Joy Of Man's Desiring

Berlin 2014
Forum
Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival 2014
Guadalajara International
Film Festival 2014

Joy Of Man's Desiring

A Film by Denis Côté

2014 - Canada - Documentary - DCP - 1.85 - 70 min.

with Guillaume Tremblay , Emilie Sigouin & Hamidou Savadogo

Language: French
Produced by Sylvain Corbeil & Nancy Grant

An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest and state of repose whose quality defies definition.

Berlin 2014
Forum
Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival 2014
Guadalajara International
Film Festival 2014

More Films

The Devil's Drivers

A film by Daniel Carsenty & Mohammed Abugeth

2021 - Germany - Documentary - 2.39:1 - 90 min.

In the southern West Bank, Hamouda and his cousin Ismail are among the Bedouin drivers who risk their lives smuggling illegal workers over the border. Between them and the destination, there is the desert - of which they know every inch - and the heavy presence of the Israeli military patrols. If they are caught, they go to jail. Yet only those fares can help them provide for their families, so they keep on driving and enjoying each day of freedom as it might just be the last.

Unfair World

A film by Filippos Tsitos

2011 - Germany/Greece - Drama - 2.35 DCP - 107 min.

Sotiris is a police interrogator in Athens. He has an obsession: he needs to be fair. He judges the suspects after his personal moral and against the law. With the intention to save another innocent soul, he accidentally kills a man. Dora is the only witness to the crime. She is a poor cleaning woman who leads a breathless life. The struggle to survive has made her unfair. The righteous Sotiris and the unrighteous Dora like each other. But love, honesty and justice aren’t easy to combine.

A Taste of Whale

A film by Vincent Kelner

2022 - France - Documentary - 1.78 - 85 min.

Every summer, hundreds of pilot whales are hunted in the fjords of the Faroe Islands. It’s locally known as the “Grind”, a spectacular and bloody tradition. International activists would like to put an end to it, so that these mammals will stop suffering. Knife in hand, the Faroese denounce the hypocrisy of those who eat meat without looking at what is happening in slaughterhouses and at the industries polluting our planet.