A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only a...
鮭魚是密克馬克族人 (Mikmaq) 賴以為生的食物與收入來源,在文化上更具核心意義。魁北克省**於1970、80年代開始明令限制當地的漁獲權,引發族人抗議聲不斷,**於1981年動用上百名警察和保育人員,以催淚瓦斯及塑膠子彈突擊利斯蒂古吉保留區 (Listiguj) ,引起社會一陣譁然。本片不僅記錄下族人的抗爭心聲,更深入探討漁獲權爭議的歷史脈絡,甚至收錄了奧柏莎溫與時任漁業部長之間火藥味十足的對話內容。本片引起了國際注目,也標幟奧柏莎溫與NFB製片方關係翻轉的里程碑。
Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca's Kiss, which has developed an underground cult following over the years and is a favorite among opera and music lovers worldwide, director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these won...