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THEME EXPLORATION

displacement and exile

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
As Far as I Can Walk
As Far as I Can Walk
2021 · Stefan Arsenijević
Krapatchouk
Krapatchouk
1992 · Enrique Gabriel
The Suspended Step of the Stork
The Suspended Step of the Stork
1991 · Theodoros Angelopoulos
Rocha que Voa (Eryk Rocha
Rocha que Voa (Eryk Rocha
2001 · Glauber Rocha
Xoftex
Xoftex
2024 · Noaz Deshe
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
1985 · Alexander Kluge
Moi, un noir
Moi, un noir
1958 · Jean Rouch
Toni Erdmann
Toni Erdmann
2016 · Maren Ade
La Habanera
La Habanera
1937 · Douglas Sirk
Someone to Remember
Someone to Remember
1943 · Robert Siodmak
A Separation
A Separation
2011 · Asghar Farhadi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Abderrahmane Sissako → Mauritania · Kiffa

Patient, ritualistic cinema where desert silence becomes a space for ethical reckoning.

Bahram Beyzai → Iran · Tehran

Cinema as archaeological excavation of personal and collective wounds through silence and gesture.

Lav Diaz → Philippines · Columbio

Marathon narratives where temporal endurance becomes political resistance and poetic refusal.

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