A series of human-like matches burn. Each head lites the next on a disturbing and stetic chain reaction. Through fire, they gain new life.
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She passes, he follows her. He loses her. The memories of other exits, of other meetings come to his memory. He finds her again. The persecution continues. She meets with another one. She hugs him. He returns, head down. She follows him… She also had a Shadow in the Soul.
A life in a suspended beat; in the search of will instruments, to achieve true freedom. Sérgio discovers his way to freedom.
Cosme, an easygoing cosmonaut with a turbulent live, finds himself roaming a backwater sector of a space with no gas and in for one heck of a surprise.
Underneath the gymnasium, lies the gloomy basement where the balls are stored in a small, dark, store-room. Definitely not a nice place for a 7 year old boy with a vivid imagination.
Bursting with idealism, Melanie Proschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city. Desperate to fullfil her hopes, Melanie intends to do everything the right way. Politely she introduces herself to her neighbours with a homemade schnaps. At her first day of school she gives a very ambitious speech for her colleagues. She wants to be a fresh breeze to the school. But her old established colleagues are just annoyed by Melanies new teaching methods. Her weaknesses are quickly uncovered. A boy throws a chocolate drink at her. It is not easy to start a new life. Loneliness appears as nobody has been waiting for her in the new town. But Melanie is not discouraged and gets in touch with her neighbour Tina. As Tina was recently left from her boyfriend, any distraction seemes to be good for her. But as Tina is the only person Melanie got to know she misses no opportunity to ring at Tinas bell with a homemade cake or to offer any kind of help. As her efforts become more and more urging, Tina begins to withdraw herself. Melanie starts to cross borderlines and entangles herself in a spiral of lies, fake hopes and self-abasement.
Santiago Roman, a rugged, 23-year-old soldier of the Peruvian Navy, returns home to Lima after years of fighting in the jungle. Combat-weary and searching for hope, Santiago is a member of a lost Peruvian generation ‚ his spirit scarred by futile wars with Ecuador and constant fighting against terrorists and drug traffickers. He quickly finds his native Lima an unwelcoming place ‚ his army buddies have taken to bankrobbing; the decadent club scene offers only noise and lights; prospective employers won’t hire him; his applications for credit are refused. But worst of all, Santiago learns that his friends, family, and young, professional wife have be-come decadent or distant ‚Äî and that they are, each in unique ways, unable to understand him. What escape for a discharged soldier, who returns home full of hope, but finds only disappointment and inner turmoil?
Léone is a forlorn disabled ypung woman who survives in the shadow. In the shadow of her handicap, of her leg and foot deformed by polio. In the shadow of “normal people” and her bonsais. She uses her small house to lookout the outside world, especially to spy on every move her neighbour Andréas.
Where has your dream gone?
Everything Was Life is an experimental documentary which utilises animation mixed with live action to explore the alarming practise of female genital mutilation.
Axel, aged about 40, is a doctor, but has given up practicing his profession. Instead, he lives with his sister and her children, leading a life without enthusiasm. Most of the time, he simply does nothing except existing. One day, however, he meets a young, pregnant woman. A relationship develops, a kind of love, and they live together, like driftwood temporarily clinging on to each other. But Axel’s movements are hesitant and soon he goes to visit an old lover. There are things that are not easily perceptible in human life, but which are deeply felt.
Is just another day to the dwarfs at the garden in front of the factory where they are made. But today, one of them will leave…
Onde day is like the whole life. This film depicts one day of an operating fabric. This film is about a human being as a part of the machinery world or a machinery world as a part of human world. Metal produced by people enslaves them and reduce their lives to pure reflexes.
When wedding bells ring from the other side of Argentina, one Buenos Aires family turns the event into a call to arms. An invitation to be matron of honor sparks grandmother Emilia to insist that her immediate clan join in a cross-country Winnebago ride to the wedding. What better way to relatives to come together? – except for the risk that their family ties might unravel. Sure enough, the journey has its share of car trouble and engine failures, and emotional, psychological and physical breakdowns follow in due order. Kissing cousins start taking the term literally; in an in-law rekindles a long-ago love affair with another family member; a tooth infection calls for emergency surgery in a nearby town. And the close quarters and extreme circumstances bring out nuances in each family members that turn the trip into a true test of character.
Hanging a painting on the wall, buiding a house of cards, doing the laundry and watching TV: the most innocent and harmless actions in the daily lives of four ordinary people. But of all the bad luck, these people had to live next to each other.
Is it possible to humanize a person at a callcenter? What if the phonecall has a time limit? The conversations repeats it self and there’s no place for comotion: – I can’t provide you with that information. – Why not? – Because it’s unavailable.
On Mexico’s northern border, adolescent Sandra tries to cross to the United States in search of the American Dream.
It’s a story of a brother and sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings invent a game that they call “mikles”: their very own survival technique used to resist the abuse brought upon them by their father and, at the same time, helps them to become more self sufficient.