Several men from different backgrounds and with different professions are preparing, in silence and separately, for a mysterious meeting, which will take place at a height, on a tall building, as in American police thrillers. It is not clear their relationship, nor why they end up dueling spectacularly through interwar Bucharest (which seems), but the clash is very serious.
A young railwayman, played by Florin Zamfirescu, is preparing for a meeting, in a humble hotel room, with a girl we never see, because he never arrives. The film made by Dan Pia presents in detail the ritual of the protagonist so excited by the prospect of the future adventure, and the jazz music that accompanies his movements creates a very invigorating atmosphere, sending to...
Open City Documentary Festival 2023
Monangambé deals with the torture of an Angolan resistance sympathiser by the Portuguese army.
Diálogo con el Che (Dialogue with Che, 1968, newly restored, 53’), starring Taylor Mead and Rolando Pea, is a legendary film by queer Nuyorican artist José Rodriguez Soltero that parodies Hollywood portrayals of the revolutionary hero. Presented at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals in 1969.