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Alien conspiracies, music from The Birthday Party and strategies to handle grief are some of the themes in this week's films at viddla.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog brought his friend/enemy Klaus Kinski in the film Woyzeck, where a young soldier submits himself to medical experimentation to provide for his pregnant girlfriend. 

Ii is just as funny, but a little more mature in When Sophia met Sylvain, Monia Chokri's film about the 40-year-old married philosophy professor Sophia who falls in love with the carpenter who is renovating their home. 

With Monolith we move into the sci-fi sphere, where a journalist starts a podcast to strengthen her failing career. Callers report of a strange black stone-phenomenon, and as the story plays out it becomes clear that even the journalist is in some way involved with the stones. 

Blackbird is a new edition of the Danish film Stille Hjerte from 2014, about dying Lily who gathers her three-generation family to say a final goodbye. But it turns out a little more difficult than she imagined. 

Award-winning Sea Sparkle is about a young girl who loses her father at sea. To handle the grief she convinces herself that her father was taken by a terrible sea monster. The film is a magical, quiet and modern saga of grief, loss and friendship. 

Nick Cave and his Australian band members are in focus in Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party. We follow the legendary band in their short and intensive careers. 

Have a good film week!

Published: 15/08/2024   Last updated: 15/08/2024