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Mahamat Saleh Haroun leads Chad’s film renaissance

Mahamat Saleh Haroun, probably the only known director from Chad, prepares his upcoming film.

REVIEWS

Žert (The Joke, 1968)

Possibly the most shattering indictment of totalitarianism to come out of a Communist country - Amos Vogel

Boi Neon (Neon Bull) – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Gabriel Mascaro observes the social and cultural changes of Brazilian society as genders lose their identities and when a vaquero dreams to be a tailor.

Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)

Tengiz Abuladze by presenting a grotesque realism with a touch of subcutaneous self-sarcasm managed to bury all the fears that had survived for so many years in the USSR.

Algunas Chicas (Some Girls) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A rather obscure and off beat thriller by Santiago Palavecino that is set contemporarily in dream and reality.

Perfect Sense (2011)

A dysfunctional dramatic romance which takes place in an apocalyptic dystopic period directed by David Mackenzie.

QUOTES

Roberto Rossellini: Camera’s a ballpoint pen

The camera’s a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it’s not worth anything if you don’t have anything to say.

Jodorowsky on filmmaking

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles

Satyajit Ray on Cinema

It’s enough if you can make people think and feel - clearly and honestly.

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

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

Pier Paolo Pasolini – Sesso, consolazione della miseria!

Sesso, consolazione della miseria!