""The temptation of hope keeps us here.""
First in “Film Letter” series, which explores unspoken emotions through a combination of archival visuals and personal letters that has been never sent.
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Maryam Dehghan
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Super-8 film by Alejandro Ballesta.
Mr. Lobster visits a long-lost friend.
Oliver, an elderly gardener with Alzheimer's, discovers a Super 8 film reel he recorded decades ago, during the early days of his relationship with Julia, his late wife. As he watches the images from the past, his memories blur with the present, and he finds himself torn between reality and the recollections of a love that still blooms in his mind. While searching for answers that never come, Oliver confronts the fleeting nature of life and the beauty of memories that withstand the passage of time.
When teenage siblings shelter in their grandmother’s abandoned house from an exterior contamination, Opaline slips into her interior self. Shot in gritty black-and-white Super 8, the film takes us into a grungy spiral of dreams and paranoia.
A Cine-Poem. A journey through Paris. A memory film. Three stories, dedicated to one pioneer of cinema.
West Germany, Christmas Eve, 1971. 7-year-old Kimîa captures her family’s celebration through the lens of her Super 8 camera. But the mood changes when her mother, Hanna, discovers her husband’s plans.
Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to make pictures.
A painter with artist's block is sent on a disorienting journey after a mysterious painting appears in his home.
Concert footage of The White Stripes recorded in January of 2004, featuring tracks from the band's four studio albums as well as live favorites like the Dolly Parton cover "Jolene"
Every winter, a small town in Castilla-La Mancha called Luzón transforms into a little hell. Its inhabitants, dressed as devils, venture into the darkness and roam its streets with horns, bells, and smeared with soot. Una dança non sancta could have been just an anthropological documentary. Instead, it delves into the inferno with the town’s residents to participate in and immortalize this unholy ritual.
Peronoise is a being who tells us a story, who proposes the senses as currency instead of using Argencard or Mastercard, who presents and provides emancipation as a path, who establishes a Ministry of Hearing, who announces that we can dance, that it's a party!, whose enemy is Dr. Mutantis, the white male patriarch of holy causes from the Austro-Hungarian suburbs.
This Super 8 short film was discovered on May 22, 2024, at the Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute in Asunción. The film is the result of a workshop produced by the ICPA's film department in 1987, led by filmmaker Marie Louise Alemann, a pioneer of experimental cinema in Argentina.
EHHHH! is a Super 8 film edited in-camera and projected with a tape delay from two projectors onto a screen, which travels through the parking signs of Buenos Aires, where the letter E dialogues with a sound composition / phonetic poetry of voices saying "eh", a typical Argentine filler word
Analía and Andrés are neighbors but barely know each other. On the night of December 31, 1999, both are forced, for different reasons, to spend New Year's Eve alone.
Someone waiting, a letter arriving, an unexpected kiss in the garden, a doorbell ringing, someone on the street waving with their suitcase in hand. One-by-one camera montage. No reshooting or interruptions.
A woman returns, after a long time, to an empty house to confront her memories.
Can love transcend boundaries, trapping us in a seemingly inescapable cycle? The fantasy of being one with each other becomes flesh and destruction. A couple stripped of everything and everyone, fused to the point of losing their sense of self, faced with the possibility of a third party interfering, she decides to have an abortion.
The hands of Narcisa Hirsch, a nonagenarian, open another Super 8 film cartridge to load a camera. In what seems like a ritual of passing on a legacy, the grandmother and her grandson, Tomás Rautenstrauch, watch a film of a meadow that gradually fills the frame.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Grieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
