AMPLIFY! Film Festival 2020 Complete Selection
Here are all of the films playing at The AMPLIFY! Film Festival, an exciting new UK online film festival. The films are listed in the same order as the online programme. In addition, on Wednesday 18 November it is The IMDb New Filmmaker Awards with FilmBath Festival.
From the festival website: "Blasting brilliant new cinema into your front room, AMPLIFY!’s online film festival November 6–22 will beam feature films, shorts, and industry events directly to you, wherever you are in the UK. Brought to you by FilmBath, CINECITY (Brighton), Cambridge, and Cornwall Film Festivals."
From the festival website: "Blasting brilliant new cinema into your front room, AMPLIFY!’s online film festival November 6–22 will beam feature films, shorts, and industry events directly to you, wherever you are in the UK. Brought to you by FilmBath, CINECITY (Brighton), Cambridge, and Cornwall Film Festivals."
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- DirectorLeo BirinskyPaul LeniStarsEmil JanningsConrad VeidtWerner KraussA wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.
- DirectorEva MulvadLea GlobMorten RanmarStarsSahandLeilaManiA poignant portrait of a family of asylum seekers desperate to start a new life, but stalled in bureaucratic limbo.
- DirectorBecky EdmundsA compilation of the webseries created for AMPLIFY film festival. Voice, sound, and archive film tell the remarkable story of Dick Perceval and his life in England during the mid 20th century.
- DirectorSamuel KishiStarsMartha Reyes AriasMaximiliano Nájar MárquezLeonardo Nájar MárquezTwo children emigrate to the US with their mother. Their days pass in a tiny flat waiting for her to come back as they hold on to the hope of visiting Disneyworld.
- DirectorFaouzi BensaïdiMahamat-Saleh HarounÁsa Helga HjörleifsdóttirStarsClaudio AbbiatiEmily BeechamHera HilmarComposed by eleven short-movies. Started in 2018, the project explore in a sensible and creative way the position of humankind and nature. The key stories illustrated by the eleven internationally recognized filmmakers reflect the intertwined relations between human society and natural environment that are aggravated by climate change on multiple dimensions and scales, hinting at possible solutions.
- DirectorAlfred George BaileyStarsFaith AylwardFelix BorrelliIsatou CeesayI STILL BREATHE is a documentary about a group of socially aware young adults who give extraordinary and deeply emotional testimonies of being black, mixed race and white in London, England. They react to the impact of George Floyd's brutal and unnecessary killing which has sent shockwaves globally. The response to this inhumane act has been an awakening in the collective social consciousness, and "Black Lives Matter" has echoed around the world. But what will happen now? Will power and privilege continue to turn a blind eye? Or will the new generation see what the current custodians have achieved for good and ill, and come together to right the wrongs of the past to bring in a new era of hope for the future? I STILL BREATHE is a statement of hope for the world. Sometimes the most profound messages come from the voices that are unheard.
- DirectorJoe LawlorChristine MolloyStarsAnn SkellyOrla BradyAidan GillenIn this intimate exploration of identity, trauma and power, a young woman seeks out her birth mother, inadvertently triggering a string of events which change both their lives.
- DirectorLaurent MicheliStarsMya BollaersBenoît MagimelEls DeceukelierLola, 18 years old, bleach blonde hair, lives in a foster home with Samir, her only friend. Impulsive and lonely, she is trying to get her diploma as a veterinary assistant. When her mother passes away, her father Phillip makes sure that Lola will miss the ceremony. Two years before that, Philip was throwing her out of the family home: at the time, Lola was still Lionel - Philippe is determined to fulfill Catherine's last wish: to be dispersed to the North Sea, in the dunes of her childhood home. Lola on the other hand is furious against her father, but she will not leave her mother alone in this last journey. So they take off together, both unwilling to share a car but determined to take Catherine home.
- DirectorZeina DurraStarsAndrea RiseboroughMichael LandesShereen RedaWhen British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she meets former lover Sultan. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
- DirectorPiotr DomalewskiStarsZofia StafiejKinga PreisArkadiusz JakubikOla, a seventeen-year-old, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It turns out to be the trip of her lifetime, where she tries to reconnect with her estranged father, comes to know a different world and changes her approach to life.
- DirectorMaria ArlamovskyStarsBruce DuncanAyanna HowardHiroshi IshiguroA contemplation on the strategies of men and women involved with the creation of humanoid, android robots. Robots that will perhaps one day expand the human body and the human life.
- DirectorRoger La PuenteLulú MartorellStarsKeith Haring
- DirectorThor KleinStarsPhilippe TlokinskiEsther GarrelSam KeeleyThe warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsSergio ChamyRomulo AitkenMarta OlivaresA private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
- DirectorVirpi SuutariStarsAlvar AaltoAino AaltoElissa AaltoThis captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
- DirectorJens MeurerStarsDavid BohnettScott BomsChris BonanosHumans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog. And the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world's last Polaroid factory - just when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. An entertaining underdog story of a very modern Don Quixote, shot on 35mm. And a sumptuous invitation to fall in love with real things again. (Like sending you a beautifully typed application form on nice paper, rather than this cold tech template)
- DirectorIna WeisseStarsNina HossSophie RoisThorsten MertenAnna Bronsky is a violin teacher at the Conservatoire. Against the advice of her colleagues, she imposes the admission of a pupil, in whom she sees a great talent. With a lot of involvement, she prepares Alexander for the end-of-year exam and neglects her young son Jonas, who is also a violinist and ice hockey fan. She moves away more and more from her husband, so fond of him, the French "luthier" Philippe Bronsky. At the approach of audition, Anna pushes Alexander towards performances more and more exceptional. The decisive day, an accident occurs, heavy consequence.
