ORIGINAL CREATION
All five episodes of Cinépistolaire, our original project of filmed correspondence between filmmakers, are now available. We could hardly be more proud. The correspondences are beautiful and waiting to be seen!
Ukrainian cinema
The film presents the Donbass region as a pseudo-Orwellian dystopia of endemic corruption, state-sanctioned discrimination, sycophantic bureaucracy, and unashamed media manipulation. There are no heroes here, because everyone is tainted.
Sergei Loznitsa
Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands
language: Russian, Ukrainian, English
subtitles: English
110 min
Homegrown cinema
Alexandre his suspended from his job at Canada customs for sex addiction. Back at his mom’s, who owns the Napierville raceway, he meets a young Icelandic female drag racer who’s a big fan of filmmaker André Forcier…
Philippe Grégoire
Quebec (Canada)
language: French
subtitles: English
78 min
Ukrainian cinema
Maidan chronicles the civil uprising against the regime of president Yanukovych that took place in Kiev (Ukraine) in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong, in the Maidan square, to the bloody street battles between protestors and riot police. Maidan is a portrait of an awakening nation, rediscovering its identity.
Sergei Loznitsa
Ukraine, Pays-Bas
language: ukrainien, anglais
subtitles: anglais
131 min
Homegrown cinema
A filmmaker’s personal journey to reconnect with her sister, a successful potter living in the ruins of Fukushima is interlocked with her spiritual quest of bridging East and West, feminine and masculine, shadow and light.
Kyoka Tsukamoto
Canada, Japan
language: French or English, Japanese
subtitles: French or English
77 min
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Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.
Shatara Michelle Ford
United States
language: English
82 min
