Philippe Ciompi Movies
- 2009

Once Upon a Time Proletarian
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Film shows the present state of China through twelve platforms, an old farmer, a middle aged waitress, a car washer, a weapons dealer, fish store...
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- 2022

Taming the Garden
Taming the Garden6.742022HD
Georgia’s former prime minister has found a unique hobby. He collects century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities...
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- 2025

Alarm Notes
Alarm Notes02025HD
A pioneer in sound recording, Ludwig Koch was suspected by the Nazis of complicity in the Reichstag fire. After taking refuge in England, he...
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- 2019

Look Then Below
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Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a...
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- 2012

Swandown
Swandown4.22012HD
Director Andrew Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair sail a swan-shaped pedalo from Hastings to Hackney in London in the build-up to the 2012...
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- 2018

I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth
I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth4.92018HD
April is released from prison after having been busted as an illegal sex worker. In the basement of a luxury hotel in Tbilisi where she works, she...
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- 2013

Late at Night: Voices of Ordinary Madness
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‘You have no choice about being here, you’ll have no choice about when you leave’ proclaims a woman in Xiaolu Guo’s latest...
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- 2019

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another5.82019HD
With an elephant’s tusk as the protagonist, the film meditates on the endless tactility of conservation.
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- 2016

Kawasaki Keirin
Kawasaki Keirin02016HD
In the industrial city of Kawasaki, on the corner of the street where my grandparents used to live, bettors of keirin — a cycling race...
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- 2010

Not Waving, But Drowning
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Not Waving, But Drowning materialises the experience of Indian refugees during their arrest and detention by the harbour police in Zeebruges,...
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- 2002

The Most Beautiful Man in the World
The Most Beautiful Man in the World6.32002HD
Lacey is a girl of about ten. On a lazy day, she watches some TV, rides her bike in front of her house, then explores a field across from her front...
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- 2016

To Bow Down
To Bow Down02016HD
Chaima, a 25-year-old woman of Maghreb origin, lives with her parents in a popular neighbourhood on the outskirts of Geneva. It's her day off, she...
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- 2008

The Sun and the Moon
The Sun and the Moon6.82008HD
'The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, is about two women’s terrifying encounter with ‘Otherness’ in the form of a man, abject...
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- 2018

Trees Down Here
Trees Down Here5.72018HD
In this short film of Cowan Court, which was completed by 6a architects in late 2016, Rivers has turned his camera onto the interactions between...
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- 2022

The Land Within
The Land Within4.32022HD
After years of exile, Remo, an orphan, returns to his childhood village in the Balkans. He must help his adoptive cousin, Una, with the exhumation of...
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- 2026

Dream of Another Summer
Dream of Another Summer02026HD
A woman's collapse amid urban ruins sparks an exploration of humanity's connection to physical spaces and a city's resilience in the face of...
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- 2018

Now, at Last!
Now, at Last!4.12018HD
A film of a sloth, using three-colour separation to show sloth time.
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- 2025

The Other World
The Other World02025HD
In south-eastern Spain, there is a wall separating two worlds: a healthy world, and a sick world, once deemed contagious. The sanatorium of Les...
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- 2002

The Great Reality TV Swindle
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In 2002, 30 young people gave up their jobs, homes and relationships to take part in what they believed was a new TV reality game show with the...
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- 2023

The Wonder Way
The Wonder Way02023HD
From her grandmother’s garden to California via the Mojave Desert and the cosmos, Emmanuelle Antille takes us on a journey to...
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