Bafici
Program
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The Portuguese filmmaker investigates spectators, ranging from Citizen Kane watched on a smartphone to a soccer match projected in a film theater, mixed with interviews to critics, filmmakers, and cinephiles.
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Due to a mysterious phone call, a man is forced to enter an abandoned country house. His encounter with a woman paves the way for a disturbing experience in which memories and dreams seem to display a narcotic kind of power. Based on the story by Machado de Assis.
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The Hong Kong master offers a cinematic and dazzling transformation of Sylvia Chang’s hit play Design for Living in a spectacular musical film about intrigues in the corporate world.
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A foray into the personal, mental and creative universe of a unique artist who, at 89, continues being not only an enigmatic figure for Russian culture, but also for culture in general.
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A film that aims to depict the hard road to social and work reinsertion convicts go through after their release. Narrated in first person by five inmates from the Rebibbia prison in Rome.
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The murder of actress Dorothy Stratten while he was editing They All Laughed was a devastating experience in Bogdanovich’s life. This documentary rebuilds that story of love and belief in the healing power of cinema.
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Unreleased, homemade films in Super 8 shot by Richard Nixon’s closest aids –and Watergate conspirators– offering an intimate view of the famous case involving the president.
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The Japanese filmmaker reveals the social issues in Japan through the stories of struggle of a provincial seafood processing plant’s workers.
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