The cultural scandal in the Manege in the distant 1960s, which was caused by the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's ban on the exhibition of avant-garde artists, has been forgotten. Today, visitors to the Manege Central Exhibition Hall are rediscovering the once-banned exhibition. The artists from the Elia Belyutin Studio are presenting their works without fear of being banned, with the hope that "New Reality," as the exhibition is called, will open a new chapter in the country's diverse art culture.
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age.
A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson.
Reiko, a female college student, was looking outside with her newly purchased telescope. She bought it impulsively, but since she had no intention of using it, she looked around the neighborhood.
Featuring Arnold and Ahneva from Wendy Clarke's One on One video series, this video dialogue deeply connects the pair through discussion of Black brother and sisterhood.
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Have you watched New Reality yet? What did you think about it?
