzonti

Alexei Balabanov's last and most personal film. An adaptation on Tarkovsky's Stalker myth set in Balabanov's provocative world.

Krš (Karst) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary

An experimental journey by Vladimir Todorović that explores the inner real identities which emerge in a rough and mountainous Montenegrin landscape.

QUOTES

Sogni d’Oro (1981)

Directed by Nanni Moretti

Solitudine (1966)

Scenes from the experimental short film Solitudine by the Italian independent director Romano Scavolini.

Żuławski on pleasing the majority

I don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Jean Epstein’s visual poetic realism meets Leos Carax's abstract elegiac poem

Ingmar Bergman in Iceland

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