Grasshopper Film (Firm)
1) Futura
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
Following in the footsteps of a long line of documentarians, a collective of three Italian filmmakers known for their politically acute cinema Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden), Francesco Munzi (Black Souls), and Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) set out to interview a cross-section of their nation₂s youth about their hopes, dreams, and fears for the future. With today₂s political divisions, socioeconomic unease, overreliance on technology, and...
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson investigates his great grandfather S.E. Branch's 1946 murder of Bill Spann, an African American man, in Dothan, Alabama, asking questions about the culture that allowed Branch to get away with the crime without any measure of punishment.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Türkçe
Description
"This haunting, gorgeous documentary drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents bask in the camera's attention. A creaky-voiced woman confides her personal account of the Armenian genocide. A sweetly deluded pianist performs a composition before confessing his love. A blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own camera back at us. Shevaun Mizrahi's playful, immaculately controlled film finds hypnotizing...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
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Description
Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.
5) Buddy
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Nederlands
Description
In this delightful documentary about six amazing dogs and their heroic owners, legendary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann explores the close bond between animal and human.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Emphasizing raw physicality, craft, and in-the-moment fervor over exposition, Towards Mathilde, from filmmaker Claire Denis focuses on Mathilde Monnier, whose title as head of the Montpellier National Centre for Choreography sends her and an elite group of dancers through numerous, demanding performance pieces, each captured on sumptuous 8 and 16mm images by cinematographers Agnes Godard and Helene Louvart. Monnier's significant talents are a clear...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017: it's a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on every coast. The film pivots on the question of futurity: what does the future look like from where we are standing? And what if we are not all standing in the same place? The Hottest Society...
8) Los Reyes
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
Español
Description
The oldest skate park in Santiago, Los Reyes, brings together teenagers from very different social and cultural backgrounds. Chola is young and vigorous and spends her days playing with balls that she throws to the pools in which skaters ride. Football is an old dog, but beautiful and energetic, that obsessively accompanies Chola in this game. As Football grows old and Chola is left alone, the juvenile stories confront viewers with the rawness of...
Publisher
.Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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Description
Five centuries ago, anatomist Andr Vsale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering, and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.
10) Escapes
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Michael Almereyda blazes a wild path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher, a flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. A consummate raconteur, Fancher recounts episodes from his remarkable life.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for...
12) Spettacolo
Publisher
GrasshopperFilm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their issues: they turned their lives into a play. Every summer, their piazza became their stage and residents of all ages played a part - the role of themselves. Monticchiello's annual tradition has attracted worldwide attention and kept the town together for 50 years, but with an aging population and a future generation more interested in Facebook...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Portuguese
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Description
Just released from prison, Lea returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro's fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara's women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of...
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