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 Box with 4 fiction films by Alain Tanner (LA SALAMANDRE, JONAS QUI AURA 25 ANS EN L'AN 2000, LIGHT YEARS AWAY, DANS LA VILLE BLANCHE) and a documentary on his work. |
 For Tanner, this film was an opportunity to return to a subject which transcends political and ideological frontiers. In the past, Tanner had entertained a “desire for the Atlantic, the wind, other places”, no doubt an expression of the Zeitgeist of his y | ||
 JONAS is a didactic film with no lesson to teach, an encyclopaedic film with no conclusion”, a film of freedom. |
 A documentary film on the initiation rites of an apprentice surgeon in the operating block at a university hospital. To witness the steps of this process is to discover a strange and foreign world in which we are transient guests. | ||
 Is it possible to contact our lost loved-ones in the hereafter? With this question at the back of her mind and her mute sorrow for her recently deceased father, the filmmaker embarks on a journey to open up the doors to the unknown world beyond. |
 Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum, is to be knocked down, changing the lives of up to 1 million people forever. When the bulldozers move in, anything can happen. | ||
 A car accident brings Anna, Gregor, Martine and Paul together. This meeting forces them to face the fact that their lives cannot evolve anymore. |