Acephale (Firm)
Publisher
Acephale
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Français
Description
A portrait of 77-year-old Juliane Sellam, who is as full of life and vibrancy as the iconic Parisian neighborhood she calls home. Director Sofia Bohdanowicz, however, doesn't turn her camera on these frequently photographed streets (once walked by the likes of Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh) or attractions like Sacré Cœur. Instead, Bohdanowicz focuses on the daily life of Sellam in the pre-war apartment this French astrologer...
2) Yuli
Publisher
Acephale
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
YULI is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child YULI avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba. Despite his repeated escapes and initial poor behavior, the...
3) Murmur
Publisher
Acephale
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Donna has recently been convicted of "Driving While Impaired" and is ordered to perform community service at the local animal shelter. When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home and quickly realizes his companionship can ease her loneliness. In a futile attempt to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon in over her head.
Publisher
Acephale
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A strange and unsettling premonition prompts the sudden return of Doveed back to his hometown where he confronts the neglect of its past and his own spiritual crisis. In the wake of a childhood friend's suicide, he re-enters a religious community locked in a lingering standstill, ruined by the brutality of repression, and lost in the shadows of collective guilt. Meanwhile it is autumn, and the trees are shedding their leaves. The final verdict, which...
Publisher
Acephale
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Türkçe
Description
PHASES OF MATTER is set in Istanbul's venerable Cerrahpasa Hospital, a unique, state-run teaching hospital in Turkey, where the filmmaker himself was born and where his father has long worked as a doctor. It is a human, curious look at a place where life and death, levity and severity, poetry and confrontation go side by side. This immersive documentary passes through the hospital's darkened corridors from the physical spaces of morgue, operating...
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