A day in the life of a small shop of car supplies in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Martin, the owner, and Rulo, his employee, face the trivial challenges of every day life : money, rats, romance and car crashes, in a handful of vignettes of daily routine.
Mona has just got hold of a brillant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil, who used ti run a pub before he found God and ured away all the booze. Tamsin is rich, spoilt and trying to live a life of seductive decadence. They meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship. Tamsin is tragic and fantastical, Mona, rough and witty. Tamsin is charmed and Mona is hooked, Tamsin and Mona want to escape their lives but Phil wants to save them and save everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous Phil back; the brother that she loved. Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him.
In this narration-less documentary, the family of Hong Sun Hui, a female worker in a textile factory, is taking us through an ordinary day in the country of the beloved leader Kim Jong II. The system of indoctrination, control and self-criticism seems both frightening and ridiculous.
Settled somewhere in nowhere in the south region in Russia, the film tells the story of people living in one of the most radioactive contaminated spots on earth. Unknown to a wide public, this region was repeatedly irradiated by different accidents of the nuclear facility Mayak, which was the first plant for the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union and which is still in operation.
Silvana, Maninho’s wife, first lady of the Vidigal shanty town. Maninho is a very popular drug dealer in the community. Silvana’s life is a mess because she’s found out she’s pregnant and needs to tell her husband.
Olympic Games in miniature. The scores, the podium, the medals… Everything, in the most famous swimming competition of the world… In the back of my garden.
On Dutch country is a farm. Sounds of chickens or cows are not there. It doesn’t stink to pigs either. There is no smell or sound. In the long low barns live 20 000 white rabbits.
Children and teachers having fun at school.
Tokyo. The Shibuya train station. At the end of the day, office workers and students pile onto a subway car. The expressions captured are bland and uninterested. A ritualised magic-show. The human activity of boarding an already full train.
It takes courage to love life, says Eva, and the pregnant 22-year-old should know. She has a low-paying, unre-warding job, a mother who refuses to see what she doesn’t want to, a father who is losing his mind, and a baby growing within her from a boyfriend who left her. Yet Eva loves life. And when she suddenly realizes that there is a little human being within her, listening to her every word, she decides against an abortion. Little by little, she begins to share her love of life with the child in her womb. With words, music and sounds, she describes the world to her baby, shyly at first, then more and more confidently. Her spirits rise even more when she meets and falls in love with the sensitive Michal, who is perhaps her guardian angel ‚ or a fallen angel. Just as she is reaching an inner freedom, she learns that her delivery will be difficult and that there is a chance her child could die. By now, however, Eva has found the courage to face every challenge: through her unborn child, who responds to her and urges her to go on ‚ for its sake, and for hers.
12-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a Mom. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it’s hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.
A young country boy, Adrián, tries to make his life in Buenos Aires. He moves into the modest one-room apartment of his cousin Nancy and finds a job as pin boy, putting up bowling pins and returning balls, in one of the few remaining manual bowling alleys in the city. His work schedule is exactly the opposite of Nancy’s but the brief moments they share are full of warmth and mutual respect. Through the connection with his cousin and the other pin boys he tries to find and define his own place in life and society. Adrián is someone who is very curious. He is eager to know and enjoys listening to the stories and philosophies of his colleagues. El Turco is a gem of a teacher and brings humor to the narrow workspace and the job. Nippur is a mixture of a hippy and a heavy metal fan, tattooed, full of dreams and contradictions. Daniel is a man who radiates serenity and kindness. Quiroga used to work in a mine, a job even worse than working at the bowling alley. Adrián, Nancy, El Turco, Nippur, Daniel and Quiroga might be going unnoticed through life and society, but all of them care and have respect for each other.
The death of a child triggers this collection of personal reflections on grief and loss. Phantom Limb is the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated. “
Today, 12-year-old Adipas is going to see his idol on television! Then, a short circuit suddenly puts an end to his plans. The only place that still has electricity is his grandparent’s café. However, before he manages to get there, Adipas turns the entire smal greek village upside down.
Xiau Wu is a small town pickpocket in crisis. A local cop is out to get him. An old thief friend snobs him since turning entrepreneur. And Mei Mei, the local Karaoke hostess, is stringing him along. A visit to his parents in a neighboring village could push him over the edge. In any case it’s time to Xiao Wu think about his future. The film starts out looking like an exercise in grungy social realism but gradually reveals itself to be something much more surprising. The eponymous protagonist is a scummy-but-likeable petty criminal, a pickpocket preying on visitors to Fengyang, the provincial dirt-town he calls home. But times are hard and getting harder: his best friend is suddenly a model entrepreneur and doesn’t want to know him any more, his family is falling apart, the leggy Mei-Mei from the local karaoke hostess bar seems to be stringing him along, and the cops are launching a crackdown on crime in the streets… The film’s turning-point is a scene in a public bath-house where Xiao Wu, alone, does what he has always refused to do in the karaoke bar: he sings his heart out. From this scene on, the film leaves mere sociology behind.
In a small village of the north called Rey Muerto, a woman runs away from her husband’s violence with her children.
It’s Saturday in a deserted and unrecognizable Buenos Aires. Six young people, hiding their loneliness and complicating their usual movements, search unsuccessfully for something to change or for a new sensation that may reveal them a direction. A couple used to their dull daily life. A girl who decided she wanted to be alone. Her boyfriend who is unable to accept the fact. A famous actor who is feeling uneasy everywhere. A girl who seems to be having fun, unable to see that she is bored in every instant. A melancholic comedy about uneasiness and fear.
The dawn of midsummer is tempting her from outside. She’s just going to break up with her girlfriend first.