Événement

Bronx World Film Cycle, Winter 2023 (PROGRAMME 19)

Miss (SCR/DIR Amira Géhanne Khalfallah, MOROCCO, 2019, color, 12:41. Drama). A spin-off of a feature film that touches on the French nuclear experiments in Algeria.

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skin deep an hymn to eros (SCR/DIR Angelina Voskopoulos. GREECE, 2016, color, 07:16. Fable.) Some words overwhelm you like an alien spirit and you surrender.... Its the words. Commonplace words making up uncommon sentences, strange words carrying an unutterable weight, words set one after the other so as to create images, feelings, little lights illuminating wide streets. And then theres also the magic. That inexplicable magic of some peoples words that you know to be right upon hearing them, you know them to be yet another key to one of many doors.

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Before Dawn, Kabul Time (SCR/DIR Tara Motamedi, USA, 2022, color, 14:00). Inspired by true events that took place after the Americans announced their withdrawal from Afghanistan, an Afghan prosecutor fleeing from the Taliban, seeks the help of an American journalist to evacuate from Kabul before the last plane departs.

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Lonra (SCR/DIR Marlén Viñayo, EL SALVADOR, 2020, color, 23:00. Experimental). Based on a short story by venerated Salvadoran author Salarrué mixing theater, puppetry and cinema, this work tells the story of Juana, a young peasant girl whose enjoyment of her passage to womanhood gets cruelly taken. Shot in response to an increase in cases of aggression against women during the pandemic by a collective of actors (NYC premiere. In Spanish with Englisb subtitles)