Grasshopper Film (Firm)

A character study as well as a meditation on stasis, transition, and physical space, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors she occupies and the company she keeps.. A North American living abroad, Lilly aspires to shape an intimate and private place of her own while connecting to the world around her. When she receives a letter from home, it provides the conduit she needs to fuse her transient self with the...

In only his second feature, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur's classic I Walked with a Zombie into a reflection on his country’s colonial legacy.. A nurse, Mariana , accompanies Leão to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident sends him into a coma. Yet he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community.. Official...

In July 1974, 29-year-old television host Christine Chubbuck went on air in Sarasota, Florida for her morning talk show “Suncoast Digest,” looked into the camera and shot herself on live TV. The incident became a national news story and is rumored to have been the inspiration for Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning film Network.. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Greene's KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE follows a young actress...

A rapid-fire eye-popping and ear-pleasing study of textile patterns around the world. Filmed over five years, in fifteen countries, director Jodie Mack places textiles against surprising backgrounds, editing the imagery to a homemade pop soundtrack.

Does the Internet dream with our electric memories? What happens to all those countless photos and videos we upload? Featuring interviews with leading scientists and digital pioneers, IN LIMBO is a marvelous, poetic exploration of this new virtual reality – a meditation on time, memory and technology. Official Selection at **CPH:DOX**.

Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, political documentarian Zhao Liang's extraordinary, visionary new film BEHEMOTH details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation behind an economic miracle that may yet prove illusory. Drawing inspiration from *The Divine Comedy*, Zhao offers intoxicating and terrifying images of the ravages wrought by his country's...

From the Academy Award winning director of A Separation and About Elly, Asghar Farhadi’s FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY is a dramatic story of marital intrigue and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year.. Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a housemaid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving she is immediately thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife, Mojdeh, is convinced her husband is having an affair with a recently...

Legendary Beat figure Bob Kaufman considered poetry a key to human survival, an idea made all the more legitimate by the longevity it's granted: the things he saw, heard, tasted, felt, and, most of all, thought were preserved in his work. Embodying the spirit of those efforts, the new film from Billy Woodberry is perhaps the closest we can come to knowing the man and his time. The cumulative effect of AND WHEN I DIE is to understand a familiar, over-exposed...

Robert Frank revolutionised photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.. Official Selection at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.. "Rather than being a film about an artist, it's an attempt to show us what it's like...

This revelatory documentary from artist Dryden Goodwin focuses on four individuals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: an international eye surgeon, a NASA planetary explorer, a leading human rights lawyer and the artist/filmmaker himself. Goodwin's looking and implicit presence links the lives of these probing observers, exposing a kinship between those who live by the sensory rules of observation, a desire to decode in pursuit of knowledge...