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Shadows of the country of the smile
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"Thieves"
Direction: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Japan
The film with automatic opening on Film from the South is also the winner of this year's Golden Palm Award in Cannes. The Japanese tranquility personified, Hirokazu Kore-eda, is also a regular in Norwegian cinemas. Two years ago, he was also guest of honor from the Film From South. Many were captivated by his completely unique and sometimes obscure look at small and big daily threats in the form of hidden emotions, secrets and dreams, which he had originally been conveying in such films as " As Father, Son "(2013)," Sisters "(2015) and recently" After the storm "(2016).
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With her new "Shoplifters", Kore-eda once again tackles a story about family ties, warm everyday life and bad things, so the film carries the bad conscience of the world on its thin shoulders. This is a family in the big city that lives free from theft and scams in the shops, and where everyone can help, children, sisters and grandmother. Or, how does it really arise with this seemingly obvious "family" past relationship? When the father and son take care of a five-year-old girl who is clearly abused by her own parents, the family relationship is shrinking and the "kidnapping" will reveal that this otherwise gay gang has secrets who absolutely do not tolerate the light of day. a little chaotic – almost as if Mike Leigh would be persuaded to do a social-realistic drama in Japan – Kore-eda tells a story in two long newspapers where the mystic is deeper than the consciousness of some of the characters.
It is poverty, child poverty, class divisions and a starting point where individuals can be sacrificed for profit. And yet, the film and its fate stories build on how thinking and humanism roam around fundamental qualities such as survival instinct and patience. A shaking film we can not help but smile.
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Unique music documents
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"Matangi / Maya / Mr. I."
Director: Steve Loverigde
England
Why M.I.A. a pop star who often ends up in the spotlight as much for his activism as for his music? The documentary "Matangi / Maya / MIA" provides many answers on how Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, or MIA, has become one of the most innovative pop stars in the world, at the intersection of the pop, hip hop, dance and electronics, while becoming one of the social activists on and off stage. The film not only documents an extraordinary life, but also how she, as the daughter of the founder of the Tamil Empire, is deeply involved in the victims of the war in Sri Lanka while becoming the One of the biggest pop stars in the world. The art student would become a documentary herself, and the material that composes this film is her own recording. She gave them to Steve Loverigde, a childhood friend and classmate, who brought them together with excerpts from concerts, videos, interviews and more, as well as meetings with M.I.A. even realized the great feelings and dedication that create a truly unique artist. The film tells the story of childhood and flight to England, through the artist's youthful debut and debut for world celebrity and the famous Super Bowl finger alongside Madonna. "Matangi / Maya / M.I.A" is something as rare as a musical documentary wise and politically engaged.
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Without a masculine look
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"Heirs"
Direction: Marcelo Matinessi
paraguay
"The Heroes of Paraguay" or "Las Heredas", which originated in the original language, were supported by Norwegian support provided by the South Fund program. This is nothing less than the first feature film from this country of South America. Here we meet Ana Brun and Margarita Irún as Chela and Chiquita, two middle-aged lesbians who live together and share everything but debt. When Chiquita's debt burden becomes so heavy that she risks being in prison, Chela becomes subordinate and introverted into this tense relationship, encouraged by her new maid to take on the role of other girlfriends driver. even though she was never allowed to drive. the car before. His journey is both literal and symbolic in a dogmatic class society where gender roles are entrenched and difficult to switch. Marcelo Matinessi is the director who created a beautiful drama about love, rebellion and the different wives of women in society. An important feature of the film's visual design is that it does not contain a single male gaze. The few men who come on the scene for practical reasons It also becomes a powerful symbolic film about the position of women in a conservative and patriarchal society.
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Kenya's borders
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"Rafiki"
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Kenya
"Rafiki" is one of the most popular films of last year, whether it is good or bad. It is a fundamentally cute, affectionate and charming movie, about two girls drawn to each other through classes and cultural education. In a European context, he is purely innocent in the way he describes physical attraction, but in his home country he has sparked enlightenment and threats of violence, imprisonment, punishment and the worst. The reason is that Kenya has long been one of the worst independent countries in the continent in terms of lack of recognition and rights of homosexuals and people associated with the LHBTI + community. The custody order to be discovered lasted until 14 years and the imprisonment was possible without a warrant for arrest. The law itself is a legacy of the colonial era and, while it commits itself to more acceptance and freedom, also legally through political organization and lobbying, it is conservative in advance and the traditions are so firmly established that gay violence is practically pursued. Director Wanuri Kahiu travels to Oslo following the screening of the film, which also includes a Norwegian company in production through the South Foundation.
