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Given his own limited abilities and the present danger of physical injury, filmmaker Nikita Diakur decides to teach his computer-generated avatar to do a backflip; what follows is priceless.

Director
Cast

Nikita Diakur

Credits
Country of Origin

Germany/France

Year

2022

Language

English

Film Contact
12 min

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The Goldman Case

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115 min

In 1976, Jewish radical Pierre Goldman was facing the death penalty, accused of committing a double murder during an armed robbery. Goldman admitted to a string of similar robberies, but denied murder. Instead, he put the cops on trial.

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His Three Daughters

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101 min

Three sisters -- Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olson, and Natasha Lyonne -- congregate to attend the final few days of their father's life. They bring with them years of barely-repressed jealousy and resentment, as well as wildly different personalities.

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Filtration: Three Colours: Blue

Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. Presented by Devan Scott
140 min

Directly filtering the image that comes into a lens allows cinematographers to vastly alter how a scene looks and feels. We'll analyze the radical ways Kieslowski's closet collaborator, Slawomir Idziak, editorializes in such films as Three Colours: Blue.

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Green Border

Dir. Agnieszka Holland
147 min

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Lyd

Dir. Rami Younis & Sarah Ema Friedland
78 min

Lyd is the Arab name for 5000-year-old town that is now the Israeli city of Lod. Made by a Palestinian and a Jewish American, this creative non-fiction film excavates the history of this place leading to a detailed examination of the events of 1948.

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Amadeus

Dir. Miloš Forman
161 min

In which the celebrated court composer Salieri welcomes a much ballyhooed young prodigy to Vienna. To his dismay, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an impudent, callow upstart. Worse, he's a genius. Winner of 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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Credits

Producer

Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Nikita Diakur

Screenwriter

Nikita Diakur

Cinematography

Gerhard Funk, María Guadalupe Anaya Alderete

ANIM

Nikita Diakur

Editor

Nikita Diakur

Original Music

avia.ai, thunderkamp

Director

Nikita Diakur headshot, backflip director

Nikita Diakur

Nikita Diakur is a Russian-born filmmaker based in Germany. He is best known for his projects Ugly (2017) and Fest (2018), which have received critical acclaim at film festivals around the world. His signature style is dynamic computer simulation that embraces spontaneity, randomness, and error.