Two synchronised swimmers perfom a series of choreographic movements below and above water. A film about weightlessness, an experimental piece of work that exemplifies film’s illusionist nature.
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It has been ten years since Abu Shukri and his family, have settled in a valley, in the middle of nowhere, far away from their hometown. Completely independent, they live on charcoal they produce. Only the father and the son are in contact with the outside world. The father goes to the village to sell the charcoal whereas the sun runs off to the village school. The mother and her two daughters incessantly burn wood. Abu Shukri, the father, brought them to this place against their will and they know that the reason why they left the village is also the reason why they can never return. The father decides to build a pipeline to bring fresh water to their rustic home. The women are suspicious and the son doesn’t care but the running water awakens their instinct of freedom and marks the beginning of the family’s explosive tragic downfall.
Nine years ago in Before Sunrise, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) two 23-year old travellers in Viena, met, fell in love and parted 24 hours later, promising to meet again in six months. Jesse is now in Paris promoting his novel that focuses on the encounter. Céline comes along to a reading. Afterwards, in the hour or so he has to spare before heading to the airport, they wander trough a sunlit and impossibly romantic Paris, talking. Both wer obviously deeply affected by their earlier encounter, and now, given a second chance, they both have to decide what to do next.
After being found in an intimate encounter with another young man, Perry is thrown out of his house and forced to survive on his own. As he struggles to hold on by working in a homeless shelter and trying to maintain a college scholarship, he is haunted by his homosexuality and becomes increasingly withdrawn due to his family’s rejection. As his friend Marcus is performing his new poetry for him, an eldery man, Bruce, appears seemingly out of nowhere and begins reciting verse to them. He disappears just as quickly and elusively as he arrived, before they get a chance to talk to him. In his library research for a class project, Perry finds a book about the Harlem Renaissance and recognizes a poem (Smoke, Lilies and Jade by Bruce Nugent) as the same one that the eldery man was reciting. They encounter eachother again at the homeless shelter where Perry works. He confronts Bruce about who he is and begins to ask him about the Harlem Renaissance. They go on a literal and metaphorical journey to the house that was known as “Niggeratti Manor” and Perry learns about the lives and personalities of Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Aaron Douglas. He sees the pride that Bruce exuded in those times in terms of being black, gay and unashamed. His pride and self-esteem begin to have an empowering effect on Perry as he gains a stronger sense of his identity. We witness the transformative power that they have on each other’s lives through their shared passion for art ans storytelling.
A character living in the red-light district of a Spanish city goes back home at dawn, after work and, while removing the make-up and getting undressed, recalls all that hapenned during the night.
Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracket night. When it finally arrives, Eddie and her family head ti the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of her first cracker and experiences a pivotal moment.
When an ambulatory TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the credibility of the police force drops to a nadir. Vowing to capture the robbers at all cost, the policemen in the whole city, some thirty thousand of them, are mobilized to patrol every possible exit route and city border. While on a separate investigation in a run-down building. While on a separate investigation on a run-down buiding, detective Cheung of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau accidentally discovers the hideout of the robbers. Led by the ultra-cool Yuen, the five-man gang soon find the building besieged by thousands of policemen. Cheung and his men have also entered the building, getting ready to take their foes out any minute. Meanwhile, in order to beat the media at its own game, Inspector Rebecca decides to turn the stakeout into a breaking news show. Entering the building accompanied by officers with wireless cameras atop their helmets, she promises to feed live footages of their operation to the media. The whole of Hong kong is glued to their TV sets, eager to devour the latest action in real time. Oblivious to them all, the building is occupied by yet another gang. Attacked from both sides, Cheung’s team suffers from serious casualities but Rebecca doctors her footage, reporting nothing but good news. Only when Yuen has taken some residents hostage and releases the close-circuit TV footage to the news stations is she forced to release the true footage to the public in all its gory details.
Czech Dream is a funny and provocative look at the effects of rampant consumerism on a post-community society. Filip Remunda and Vít Klusák set out to explore the manipulative powers of advertising in all it’s perversity by creating an ad campaign for something that does not exist.
Barbara Albert tackles an ambitious subject: the chaos theory, applied to the daily life of her characters. The filmmaker uses Edward lorenz’ famous “butterfly effect” to set Bose Zellen in motion. A butterfly’s beating wings set off a tornado above the Gulf of Mexico that causes the crash of an airplane leaving for Europe. A single passenger survives: Manu, a young woman of 24. We see her again five years later, living in a small town in Austria, working in a local supermarket. The circle of people around her expands according to the people she meets, deliberately sought out or accidentally encountered. This fabric of interweaving lives creates a constant flux of “cause and effects”. Depending on the decisions taken by individuals, destinies change, intersect, become entangled, tending as often towards happiness as to misfortune.
No one in the world chooses a place to be born. Some frontiers can be crossed just by stretching an arm. What’s the use of a frontier? The European Union is growing, but can a group of countries grow by shutting itself from other geographically contiguous countries? This film is made of pictures that we see daily on television, passing in front of our eyes like a formula 1 car, they were worked over, reframed, and tha action was slowed down.
Storybook characters Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Goldilocks, Alice, Dorothy and Red Riding Hood are in group therapy dealing with the issue that life is no fairy tale. When Clara, whose tale is yet to be told, joins them, she finds out that all women are heroes in their own stories.
This is the story of a housewife who wished to fly faraway but didn’t, perhaps, as she puts it, because she was born before time. She goes through the daily routine with the memories and songs from another time, that fills the soundtrack of her world.
In a desperate attempt to find his truth, Nick hunts down his deadbeat father for answers.
Starting from the end, we gradually get to find out what has happened to Eva, her husband and her daughter in a story about taking the consequences of our choices.
A curious and remote coastal research site becomes a vibrant and graphic testament to impermanence.
Cooperation and conflict between classic and computor animation. There are two different animation techniques, two worlds, two persons. Who will win?
Mogwai went to Italy to play a festival in august 2008. Mogwai didnt expect to have Adelia, the organizer’s grandmother, as a fan in the audience.
Winter in La Cienaga. After choir rehearsals, the girls get together in the parish church to discuss faith and vocation. Amalia and Josefina are sixteen. In between the discussions, they whisper secretly about kissing. Josefina is from a conservative provincial family. Not far from Josefina’s house is the Hotel Termas owned by Amalia’s family, where she lives with her mother, Helena, a divorcée, and the rest of her family. A chance encounter between Amalia and Dr Jano, who is attending a medical conference at the hotel, allows the young girl to at last find her vocation – to save a man from sin. Dr Jano will be caught up in a web of good intentions. The respected provincial doctor’s world is on the brink of collapse.