PALM SPRINGS – Oscar e Golden Globe Selection 2021

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While stuck at a wedding in Palm Springs, Nyles meets Sarah, the maid of honor and family black sheep. After he rescues her from a disastrous toast, Sarah becomes drawn to Nyles and his offbeat nihilism. But when their impromptu tryst is thwarted by a surreal interruption, Sarah must join Nyles in embracing the idea that nothing really matters, and they begin wreaking spirited havoc on the wedding celebration. “It’s tough for a film to be heady and hilarious, but Palm Springs does it beautifully.” David Sims – The Atlantic

Werner Herzog’s NOMAD: In the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

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Werner Herzog Pays Tribute to a ‘Kindred Spirit’, honoring the writer and explorer Bruce Chatwin in a stimulating and visually overwhelming documentary. Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with Bruce Chatwin, whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.

PALM SPRINGS – Sundance Film Festival

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While stuck at a wedding in Palm Springs, Nyles meets Sarah, the maid of honor and family black sheep. After he rescues her from a disastrous toast, Sarah becomes drawn to Nyles and his offbeat nihilism. But when their impromptu tryst is thwarted by a surreal interruption, Sarah must join Nyles in embracing the idea that nothing really matters, and they begin wreaking spirited havoc on the wedding celebration. “It’s tough for a film to be heady and hilarious, but Palm Springs does it beautifully.” David Sims – The Atlantic

PALM SPRINGS – Sundance Film Festival

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While stuck at a wedding in Palm Springs, Nyles meets Sarah, the maid of honor and family black sheep. After he rescues her from a disastrous toast, Sarah becomes drawn to Nyles and his offbeat nihilism. But when their impromptu tryst is thwarted by a surreal interruption, Sarah must join Nyles in embracing the idea that nothing really matters, and they begin wreaking spirited havoc on the wedding celebration. “It’s tough for a film to be heady and hilarious, but Palm Springs does it beautifully.” David Sims – The Atlantic

THE RIDER by Chloé Zhao (Best Director, Best Picture Oscar 2021 with Nomadland)

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Based on his a true story, THE RIDER stars breakout Brady Jandreau as a once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a tragic riding accident. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
“A delicate and tremulous thing, at once confident and gentle, lyrically composed yet as stoic as the American masculine ideal it so carefully deconstructs.” – The Front Row.
97% tomatometer!

MAY I BE HAPPY. Mindfulness in the Classroom and Beyond

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May I Be Happy reveals the significance of “mindfulness” practice in transforming the lives of young people.
Through poetic cinematography and sequences of teachers leading sensitive or boisterous practices to kids from different backgrounds, the film brings awareness to the benefits of mindfulness as a way out of violence and suffering, and as an attainable solution for younger generations.
Covering varying approaches to mindfulness by a range of San Francisco Bay Area programs, May I Be Happy reminds us of children’s natural capacity for wellbeing, resilience and happiness.

ESCHER. Journey into Infinity

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This vivid portrait explores M.C. Escher’s life and imaginative world through his own words and visions.
Escher’s artistic universe is explored as if we’re seeing it through his own eyes – he ‘narrates’ the film (voiced by Stephen Fry) via excerpts from his many diaries, letters and notes – and across a cornucopia of his works, many of which have never been shown before. While Escher recounts his life and his constant search to turn his thoughts and musings into visual form and to create the immaculate woodcut prints he could see in his mind’s eye, his works float on the screen, animation enhancing their innate movement.
His life’s journey also takes us to the places, such as Ravello and Rome, or the Alhambra in Granada, which particularly inspired him. We witness his dogged determination to master drawing technique – he considered that any schoolboy with a little aptitude would be better at drawing than himself – and his work’s evolution as mathematical concerns take precedence, leading him to ponder whether what he is creating is even art.

ESCHER. Journey into Infinity

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This vivid portrait explores M.C. Escher’s life and imaginative world through his own words and visions.
Escher’s artistic universe is explored as if we’re seeing it through his own eyes – he ‘narrates’ the film (voiced by Stephen Fry) via excerpts from his many diaries, letters and notes – and across a cornucopia of his works, many of which have never been shown before. While Escher recounts his life and his constant search to turn his thoughts and musings into visual form and to create the immaculate woodcut prints he could see in his mind’s eye, his works float on the screen, animation enhancing their innate movement.
His life’s journey also takes us to the places, such as Ravello and Rome, or the Alhambra in Granada, which particularly inspired him. We witness his dogged determination to master drawing technique – he considered that any schoolboy with a little aptitude would be better at drawing than himself – and his work’s evolution as mathematical concerns take precedence, leading him to ponder whether what he is creating is even art.