Nineteen years old and jobless best friends Xiao Ji and Bin Bin spend lots of time just hanging around. Xiao Ji puts the move on pretty Qiao Qiao, a dancer-model with a thug boyfriend. Bin Bin is not convinced the army may be his only way out. These young people represents the generation born in the 80’s, during the years of the politics of a son for couple, and that, therefore, never had brothers or sisters. For this nonchalant generation thet sees the future dictated by financial gain, it’s sometimes too difficult to resist the temptation of easy money. Especially when they don’t see the point of living past 30…
Untitled Sequence V I. I it”s the product crossed between the organic and the inorganic. On a experimental perspective Untitled Sequence V I.I is constructed in an evolution context, passing through different states in a continuous process of contamination.
Addiction can take many forms: drugs, gambling, sex and food are common ones. But for Justin Cobb, it’s thumbsucking. A brigh but awkward high-school teen, he wants to quit, but nothing works. He tries everything from putting ink on his thumb (a tip from his woefully uncommunicative father) to hypnosis from his New Age orthodontist. He gets so desperate that when a school psychologist suggests using medication to help him focus, Justins leaps at the chance, despite his loving mother’s concern. In a refreshingly original and humorous spin, the meds begin to work. But are they the answer or just a more acceptable form of pacification?
A poignant documentary that explores a woman’s unique take on her overweight and aging body.
On the opposite sides of the law, two man with parellel fate are about to cross paths. Yan is na undercover cop in the triads, recruited before he graduated from the police academy. A decade of hard work has planted him deep in the largest triad in Hong Kong. Ming is a mole in the police force, assigned by his triad boss to become a cop when he was barely eighteen. With the exclusive intelligence on his triad rivals, Ming has been promoted swiftly to head the Criminal Intelligence Bureau. Both men are feeling increasingly trapped in the inferno between good and evil; they are merely shadows with no identities. But on one fateful evening, all means point to an end: Ming is assigned to a police operation to bust none other than his own triad boss, while the police intelligence originates from their mole Yan, who happens to be the boss’s most trusted henchmen. As the operation unfolds, both sides realize there is a mole amongst themselves. To make things even worse, Ming is tranferred to Internal Affairs and his first mission is to ferret out that mole in the police force…
Infernal Affairs opens with Yan and Ming as young men in 1991 embarking on theirs journeys as moles for life, and then jumpstarts to 2002 when their pasts finally catch up with them, culminating in a climatic showdown in the finale. Set between the years 1991 and 1997, Infernal Affairs II supplies the missing link as to how and why these two Fledgling innocents will ultimately become a callous mole and an undercover cop with ennui. While Yan is embroiled in the family saga of a triad cartel inextricable tied to his origins. Ming is enmeshed in an Oedipal fixation with his boss’s wife. Meanwhile, mind-boggling twists and turns are injected into the plot that both shatter established presumptions and shed new light on the characters convoluted relations. Friendships fracture. Foes join forces. Nothing is what it appears to be.
Infernal Affairs III is presented in a parallel time frame, 2001 and 2004, delineating what transpires before and after the dead of Yan in the first film, leading to an ultimate showdown where the past and present converge and all hell breaks loose. 2004: Ten months after the murder of Yan, a new star, Yeung, has emerged in the police force. Suspecting that, like himself, Yeung could be a mole from the triads, Ming begins his clandestine investigation, only to find himself constantly shadowed by a mysterious cripple called Shen, that is secretly linked to Yeung. 2001: After working under Sam’s wing for two years, Yan finally gains his confidence by committing egregious crimes. His first big mission is to build up a smuggling network with Shen, a mysterious busissman from China. Little does he realize that Sam actually has his own hidden agenda, which will place him in great danger. Yan is sentenced to mandatory psychiatric counselling by the court. The brief encounters with Dr. Lee brings temporary calm to his disturbed inner psyche. When ordered by Sam to deal a final blow to Shen, Yandecides to betray SP Wong and go all the way.
A farmer is experiencing problems with his sleepdog’s work. But what should we do?
Haifa, 1979. On Wednesday night, Vivian’s seven bro-thers gather in order to persuade her not to divorce her husband, Eliyahoo. Eliyahoo would have liked to preserve the customs of the old traditional world of Morocco, from where they came. However, unhappy Vivian, wife and mother of four children, would have liked to live a new life in modern Israel. Hairdresser for friends and neighbours in her apartment building, and has cold, confrontational conversations with Elyahoo. Vivian and Eliyahu are estranged. Twenty years of mar-riage and raising four children together cannot alter that. A claustrophobic portrait of a loveless marriage held together in a vice of religious and social convention which takes place in Israel of the late 70’s.
Winter. 1979. The political and social changes that swept China during the 80’s are reflected in the musical group of Minliang, his girlfriend and their friends. The influences of the West (pop music, longer hair for men, television) and the adoption of more modern conventions (birth-control, co-habitation, abandonment of arranged mariages) begin to slowly manifest themselves in the group’s small provincial town of Feyang. With the mid-80’s shift in government policy, the future of the goup is as uncertain as the relationships among its members.
Heather wakes up feeling hungry, whilst her mum has the shakes. On a quest for something to eat and money to feed her mother’s drug habit, matters get out of hand, and Heather ends up paying a price she never expected. Heather loves her mum, but does her mum really know what love is?
A precious necklace. A marriage proposal. A theft. Mrs. Thief (Mandy), a prominent high-society woman and successful executive, pursues all things beautiful, especially invaluable jewels. That’s why she can’t refuse the marriage proposal if the great business man, Steve, when he offers her his family treasure. On the eve of the marriage, two mysterious gangs show up and steal his fortune. The wedding is put off and suspicion grows. Mrs. Thief believes her ex-husband, the famous and charming Mr. Thief (Alex), is behind the heist. A game. All the games. After following separate paths for a number of yearsm the couple meets again while fighting for a common goal. Mrs. Thief is certain her ex-husband stole the treasure in order to sabotage the marriage and earn back her attention. She is determined to use all means available to get him to confess. Mr. Thief, who insists he’s innocent, seizes this opportunity to reignite Mrs. Thief’s feelings towards himself. A game of cat and mouse, seduction and jealousy ensues.
Francisco, behave! I know it’s your birthday, you are thirty now, it’s carnival, you’ve dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that’s no reason to be so annoying‚Ķ Francisco, repeat after me: Up to your 30’s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve.
On the trail of Ten, Abbas Kiarostami takes us to the heart of a creative process of his films and reveals to us a complete body of work. An incisive reflection on cinema.
The Books of Hours are medieval illuminated manuscripts. Each book has a collection of texts, prayers and salms appropriated for certain schedules. As Horas do Douro is inspired in this medieval idea of inventory and annual registry and it shows the cycle of the wine and the vineyard and how it determines the life of the people of this region. What we want to show, by the recognition of the landscape changes throughout the different seasons of the year, is that this vineyard is a work of men, that the wine it’s a human thing and that’s the way it must be shown.
Prémio do Público Jameson
100 miles north of the Artic circle, people are fishing on the lake Torneträsk in temperatures of minus 25º Celsius. They sit in their arks – small, moveable cabins, no larger than 4 square meters, filled with mod cons.
A woman connects to the Internet. She not only embraces technology but surrenders to it entirely as she downloads her body and soul to her electronic lover. In this world of Pandora’s boxes, sexual desire and dehumanizing machine interwine till they’re finally and brutally disconnected.
