Nathalie Alonso Casale

City of Poets (2024)

In a small, semi-utopian city, all the streets are named after poets. When war begins, new neighbourhoods emerge to accommodate the refugees. Now, the streets are named after soldiers. ...

Dearest Fiona (2023)

As a voice reads letters from a father to his daughter off camera, 20th century archival images from the Netherlands are shown. Fiona Tan touchingly explores what potential emerges when sound and image diverge. ...

Beyond Words (2018)

A young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland. ...

Ascent (2016)

Through a grey blanket of clouds, we barely discern the contours of Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces. 4,500 exceptional and diverse photographs from the past 150 years form the basis for Ascent. Made entirely with stills, it is a filmic experiment bal ...

History's Future (2016)

Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no lon ...

40 Days of Silence (2014)

This is a passage between two faces, each the same, yet different. Bibicha's face first appears in the dark, her eyes open and expression impassive, only her heavy breathing betraying the strain she feels. She will withstand the strain and take the vow of ...

Code Blue (2011)

Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voye ...

Hammada (2009)

Hammada walks away from home after an argument with his father. Will a special encounter at the river show him the way back? ...

Nothing Personal (2009)

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving h ...

Figner: The End of a Silent Century (2006)

Through her very real subject Edgar Figner, director Nathalie Alonso Casale offers us an intimate sense of the 21st-century Russian zeitgeist. A true alchemist, Mr. Figner has spent his life in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as a sound-effects artist at Lenfil ...

Siesta, la tetera y la rosa (1998)

A collaboration of Nathalie Alonso Casale and Axe-group (Max Issaev & Pavel Semtchenko). ...

Memory of the Unknown (1996)

Memorias sin batallas y otros muertos (1992)

Docu-drama shows the director on her demythologising quest in Aragon for the truth about the Spanish Civil War. The film is a surrealistic reconstruction of what her, in those days executed grandfather, has gone through. ...

Guernsey (2005)

Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to. ...

Sur place (1996)

A mysterious foreign woman who is staying temporarily in a house there. Who she is and what her secret is are both slowly revealed in the reconstruction of a story about passion, revenge and war. Paul Ruven's homage to the films of Marguerite Duras and Cha ...

The Act in Question (1994)

Miguel steals a trick from a magic book and becomes a world-renowned magician. However, the idea of ​​the public discovering that this great trick is plagiarized from a book eats at his mind more and more. ...