Al Barzaj [Between the worlds] is a poem about the halfway world, between the visible and the invisible, sleep and wakefulness... An inner journey through underground streets, secret gardens.

The people of Pankisi Gorge believe that all the important issues of their lives and deaths should be solved through mediation of a favored authority. Altzaney is a woman who interferes in other people’s lives and takes responsibility for it. She mediates between conflicting sides and the two worlds. Altzaney is the only woman trusted to take care of the dead.What makes her so distinguished and authoritative in a totally patriarchal environment, and what is the price she has to pay for it? Altzaney gives an insight into a unique community of Pankisi Gorge.

Workshop with Scott Barley

OVNI archives invites the Filmmaker with a double activity: a two day workshop and a film screening of his award-winning full-length motion picture Sleep Has Her House (2017).

Scott Barley is a British filmmaker and artist. His work has been associated with the Remodernist and Slow Cinema movements. Since 2015, Barley has almost exclusively shot his films on an iPhone. His films are primarily concerned with the anthropocene, nature, darkness, cosmology, phenomenology and mysticism.

In this workshop, Barley introduce us to his work and goes through his fundamental influences. The filmmaker reflects on his particular way of working as we enter into the night and darkness as the basis of vision.

Free Workshop with pre-registration

https://scottbarleyfilm.com

https://scottbarleyfilm.com

https://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/ovni-2019-al-voltant-de-la-foscor/232010

https://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/ovni-2019-al-voltant-de-la-foscor/232010

A film about a community that lives in a cemetery in Manila. Rural poverty combined with a terribly overcrowded capital explain why many thousands of families have taken to squatting in the city's cemeteries. Overcrowding has forced the community to build their tarpaulin and bamboo houses among the tombs and also out into the sea. The residents have not only made the cemetery their home but in many cases their place of work. This film reveals their problems, jobs, sense of community and hopes for the future.

Boujad is a personal and anguishing look at issues of separaton, independence and return. As director Hakim Belabbes chronicles his journey from his home in Chicago to visit his family in his hometown of Boujad in Morocco, his exploration of family relationships is self-conscious and at times painfully honest. We witness his most private moments with his family. Belabbes' film intimately explores the domestic spaces and religious rituals of intra-family relationships, especially when compounded by one member's break with traditional values.

A military helicopter circles in the sky like an evil wasp. Chaos on the ground after the attack. A fast-paced sequence - bleeding people, burning cars and confused soldiers. Subheading: From Beirut - with Love. A cinematic postcard-greeting, so bitter and cynical, it can only come from a city at war with itself. The only dialogue in the film reveals a surprising connotation: Beirut is Paris, or Madrid, or any other metropolis. The scene is set: youth without a future, bomb attacks, drugs, arms, soldiers. The postcard has arrived.

The police phoned. They left a message on the machine. They said he was dead. The video unwinds through stories of sex for rent, unclaimed bodies, cigarette burns, and other monuments of life’s long run from wall to wall. Cut the Parrot is three grotesque comedies in one: the stories of Gerry, Susan, and Albert. Songs of hope and heartbreak spill from the mouths of the performers. The order of impersonation rules.