heritage

A Real Pain

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage)

Sat, 23 Mar 2024

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, landscapes transform, take on new meanings, and hold onto joys that will never be regained. The sea and the beach, once stages of happy summers, romances, and encounters, will turn into concentration camps or centers of detention and torture. This occurs across different times and places. In this piece, I embark on a journey through some of my works that explore the relationship between testimony, spaces, and time, engaging in dialogue with the beautiful film directed by Alejandro Segovia in 1972.

My Pastor Among the Thais

Wed, 13 Jul 1983

Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.

Mafia Mamma

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

A suburban American woman inherits her grandfather’s Mafia empire and, guided by the Firm’s trusted consigliere, defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.

A Good Year

Sat, 09 Sep 2006

Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Zeit der Erkenntnis

Sun, 23 Apr 2000

Stolen

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

A young woman struggles to defend her Sámi heritage in a world where xenophobia is on the rise, climate change is threatening reindeer herding, and young people choose suicide in the face of collective desperation.

Impetigore

Thu, 17 Oct 2019

A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.

I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope

Mon, 09 Feb 2009

In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.

The Long Gray Line

Tue, 04 Jan 1955

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

Stars in Your Eyes

Thu, 06 Dec 1956

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!

Temurun

Thu, 30 May 2024

After their mother dies during a violent break-in, two siblings move in with their estranged father discover their family's sinister heritage.

Shut Up And Dance

Fri, 03 Feb 2017

Suryabhan Tanaji Deshmukh, the sarpanch of Kharbujewaadi and an ardent follower of Shivaji Maharaj, tries his best to restore a decaying fort.

Ismael

Mon, 31 Dec 2012

Ismael, widower of his beloved wife Teresa, walks the streets of the city in search of cardboard, in his extensive travels he has confrontations with Juan - a mental patient who thinks he is a dog and with Luigi - the most famous baker in the city. , who always scolds her daughter, because she did not inherit his gift in baking. But the destiny of these people is about to change, thanks to a magical event that Ismael will unleash.

L'Héritière

Sat, 12 Jan 2002

After the death of her father, whom she never knew, a young woman finds herself at the head of a large company.

The Tower of a Forgotten India

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Exploring the politics behind architectural heritage, conservation and the state’s role as a custodian of culture, ‘The Tower of a Forgotten India’ follows the story of The Architect, a man desperately trying to save the nation’s past. A narrative of passion and madness unfolds within the Tower, a megastructure that reinvigorates forgotten buildings and fragments, reintegrating them into the city’s urban fabric. In India today threats to the country’s heritage come from every direction, including religious fundamentalism, thoughtless modernisation, the culture of collectability and political corruption—themes that this film closely examines. ‘The Tower of a Forgotten India’ is a modern parable spanning decades, suggesting that control of a city’s past is ultimately a fool’s paradise.

Just Me

Wed, 15 Nov 1950

Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of life. Things go smoothly until the day he inherits a huge amount of money. He first refuses it but changes his mind when he realizes that thanks to the inheritance he can help others. Even more enticing is the fact that he must share the big money with a charming air hostess. However once he deems he has done enough good he gives up the money left and resumes his old lifestyle singing along "Ma pomme c'est moi, j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi..."

Broken Palace

Mon, 29 Sep 2014

A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going experience once offered within those hallowed walls.

Wild Strawberries

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

After unexpectedly inheriting an old house in a remote Rhodope village from her 103-year-old grandmother, whom she had never met, Daphne Bello, an American woman with Bulgarian roots, is about to give up everything to unravel the mysterious past of her long-deceased father, Georgi, in the hope that this will help her rediscover herself.

Daughter of a Lost Bird

Thu, 25 Mar 2021

What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act, is on a journey to reconnect with her birth family and discover her Lummi heritage.