Film archive
Manas Manas
Marianna Brennand / Brazil, Portugal / 2024 / 101 min / Portuguese
Documentary filmmaker Marianna Brennand’s feature debut is the result of a decade of research into child sexual abuse in the Amazon rainforest.
Shoplifters Manbiki kazoku
Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 2018 / 121 min / Japanese
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. When their young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love and not blood that defines a family. Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes.
Manchester by the Sea Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan / USA / 2016 / 137 min / English
Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams star in this critically acclaimed drama from director Kenneth Lonergan, about a reclusive handyman who must face his painful past when he returns to his hometown after the sudden death of his beloved older brother.
Mandibles Mandibules
Quentin Dupieux / France / 2020 / 77 min / French
From the flamboyant French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux comes a sunny, breezy and quirky comedy about two friends and a giant fly, or, in his own words, a strange mix between E.T. and Dumb & Dumber. The director’s latest feature, Incredible but True, is on at Kinodvor this summer.
Manifesto Manifesto
Julian Rosefeldt / Germany / 2016 / 95 min / English
Cate Blanchett stars across 13 roles and film vignettes, reciting timeless artistic manifestos of the twentieth century, from Dada, Pop art and Dogme 95 to those of Andréj Breton and Jim Jarmusch. Rosefeldt’s soulful experiment bows to the revolutionary power of art and calls to action.
Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire Mannen som lekte med elden
Henrik Georgsson / Sweden / 2018 / 99 min / Swedish
A documentary portrait of the Swedish writer and journalist Stieg Larsson, the author of the Millennium trilogy, dedicated to his life obsession: revealing right-wing extremist movements and their strategies to come to power. World première at the Sundance Film Festival.
Critical Zone Mantagheye Bohrani
Ali Ahmadzadeh / Iran, Germany / 2023 / 99 min / Persian
The film was shot in total secrecy, without the permission of the Iranian authorities and using non-actors. It tells the story of one night in a semi-deserted Tehran, populated by lost and suffering souls crushed by the regime that stifles the spirit of revolt. Locarno’s 2023 Golden Leopard for Best Film.
The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion Manyeo
Hoon-jung Park / South Korea / 2018 / 125 min / English, Korean
A tense, explosive mixture of action thriller and science fiction combines the best traditions of Korean action-masters with the authorial touch of the writer responsible for I Saw the Devil and an extraordinary performance by Da-mi Kim, who plays a young but fiendishly skilful avenger.