Children's Village(Forum 50)
It’s always been said how mainland Chinese children were born apolitical and apathetic. Zou Xueping begs to differ: with her third feature-length documentary, she offers proof the kids are alright…
The Hour of the Furnaces(Forum 50)
Produced under the banner of the film collective Cine Liberacíon, The Hour of the Furnaces is a piercing documentary, a powerful political manifesto, and a prime example of how cinema could play an…
Koyaanisqatsi(Forum 50)
Nearly four decades after its release, Koyaanisqatsi has lost none of the power which mesmerized audiences and auteurs alike – a piece of visually riveting “pure cinema” which led to Francis…
Monangambeee / The Fourth Estate / End of the Dialogue(Forum 50)
Movie Name: Monangambeee
A Tale of the Wind(Forum 50)
Having spent his seven-decade career chronicling wars and revolutions, Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens marked his 90th birthday with a project which seemed to be even more challenging than everything…
W.R. — Mysteries of the Organism(Forum 50)
Yugoslav Black Wave pioneer Dušan Makavejev’s much-discussed but rarely screened cult masterpiece makes a case — true back then, and even more valid today — of the connection between…
The Woman’s Film / A Bonus For Irene(Forum 50)
Movie Name:The Woman’s Film
Othon(Forum 50)
Based on a 17th century French writer’s rarely-performed play about power-grabbers in the Roman Empire, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first film in colour is as relevant now as it was…
A Sixth Part of the World(Forum 50)
Before A Man With A Movie Camera, there’s A Sixth Part of the World. Splicing together footage brought to him by eight film crews, Russian montage master Dziga Vertov’s 1926 film remains an epic…
Oh Sun(Forum 50)
Made with the US$30,000 he earned from dubbing the lines of black actors in US films into French, the Paris-based Mauritarian filmmaker Med Hondo’s directorial debut has outlived its modest roots to…
O.K.(Forum 50)
o.k. is the film which brought the Berlin Film Festival to an abrupt halt in 1970 — and sowed the seeds of the birth of the Forum the next year. Relocating a barbarous war crime committed by a group…
The Ceremony(Forum 50)
Just as its title suggests, The Ceremony is filled with rigorously choreographed rituals of all sorts: a wedding to a non-existent bride, a funeral of a tyrannical patriarch, the attainment of…
It is not the Homosexual who is Perverse, But the Society in which He Lives(Forum 50)
Rosa von Praunheim’s second feature, about the rite-of-passage of a young provincial gay man in a big city, was bashed by right-wing conservatives for its subject upon its Berlin premiere in 1971.…
Reconstruction(Forum 50)
Drawing inspiration from a real-life murder, rural poverty and Greek mythology, Theo Angelopoulos’ masterful first feature offers a glimpse of the style and themes which would eventually define his…