The films and videos commissioned by the Arsenal Institute for the festival LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! are now available for distribution. Works by: Tim Blue, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Christophe Chemin, Oliver Husain, Marie Losier, Guy Maddin, Ulrike Ottinger, Evelyn Rüsseler, Isabell Spengler.
Hot Docs: "The Oath" wins Special Jury Prize
Laura Poitras' The Oath has received the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs, North America's biggest documentary film festival.
arsenal distribution in Oberhausen on May 1st
we present a selection of the films and videos commissioned by us for LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH!
BAFICI: "La bocca del lupo" and "El vuelco de cangrejo" awarded
This year's Caligari Prize winner La bocca del lupe by Pietro Marcello has received the Special Jury award as well as the SIGNIS award at the 12th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI). El vuelco del cangrejo by Oscar Ruíz Navia received a special mention.
New in Distribution: "5 Lessons and 9 Questions About Chinatown"
"Aisheen [Still Alive in Gaza]" awarded in Nyon
Nicolas Wadimoff's documentary Aisheen [Still Alive in Gaza] has been awarded 2 prizes at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon: the "Buyens-Chagoll" Award, endowed with 5.000 CHF. as well as a special mention by the Young Audience Award.
Tatjana Turanskyj's "Drifter" at Cannes
Tatjana Turanskyj's debut Drifter (Eine flexible Frau) which received its world premiere at the Forum this year, has been selected for the ACID programme and will be presented at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival.
"4 Decades of the Forum" at Indie Lisboa
The forthcoming Indie Lisboa Festival will be celebrating the Forum's 40th anniversary by presenting the programme Four Decades of the Forum. The festival runs from April 22nd till May 2nd.
The Forum at BAFICI
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Forum, the Buenos Aires Festival de Cine Independiente (BAFICI) will be showing a programme consisting of brand new as well as older films that have been shown at the Forum.
Liverpool
Farrel, a sailor on a container ship, goes ashore to visit his mother after many years at sea. He travels through the snow-covered expanses of the Tierra del Fuego in icy temperatures to reach the isolated village of his birth. Taciturn and introverted, he wanders through the wilderness as the mountains rise alongside him, a slow and hesitant return. When he arrives at his childhood home, there is no joyful welcome but rather a surprising encounter: the family has a new addition.