Movies: Brechtian

A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover....

Inspired by the work of Bertolt Brecht and filmed in Porto's former industrial slaughterhouse, A Santa Joana dos Matadouros is a meta-cinematic essay about the labor market in times of economic crisis in Europe. The film explores the possibilities of...

Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves....

Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large, individual to collective, where do I fit into this?...

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Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives against the backdrop of the similarly doomed pre-Wende Germany and 2020s United States. A short-film adaptation of the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name....