Andre's Picks
I’d like to think I have a diverse palette when it comes to my taste. I enjoy everything from mainstream to experimental cinema and am usually game to watch anything and everything. I try to go out of my comfort zone as much as possible as you never know where inspiration may come from. World cinema is my low budget way to travel the world and allows me to experience stories and life from different cultures and perspectives, I hope my picks allow you to do the same!
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About Andre's Picks
I’d like to think I have a diverse palette when it comes to my taste. I enjoy everything from mainstream to experimental cinema and am usually game to watch anything and everything. I try to go out of my comfort zone as much as possible as you never know where inspiration may come from. World cin...
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Centaur
Indielisbao
Sarajevo Film FestivalFirst, a black screen with a woman’s whisper in the background. Then, a naked man with a horse-shaped head walking towards the camera. Aleksandra Niemczyk’s film Centaur begins obscure, almost otherworldly. Vlado, a man in his late forties, early fifties, strug...
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Mighty Jerome
Vancouver International Film Festival
From acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer comes the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada's most record-setting track and field star. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned interviews and astonishing archival footage are used in thi...
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Six Reasons Why
In a future where society has come full circle and man lives by the code of the guns at his side, a fugitive, a vengeful son, a killer, and a servant stand in a four-way face-off from which only one man can walk away. To the east lies seven boomtowns connected by railroad, and to the west is a Ut...
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Brief Story From The Green Planet
Berlin International Film Festival
ACID program, Cannes Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film FestivalArgentinian director Santiago Loza's highly imaginative, and consistently surprising, Brief Story From The Green Planet premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019, going on to win th...
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Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn
Osaka Asian Film Festival
Japan Cuts New YorkIn 1726, Sanchu Okayama, farmers negotiate with the feudal domain in order to seek exemption from rising taxes before infighting leads to suppression by the Samurai class. Banding together, the farmers prepare for battle. A young farmer, Jihei is ex...
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Diciembres
“Diciembres” blends together archive footage and fictional scenes – using a poetic style that viscerally recreates moments from the invasion." - Variety
Diciembres centres on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and a reconciliation among survivors a decade later in December 1999 when a photographe...
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Black President
Berlin International Film Festival
Durban International Film Festival
New Horizons Film FestivalMpumelelo Mcata’s debut documentary feature is an inventive and complex film looking at the life and work of Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiuarai. The film uses the artist's 2011 exhibition ‘State of ...
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Querencia (Homing)
" ...an inspiring tale about one particular farmer who is struggling to overcome a traumatic event." Cineuropa
Berlin Film Festival
Indie Lisboa International Film Festival
Jeonju International Film FestivalHelvécio Marins Jr.'s film centres on Marcelo (Marcelo di Souza), an easygoing cowboy a...