with director Nick Broomfield
Director Nick Broomfield has stepped out of his documentarian role to create a grippingly compelling film. Ai Qin, a young Chinese woman, borrows $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK illegally so she can support her son and family. Once in the UK she becomes one of 3 million migrant workers. [...]
Canadian filmmaker and cinephile Guy Maddin once again deconstructs and reinvents the history of silent film in this quasi-autobiographical, expressionist dream set in a corrupt orphanage run by Maddin’s parents. A house painter, Guy, (Maddin’s fictional version of himself) travels home to visit his past and his family, constantly traveling between his childhood and [...]
Julian Schnabel won Best Director at the last Cannes Film Festival for his stunning success in bringing the memoirs of editor Jean-Dominque Bauby (Mathieu Amatric) to the screen. After a violent stroke, Bauby finds himself immobilized by “locked-in-syndrome� and forced to communicate with the outside world using the only muscles he maintains control over—his eyes. [...]
Whilst most straight couples procreate spontaneously, motherhood becomes a cerebral act of planning and negotiation for lesbian couple Sasha and Maya. Cartoonist Sasha interweaves her own maneuverings for impregnation with her cartoon creations’ private lives in this gentle, wry comedy of conception. Tick Tock Lullaby is the second movie by independent British film-maker Lisa Gornick, [...]
with director Vivienne Roumanni-Denn
Vivienne Roumani-Denn’s film documents the final decades of a centuries-old Sephardic Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family. Based on the recently discovered memoirs of the family’s matriarch, Elise Roumani, as well as interviews with several generations of the Roumani family and a trove of rare archival film and [...]
