FLEFF 25th Anniversary Pathway: Films about Making Film/Art

By Rachel Schaff, March 16, 2022

This FLEFF Pathways list of films offers documentaries and narrative films from Chile, China, France, and the US. Click on the link on the title to read more or to purchase a ticket on Cinemapolis' Eventive Virtual Cinema platform

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All films are $10 per screening. Save money and buy a 5 pass for $35.  Even better, buy an All Access pass to all 25 films on Virtual Cinema and all 3 in-person screenings for $125. 

Purchase tickets and passes HERE.  Dive into the FLEFF 2022 catalog of films HERE.  Immerse in all 65 FLEFF 2022 events HERE. 

Click on the link on each titles for more information on the film, as well as registration links for talkbacks with directors, writers, scholars, journalists, musicians, archivists, and activists.

AHED'S KNEE (Nadav Lipid, Israel/France/Germany, 2021)

An Israeli filmmaker in his mid-40s arrives in a remote village at the far end of the desert to present one of his films. There, he meets an officer for the Ministry of Culture and finds himself fighting for his freedoms and his mother's life.

BLANCO EN BLANCO (Théo Court, Chile, 2019)

A photographer goes to the southern tip of Chile to capture the wedding of a powerful landowner. His client is absent, and as he waits for the wedding, which keeps getting postponed, he becomes obsessed with the young bride and her beauty.

NO DESIRE TO HIDE (Rikun Zhu, China/United States, 2021)

The documentary shows the ordinary lives of young people in China, with all their romantic problems, unfulfilled dreams, and existential crises interwoven into everyday dialogues and conversations with the director.

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM (William Greaves, United States, 1968)

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves shoots a screen test with various pairs of actors. A couple confronts each other: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, another camera records Greaves and his crew, and the crew occasionally dissects the process of making a movie.

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