exhibition premiere of the film KALI WAAL by Jasper Coppes (22 min., 2024) location: puntWG, Amsterdam opening: 25 July 17:00 - 19:00 opening hours: 26 - 28 July 14.00 to 18.00 public conversation Fiction as Resistance: 27 July 17:00 – 19.00 The film KALI WAAL combines fiction and documentary approaches [...]
Set in an industrial wasteland in the middle of nowhere, East of Noon is a folktale somewhere between The Arabian Nights and Ubu roi, in which a bunch of brilliant youngsters find ways to survive the autocracy of a childish tyrant whose currency is lottery tickets and sugar cubes. The second feature film by an Egyptian artist, this baroque and excessive film stands out within African and Arab cinemas, invoking the spirits of the “new cinemas” of the sixties and seventies.
Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu A Weti), a film by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, and Tolin Alexander, in collaboration with the Maroons from Suriname, has been selected by film collective Third Horizon to stream on Criterion Channel platform. Over the last decade, Third Horizon has established itself [...]
