Un Unidentified Flying Man was broadcast on TV news. A guy disappeared leaving a mysterious world Flying Magic. His four fellows find a mysterious picture book in his room. The title of the picture book is Flying…
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An ogre has a wife. She makes his meals but is a vegetarian; he would like to repudiate her in order to marry a Milady, whom he holds prisoner in a chapel…
Desde la Memoria are recollections of Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship. Excerpts from interviews with contemporary witnesses, alienated archive material and pictures of today’s Spanish day-today life have been merged into an experimental montage. Picture and sound fragments are associatively related, evoking – like a collective stream of memories – the misery in times of war and oppression.
Paris, today. A corrupt Businessman, Edgard returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals: his tormented son Simon, a young 2nd lonely composer, Benjamin, and Louise. In the process, four lives will interwine in an uncanny fashion.
In Upstate New York, Irene struggles to raise two sons, keep her stale marriage together and manage a secret cocaine habit. Isolated by the strip malls and dying small towns that define the area, Irene’s not sure when she went from high school partying to skimming off the grocery money to supply her growing habit – but it’s about to end abruptly. Desperate to alter her life, she puts herself in rehab, hoping that she can turn around the world she has made with her husband, Steve. But once she’s back home the distance between them seems to have grown and Irene ends up falling into an incendiary affair with Bob, a nurse and former addict that she met at rehab. His attention and affection awakens her pushed aside life, but all too soon she realizes they have more in common than she bargained for.
TOBIS Award for Best Portuguese Film
Every morning millions of battles are being fought in front of the bathroom mirrors across the planet. Smooth skin, white teeth, perfect proportions. We are all trying to beat nature forces and look better. For our hero, it’s usually an easy conquest, but one day something is different and he encounters unexpected problems with a stubborn hair.
Within a winding Edinburgh stairwell, a frail old man struggles to make his way up the many flights of stairs to reach the summit.
A stranger on a bicycle is roaming the empty countryside. He is trying to find a solitary house – his family inheritance. The locals are suspicious of each other and every stranger that enters their world. They ostracise everybody who defies their unwritten laws. This is what happens to a fifteen-year old girl who is brutally murdered on that day.
One Sunday morning Jacob, a middle age man, treis to tell his wife about a dream he had during the night. The city had it’s usual French charm, but the only thing he could think about was that the Eiffel Tower was nowhere to be found.
After witnessing the deaths of his mother and sister as a child, Sang-hoon grew up with rage and hatred towards his father who was responsible for their deaths. The shadow of his past overrules his present. One day, he meets a high school girl, Yeon-hee, who is also having a tough life after her mother’s death four years ago. Without realizing how their lives may be connected, Sang-hoon and Yeon-hee share some moments of relief and escape from brutal physical and emotional abuse and pain they face everyday.
Gowanus, Brooklyn: where a 12-year-old girl, who has discovered her teacher’s secret life, is compelled to investigate further.
Leroy, a 16 year old African-German, is too German to be black. His life gets complicated when he meets the skinheaded brothers of his girlfriend Eva.
In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the las inhabitants who haunt the deserted village. They seem to be waiting apathetically for their end and resemble the old boat abandoned on the shore. Il Dono is the story of those who have left, told by those who have stayed; a tale of disaster and exodus.
Painting is movement. Mid flight between the tool and the canvas. Oïo unconvers the driving forces of nature and reivents the world in the flow of the paint: This short film is an experience bringing together abstract painting and the cinematographic form into moveable work of art: a cinepainting. “
Love, treason, revenge and… Zombies!
Paavo is forced to sell handkerchiefs on the street to get money for his bitter and tired father. At home Paavo escapes is harsh reality by drawing pictures of happier times and thoughts. One day three old ladies with runny noses give Paavo crayons instead of money for his handkerchiefs… and Dad gets mad.
Experimental portrait of the city as an experimental in itself: Images are too intense and noises are something brutal.