RIO DE JANEIRO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
8 - 15 NOVEMBER 2025
5 - 7 DECEMBER 2025 (BRASILIA)
FREE ENTRY
SMALL, BIG AND FAR
Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer, is at a crossroads in his life and work. After a conference in Greece, he decides not to return home and heads to a small island in the hope of finding a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars.
Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer, is at a crossroads in life and work. After a conference in Greece, he decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars.
FICTION
AUSTRIA/USA, 2024
122"
DCP
PORTUGUESE SUBTITLES
CREDITS
Direction
Jem Cohen
Production
Paolo Calamita, Jem Cohen,
Executive Production
Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, David Frankel,
Scott Macaulay, Jem Cohen,
Ryan Kryvoshey
Road map
Jem Cohen
Photography
Jem Cohen
Sound
Jem Cohen, Leslie Shatz
Cast
Franz Schwartz, Jessica Sarah Rinland,
Producer
Gravity Hills Films, Little Magnet Films
Distribution
Grasshopper Films
The announcement of a fatal illness takes Irma to Greece, the kingdom of clarity, where she follows a journey dictated by the god Apollo and guided by the respective sacred places. Some twenty years later, Irma revisits this Apollonian journey. Between João Miguel Fernandes Jorge's short story (based on a personal testimony of that journey) and the director's experience, "Fuck The Polis” takes us to the Greek islands, between voices and seas, stones and dances, winds and temples, ruins and corroded gods... It is a film about a deep connection to the world, about a profound attempt to see the world around us, when history coexists with the present, our memories and our subjective feelings dance with the objectivity of the reality that surrounds us. Winner of FID Marseille 2025.
SHOW DATES AND TIMES
10/11 - 8pm *
MAM CINEMATECA
12/11 - 3pm *
NET RIO STATION 2
05/12 - 4PM
CINE BRASILIA
RITA AZEVEDO GOMES
Jem Alan Cohen is an Afghan-born American filmmaker based in New York City.
York. Cohen is especially known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes,
mixing media formats and collaborations with musicians such as Patti Smith and Fugazi.
Jem Alan Cohen is an Afghan-born American filmmaker living in New York City. Cohen is especially known for his
observational portraits of urban landscapes, mixed media formats and collaborations with musicians such as Patti Smith
and Fugazi.