- DirectorViggo MortensenStarsViggo MortensenLance HenriksenLaura LinneyJohn Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
- DirectorNuria GiménezIt combines fragments of Vivian Barrett´s diary with footage by Léon Barrett over the 40s through to the 60s of the 20th century.
- DirectorLucía AlemanyStarsCarmen ArrufatLaia MarullSergi LópezLis enjoys one more summer with her friends. The town's lack of intimacy, enforced by scandalmonger neighbours, means she keeps her relationship status secret, but the end of summer arrives with an unpleasant surprise.
- DirectorEvelyn SchelsStarsMarina AbramovicSigalit LandauShirin NeshatMarina Abramovic, Sigalit Landau, Shirin Neshat and Katharina Sieverding have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and integrated them into their work, using their most personal tool: their own bodies.
- DirectorDavid OsitStarsMusa HadidMahmoud AbbasMohammad Ibrahim ShtayyehA look at the life of Musa Hadid, the charismatic mayor of Palestinian city Ramallah, who aspires to lead the city into the future.
- DirectorTim MielantsStarsKevin JanssensPierre BokmaAriane Van VlietA bereaved nudist campsite handyman finds himself on an existential quest as he attempts to recover his missing favorite hammer.
- DirectorBarbora ChalupováVít KlusákStarsSabina DlouháAnezka PithartováTereza TezkáTwo documentarians exploring the world of online sexual abuse of children succeed in turning an experiment into an act of social intervention.
- DirectorVesela KazakovaMina MilevaStarsIrina AtanasovaAngel GenovOrlin AsenovSouth-East London, in the multicultural neighborhood of Peckham, in a municipal building. A Bulgarian family goes into serious conflict with their neighbors due to abandoned cat.
- DirectorWeixi ChenHao WuAnonymousRaw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
- DirectorSiamak EtemadiStarsMelika ForoutanShahbaz NoshirSofia KokkaliThe search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.
- DirectorLeonie KrippendorffStarsLena UrzendowskyJella HaaseLena KlenkeNora from Berlin struggles with growing up and her own identity. Her sister and her best friend are only interested in fashion and social media. Nora tries to do the same, but it does not make her happy. Then she meets Romy.
- DirectorThomas BalmèsStarsPeyangkiUgyenAs the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, documentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its transformative impact on a young Buddhist monk whose initial trepidation gives way to profound engagement with the technology.
- DirectorJorge Riquelme SerranoStarsPaulina GarcíaAlfredo CastroGastón SalgadoAlejandro and Ana take their family on vacation to a remote island in southern Chile. The tranquility of the trip is disturbed when Nicolás, the local that ferried them across the water, disappears leaving the family trapped.
- DirectorAmjad Abu AlalaStarsMustafa ShehataIslam MubarakMahmoud Maysara ElsarajShortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
- DirectorDiana NeilleRichard PoplakStarsDonald TrumpMelania TrumpVladimir PutinIt explores the dark art of geopolitical spin-doctoring.
- DirectorRinio DragasakiAraceli LemosStarsNick CaveStefanos RokosThe filmmakers Rinio Dragasaki and Araceli Lemos document three years of contemporary Greek painter Stefanos Rokos' work on the making of his exhibition "Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 paintings 17 years later." His daily routines, artistic process, spontaneous inspirations, and his creative dialogue with legendary musician Nick Cave.
- DirectorSebastián MuñozStarsJuan Carlos MaldonadoAlfredo CastroGastón PaulsA '70s-set homoerotic prison drama based on a low-circulated pulp novel, tracking the sexual, often-violent and eventually murderous experiences of 20-something narcissist Jaime.
- DirectorFlorenc PapasStarsLuli BitriJonida VokshiGulielm RadojaA married Albanian mother and her pregnant sister try to find a man to play the part of the sister's husband before they meet up with their strict, traditional father.
- DirectorJoshua Bonnetta"The closing titles say THE TWO SIGHTS was "collected" on various islands of the Outer Hebrides from 2017-19, but what does the film gather? There are the images, captured on a 16mm camera, which survey all this ravishing landscape contains, taking in its rocky cliffs, beaches and plains, alighting on its flora and fauna and the houses and ships sprinkled over it, picking out currents, reflections and shifts in light. Then there are the sounds, recorded with the mic visible in the first shots, keening birds, the roaring wind, the crashing, gurgling, trickling of the water. In voiceover, a whole anthology of tales can be heard, narrated in both English and Gaelic, stories of dog skeletons, drowned villages, and family members passing away, although songs, silence and the shipping forecast are just as at home there. But like any great collection, it's not about the individual elements, but how they overlap, about how the crow hanging on barbed wire conjures up another story never told, about how the ripples seem to reverberate along with the woman's harmonies, about how each anecdote floats over the rushing air. Sight by eye, sight by ear, two sights that ripple and flow together."
- DirectorJan Philipp WeylStarsAshenafi NigusuMikias WoldeJoseph Reta BelayIn Ethiopia, two men are running to achieve their dreams.
- DirectorPilar PalomeroStarsAndrea FandosNatalia de MolinaZoé ArnaoCelia, an 11-year-old girl, studies at a convent school and lives with her mum, a 30-year-old widow. The arrival of a new classmate hurls Celia into adolescence.