A lonely bear dad tells his story through a magic box: one that gave birth to cinema.
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A little and very nice boy spends his day trying to clean up the sun which is dirty… he finally manages to do so. Well, he almost does!
Even rhinoceroses love to dance!
How easy is it to bake a cake when you have eight arms? But this octopus will discover that her arms can have their ideas too — and that’s a good thing.
This is a cute but silly camel who can’t handle his itchy hump. But when he finds a basketball in the desert, he won’t even think about anything else.
A tiny pirate rows on his boat, and nothing can stop him, not even whales, rain or icebergs.
A tender film set in a South Korea represented as dominated by consumption and capitalism, but where the character Jung-hee is able to maintain a relatively strong self-esteem. Her unattached situation (she is not at university, nor does she have a steady job) leads her to want to visit Kim Min-Young, a former high school classmate, and resume their relationship.
Ten strangers wake up on a red-eye from Boston to Los Angeles, discovering, in a panic, that the rest of the passengers and crew have disappeared. So begins a novella by Stephen King, later adapted into a mini-series by Tom Holland, in 1995. Now, it is Holland’s TV show that is transformed and reconstructed through animation and collage techniques in this experimental film that enhances the themes and the actors’ performances. A hypnotic descent into madness.
This is the story of a kiss and an internal storm. It’s also a story about desire and the first time we’re close to someone we wish was closer.
A film made up of amateur and home movies, made on trips, by women from the 1920s to the 1940s, who also presented them publicly, with their own commentary regarding what was being seen on the big screen. Stephens curates images from private and public archives to build a vision of the female cinematographic gaze and its relation to the very spirit of the traveler.
As a result of a pandemic, Ico Costa leaves a camera with Ailucha and Domy. What we see is their daily life in Inhambane, where these young Mozambicans live their youth.
Squirrel and bat. The convergence of different worlds and times of day. Forces in the underground rule night and day, and much more. By accident, this regulated everyday life has ground to a halt. And thus begins the mutual journey of two solitary figures.
A documentary about the director and Kimi, a soul mate with whom she spends a decade filming the anguish and ecstasy of a generation repressed by an autocratic regime. There is room to portray the first love, the first heartbreak, and everything in between. Images of drug use, overdose, suicide that can be considered sensitive.
The Portuguese director brings to the big screen the only play written by Éric Rohmer, French filmmaker of the Nouvelle Vague, in a romantic comedy in which the theme is not marriage but remarriage, joining the “Rohmerian” formula of episodes scattered around four seasons. Rita Durão and Pierre Léon are two people that share a romantic history who find each other again and again, rekindling their passion.
A semi-autobiographical work by Václav Kadrnka and the third film in his trilogy about the “Absence of a Loved One”. The narrative involves a family whose father suffers a cardiovascular accident and is left in a coma, in a limbo between life and death. Mother and son try to find a way, against the doctors’ lack of hope, to bring him back to life.
An exploration of Portuguese emigration and its materialization in an object imbued with ideas of success. In this documentary, the director travels 2000km to people who have left Portugal in search of a new life. The car is the starting and meeting point for a discussion around symbolism, identity and community.
The beach of our childhood as a refuge for when things change. Laura tries to return to where she was once happy, but she needs to create a new home for herself.
A couple watch two friends on their way to a party.