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.
3) Fourteen
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. It soon becomes apparent that Jo, despite her intellectual gifts, is unreliable in her professional life, losing and acquiring jobs at a troubling rate. Substance abuse may be responsible for Jo's instability, but some observers suspect a deeper problem. Over a decade, the more stable Mara sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to protect herself, but never leaves...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A Cape Verdean woman travels to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange, forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.
5) Kaili blues
Publisher
Grasshopper Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, two preoccupied doctors live ghost-like lives. One of them, Chen, decides to fulfill a family wish and sets off on a train journey to search for his brother's abandoned child, only to find himself in a dreamlike world where past, present, and future - as well as fantasy and reality - become one.
6) Days
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For decades the great Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang has been directing exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation, and the fleeting beauty of human connection featuring his muse Lee Kang-sheng. This is one of his best, sparest, most intimate works. Lee once again stars as a variation on himself, wandering through a lonely urban landscape and seeking treatment in Hong Kong for a chronic illness; at the same time, a young Laotian immigrant...
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
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Part of absurdist comedy, a part deep-seated satire of contemporary Australia as experienced by the young and affluent, the show follows twenty-somethings Ray and Alice as they navigate a series of increasingly awkward and comedic situations, from limp romantic encounters to bungled opportunities for professional growth. Once they have tacitly buried their vague ambitions, all that remains are half-hearted attempts with equally indeterminate results....
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Appears on list
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.
10) In my room
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
©[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lost in life and beset by a recent passing, Armin has nowhere to go and just as much to show for himself. Fate (or something like it) intervenes when Armin awakes one morning and discovers that seemingly all of humanity has disappeared, leaving him to his limited devices and opening the door for self-discovery but the gift of maximum freedom bears complications.
11) Keane
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome. One day he meets a financially strapped woman, Lynn Bedik, and her seven-year-old daughter, Kira, at...
12) Intregalde
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Romanian
Description
In a gripping tale of best intentions gone wrong, leading Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean (Tuesday, After Christmas) follows a trio of well-meaning aid workers from Bucharest on a food delivery mission to the rural hinterlands of the �Intregalde area of Transylvania. Guided off the beaten path by an elderly villager looking for a local sawmill, they find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar, dangerous place and facing the outer limits of their goodwill...
13) Araby
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano's house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook, and it's here that Araby begins or, rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano's life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.
14) Pacifiction
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high-end' establishment' as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return...
15) Il buco
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe's highest building is being built in Italy's prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore Europe's deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 meters below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders' venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighboring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino...
16) A bread factory
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From filmmaker Patrick Wang comes the story of a community arts center in a small town, told in two films. In part one, after 40 years of running the center, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple come to town and build an enormous complex down the street. Part two revolves around rehearsals for the Greek play, Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists...
17) 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.
18) Nocturama
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A group of tense, shifty adolescents prowl the streets and subways of Paris, learning through carefully delineated sequences that they're already well underway with a bombing plot. And then it becomes something familiar, yet altogether different, as these subversives tuck away inside a shopping mall and lose themselves in consumer culture.
19) Towards Mathilde
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
"A young man's disappearance is at the center of Ricky D'Ambrose's [debut] feature 'Notes on an appearance,' a film set inside New York City apartments, subway stations, bookstores, and cafés, as the supporters of an enigmatic and controversial political theorist embark on a covert program of indiscriminate violence and censure. But Todd and Madeleine, who search for the missing David, soon enter the company of strangers promising diversion and intrigue,...
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