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Satyajit Ray on Cinema

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

Satyajit Ray

Documentary, Thriller, Torino 2012

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I.D. – Torino 30

The debut film by the Indian director Kamal K.M. where the drama of a lost identity meets a bleak thriller in both worlds of modern Mumbai.

REVIEWS

Saul Fia (Son of Saul) – Sarajevo 21

László Nemes masterfully recreates a Holocaust Inferno where you can’t escape and the only way to survive is through death. Special Jury Prize at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

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.

La Vie Nouvelle (A New Life, 2002)

Philippe Grandrieux offers a multilayered dream-like filmic experience through the most radical experimental film of the recent years.

Three Windows and a Hanging (Tri Dritare dhe një Varje) – Sarajevo 20

Isa Quosja directs a slow burning drama that is dealing with one of the most delicate and tabu issues in modern post-war Kosovo.

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.

QUOTES

those lacking imagination

take refuge in reality

Herz Frank on documentarists

The first rule of a documentary filmmaker is: Have the patience to observe life!

André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

The Ontology of the Photographic Image by André Bazin's Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (What is Cinema?)

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

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

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