Fifteen years after the barbarity of the Pol Pot regime, filmmaker Rity Panh returns to his homeland to make Neak Srê (Rice People). During the nearly four years of Khmer Rouge terror (1975 – 1979), tens of thousands of Cambodian children were killed, often in the most cruellest of ways.
1.5 million Syrians have had to flee to Lebanon. Their only hope for a lasting solution is to participate in a resettlement program. Two families are on the verge of departure for Germany. But as they take the final step, fate intervenes. One of the two families will not leave in the end.
Tracking Satyrs – this strange quest thought up by Sophocles – is reenacted in Poland merging the ancient and the current times, the real and the fantastic. Having fun blurring the representations it invites to observe a world of the margin.
Imhoof treats the central problem of missionary work in a dense and differentiated manner, transferable to almost every form of ideological export. ZURCHER OBERLANDER
Markus Imhoof discovered this story through the stories told by his grandmother. Very calmly, very affectionately he gets involved in a psychodrama as well as in an exotic flair: a clever, thoughtful, extraordinary film. HOFER ANZEIGER
In Burkina Faso, desertification is stealing land and emigration is emptying the villages. The women remaining in Kamsé devote themselves to building dikes and replanting trees to fertilize the area. They resist, refuse to give up land to the desert, and hope for the return of those who have emigrated, while jihadism rises like a new threat.
After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own memories he depicts the rough world of the dockworkers, another of those trades that has undergone fundamental changes as a result of recessions, modernisation and liberalisation. LETTERBOXD.COM
After obtaining their Secondary School diplomas, some young people plan to continue their education but are not sure which area to choose.
Ten year old Bila and his cousin Nopoko live happily in their Sahelian village. Bila is taken with an elderly woman, Sana, whom he calls «Yaaba», although the rest of the village treats her as a witch. One day, Nopoko falls ill with tetanus; her condition worsens. Nobody in the village, not even the healer, can help her – except, perhaps, Sana.
In this road-movie there is a melancholic, light, late-season climate. One breathes there at ease. TELERAMA, Isabelle Fajardo
A thin layer between fiction and reality, troubling and engaging… OBJECTIF-CINEMA, Claudia Collao
After its presentation at Cannes Classics, Hyenas was shown at Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, at the 56th Film Festival of New York, at the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, at the Institut Lumière in Lyon, at the Viennale, Mumbai Film Festival, etc.
