‘Over the Cinema’ covers new films by maestros and the hot ones in the news, giving us a great chance to be entertained. <Mogari no mori>, the Grand Prize film in Cannes Film Festival and the new productions by the veteran cine-artists, PAVEL LOUNGUINE and Jacques Rivette, help us to experience another level of cinematic experience. <Free Will> and <Avant que J'oublie>, which describe small details of sexual harassment, and Ulrich Seidl's <Import/Export> depart from real life situations. At the same time, films by Abel Ferrara and Olivier Assayas have acquired the path to popularity which SENEF has never been through before.  
 
 
   
Don’t touch the axe/Ne touchez pas la hache
 
Jacques Rivette / France / 137min
 
French General Armand de Montriveau leads his troops to a Spanish island. For five years he has scoured every convent in search of a woman he once loved.
 
 
 
   
Free will
 
Matthias Glasner / Germany / 163min
 
Theo, a rapist, has just been released from psychiatric detention. His fear of women and the profound, unfulfilled longing turn his life within normal society into an unbearable ordeal.
 
 
 
   
Boarding Gate
 
Olivier Assayas / France / 106min
 
Sandra, a former prostitute, is an Italian woman who lives in London. She has a passionate affair with Miles, a former financial big gun.
 
 
 
   
Mourning Forest
 
Kawase Naomi / Japan/France / 97min
 
In a small retirement home, Shigeki feels comfortable and happy with others. Machiko, one of home staff takes him for a drive.
 
 
 
   
Import/Export
 
Ulrich Seidl / Austria / 135min
 
In this film the focus is on two story lines which move in opposite directions. The First is about Olga, a young nurse and mother. She wants to get out of the country and decides to go to Austria.
 
 
 
   
Island
 
Pavel Lounguine / Russia / 112min
 
Somewhere in Nothern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives a unusual man. His fellow-monks are confused by his bizarre conduct.
 
 
 
   
Go Go Tales
 
Abel Ferrara / Italy/USA / 96min
 
Ray Ruby's Paradise, a classy "go go" cabaret in downtown Manhattan is a dream palace, run by charismatic impresario Ray Ruby, with expert assistance from longtime cronies, sidekicks and the most beautiful and ..