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My 2014 or 24 films by 24fpsverite

The official selection of the 24 films that marked the cinematic year of 2014.

The Act of Killing (2012)

Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.

Documentary, Politics, Venice 2014

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.

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Turist (Force Majeure, 2014)

Ruben Östlund dismantles the nuclear perfect iconic family as the predominant father figure fails to support his socially imposed gender role.

Yuri Esposito – Venice 70 Biennale College

This is the kind of comedy film that you should await from an emerging and innovative new director like Alessio Fava.

Des Filles en Noir (Young Girls in Black, 2010)

A different coming-of-age drama directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and inspired by Heinrich von Kleist's poems.

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Senem Tüzen explores if Motherland could be the place of reconciliation of past and present in an ongoing love-hate relationship between a mother and her daughter.

Ida (2013)

Paweł Pawlikowski tries to express everything that troubled 60s Poland but his aesthetic austere formalism surpasses the content.

TagJoshua Oppenheimer

My 2014 or 24 films by 24fpsverite

The Act of Killing (2012)

The Look of Silence – Venice 71

Turist (Force Majeure, 2014)

Yuri Esposito – Venice 70 Biennale College

Des Filles en Noir (Young Girls in Black, 2010)

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Ida (2013)

Jodorowsky’s Endless Dream

But the cinephile is…

Antonioni on Vitti

How to make a bed

Soft and Hard (1986)