Read the interview of the director of "Rafiki", Wanuri Kahiu: – How should I tell my children that I am being arrested?
Kusama's favorites
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"Kusama: the infinite"
Director: Heather Lenz
Japan / United States
From Kusama to Høvikodden. Photo: Mimsy Møller
This documentary will inspire in particular the mass of the public who goes to the exhibition with Yayoi Kusama at Henie Onstad Art Center in Høvikodden in 2016. The Japanese artist, almost 90 years old, has an incomparable artistic talent behind her. and, like everyone who saw her in Henie Onstad, it is not over. Colors are rare for her, the imagination knows no boundaries and she makes peas and color combinations that no one has ever done before her. But the "queen of peas" is more than countless rows of points. She has behind her a long life of artist, activist and icon, since the mid-century rebellion until the depression and resistance of settlements that nearly broke her in as an independent artist and human being. So late in life, a status of world star in the art scene that came much later than it should. The informative, entertaining and rich documentary of Heather Lenz addresses not only the art, but also her long struggle to get where she is today, ranging from a strict upbringing in a conservative Japanese hieraki to a high and colorful freedom.
Read the report of the Kusama exhibition presented by Dagsavisen at the Henie Onstad Art Center: pleasure and seriousness for the soul and the body
Chinese epic
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"Ash is the purest white"
Director: Jia Zhangke
China
Looking closer at an epic novel about China today seen from the perspective of difficult love, one does not come. Add betting sites, honor codecs, broken promises and time differences that put all this to the test. Jia Zhangke is one of the most prominent directors of China. He has created an exclusive cinematographic language describing a country and a people characterized by great upheavals. Until now, the most famous of the Norwegians is "24 City" and "A Touch Of Sin", but with "Ash is the purest white", he will be able to defend the followers of the great stories, almost in front of a novel that far exceeds simple terms of the narrative framework. It's in three parts, first as a genre film where gangsters are also cultivated by a young woman who falls in love with a gang leader. When she sacrifices and goes to prison to punish her punishment, the issues of guilt, feelings and the time spent by the settlements are thwarted. He never visits her as the years go by and when she goes away, she seeks a search that will lead her and us into a representative sample not only of Chinese society, but also of the mental instincts of the people. people – Zhao Tao, as in reality. Bride to Jia Zhangke, she is fabulous in the leading role of woman who falls in love with a gangster in one of China's small rural towns and ends up in the very big story where the smallest details are the most crucial.
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Kazakh poetry
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"Do you want to look at the stars?"
"Lessons of harmony"
Director: Emir Baigazin
kazakhstan
Emir Baigazin is one of the main guests of Film From the South. Three of his films, including the Norwegian film "The River", will be on display at this year's Venice Film Festival. We recommend an even newer title, the black-and-white melancholy bead "Do you want to love Stargaze?", Which, with its poetic exterior and interior scenery, is reminiscent of Andreij Tarkovsky's latest movies, just tighter. In this film, he explores not only the inner poetry of love, but the student in an abstract and dreamy story of class, coincidence, belonging and desire. A young man like a night out at the restaurant where he works helps an occasional young woman who has lost her debit card. In a beautiful landscape of black and white, alternating from the dense and rainy city to the surrounding countryside, a melancholy atmosphere creates the intimacy between them. They spend the night and the night together, wandering, talking, searching, as if the two knew that they could not last longer than the light breaks the magic and that no one can predict what will happen. In just over an hour, Baigazin creates a film poem that contains almost a lifetime of emotion.
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It is easier to relate to a purely thematic narrative, but much heavier thematic, are "Harmony Lessons", first major film success of Emir Baigazin. With Kazakhstan as a backdrop, he uses both the humanity, the evil and the uncompromising infinity of the homeland as the basis of a film about a boy who is the victim of the innocence of his comrades. Again, a chain reaction of violence occurs both mentally and physically. The school becomes the miniature of a society in which extortion, corruption and abuse of power abound in a given system, filmed in such a way as to leave an awareness. The irregularities are offset by a cinematographic language that is infinitely impressive and resembles what it was for regidebutant to rain.
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