Film Finalists 2018 – Archivio RIFF

Anna

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 22:10:03 +0000

Anna, after years of silence, decides to reveal to a stranger the story of a love that she defines as unconditional. But what is love? For Anna it is the motive of her pain, her testimony will become her redemption.

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Arada

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 22:10:01 +0000

During the 90’s unrest in Turkey, a young punk rocker in Istanbul tracks down a cruise ticket to Californiaon the night of his birthday gig. Based on the director’s personal family story.

In 90’s Istanbul, Ozan is a young punk rocker who dreams of releasing a record in California. His father, Altan, is a former musician whose career was ended by a coup attempt. On the day of Ozan’s birthday, they get into a heated argument about Ozan’s future. Ozan leaves home to meet with his friend Deniz who tells him about a cruise ticket to California the next morning. Ozan and his girlfriend Lara set out through the city to house parties and underground rave party at a junkyard, to shisha bar on the search for the ticket.

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Pharmakon

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:20:27 +0000

“Pharmakon”is set in a new built, ghost town resembling, outskirt of Tirana, in the eve of an upcoming building market crash. Branko, a young man of 25, has recently returned to his hometown, from his studies in the United States, as his mother struck by an incurable disease has passed away. Branko’s life is controlled by his father, Dr. Sokrat, as he works for him in his pharmacy, a façade to cover dubious activities of the prescription drugs business in which Dr. Sokrat is involved. One of Branko’s main duties is to find appropriate apartment houses, for his father to invest his money in. It is a job he does reluctantly, like any other job. Branko leads a lonely life, until he finds interest in Sara, a nurse in his father’s hospital.

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Free Fall

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:10:14 +0000

Colombia, 2018, DCP, Color, 14' - Short film Continue reading →

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Decembers

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:10:00 +0000

“Decembers” centers on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and a reconciliation among survivors a decade later. Ten years after the brief but brutal US military Invasion of Panama on 20th December 1989, three estranged survivors are nudged towards an intimate reconciliation by the person they lost in common that ruthless night.

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La bataille d’Alger un film dans l’histoire

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:00:37 +0000

In 1965, three years after Algeria gained its independence, Gillo Pontecorvo began to shoot a film reconstituting the events of the Battle of Algiers (1957). The black and white newsreel-style film took the 1966 Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Effectively banned in France until 1971 in cinemas. Whereas Alger is the capital refuge of all anti-colonial fighters, the young Algerians identify with the legendary hero of the film, Ali la Pointe. In the 70s, for the spectators of the whole world, the film becomes the mirror of an epic.

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Fauve

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:30:43 +0000

Alone in the wild, two boys play around a surface mine. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants to have power over the other. When one suddenly gets caught in the quicksand, the debate ends. Taking proportions larger than nature, this game will not prove as harmless as they thought.

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Portrait Of Eva

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:30:34 +0000

Russian, 2018, Color, 14'10'' - Student Shorts Continue reading →

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Chicomadre

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:30:20 +0000

An old hit job is haunting Chico, an unorthodox Mossad agent. As his past is slowly killing him, he arrives in Jaffa, a mixed city at the heart of a crumbling middle east. Past regrets connect him and Robby, the Arab man he was sent to kill in order to acquire a mysterious notepad.

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Eternal Recurrence of a Deep Sleep

riff — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:30:19 +0000

Iran, 2018, HD, B&W, 22' - Short film Continue reading →

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