Ruthie and Or, a mother and her 17-year-old daughter, live in a small Tel Aviv flat. Ruthie has enn a prostitute for the last twenty years. Or has tried many times to have her quit working the street, but whitout success. The daily routine of the 17-year-old Or is an endless succession of petty jobs: washing dishes in a restaurant, cleaning staircases and collecting deposit bottles while attending high school whenever she can. Ruthie’s health is worsening. After an umpteenth visit to her mother at the hospital, Or decides that this time, things must change for food.
Based on the true story of a father who takes his son on a fishing trip in the untamed forests of Montreal, Nibbles presents the unvarnished truth about the pleasures of the road, the beauty of nature, and the unbridled desire for food consumption that lies at the heart of every family outing.
A man falls madly in love with his up floor neighbour. Moved by desire and jealousy, he is going to eliminate every obstacle that lies between them. Unfortunately things turn out as he less expected.
Ilegal Kick Boxing match for gambling is about to start at a nightclub. A Yazuka not only loses his money but also his temper. He goes rampage and fires his gun randomly. When the police crack down is imminent, the people in the nightclub have to run for their own personal reasons.
Told with rod-manipulated puppets, this simple story takes place in the interior world of an old woman after her death, and follows her granddaughter’s journey to understanding her unfulfilled dreams.
Stan works as a publicist in the commercial area of the town. One day, the sliding doors don’t open anymore in front of him…
The travelogue as a seismograph of the state of the nation: Niki Lerch’s One Year Later – Interviews und Radio follows a simple experiment to investigate the traumatization of the American public after the terrorist attacks of 11th September 2001. One year after the catastrophe, the director travelled up the west coast of the US and took random samples, sounding out the after-effects which 9/11 left behind.
Harvie Krumpet is the biography of an ordinary man seemingly cursed with perpetual bad luck. At the age of eighteen his parents are found frozen to death on their bicycles, just as the Germans invade and force Harvie to flee to Australia where he works in a rubbish dump.
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of woman’s reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.
Jed and Chloe are in their early twenties, in love – and mentally handicapped. When Jed accidentally causes the death of Chloe’s cat, which she loves almost asmuch as Jed, Chloe retreats into silence and loses her will to live. Convinced that there must be something else in life to give it meaning, Jed sets out to find it. Led to believe that a dealer, Max, knows the precious answer, a bond of friendship develops between them. Jed realizes that he, he himself, knows what he’s been looking for. Now he must hurry to tell Chloe. But she is in coma and when he arrives at the hospital, her bed is empty…
In 1974, at the peak of their talents and careers, some of the most celebrated American Rhythm & Blues and soul acts of the time, including James Brown, B. B. King, Bill Withers and The Spinners, traveled to Kinshasa. They came together in Zaire’s capital with the most renowned musical groups in Southern Africa, such as Miriam Makeba and Afrisa for a three-day long concert. Most of the American performers, emboldened by the African-American liberation movement, were visiting Africa for the first time, and they let themselves be inspired by their African roots.
A musical about a helicopter pilot who arrives at a hospital and dances trough the corridors with a heart transplantation of a woung woman, threatened by deportation.
In this twisted romantic comedy, Mortie falls in love with the beautiful corpess who pass through his morgue until a woman who is alive.
Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year ols Nói drifts trough life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Nói’s universe and offer him a window into a better world.
The near future: Bruno is trying to win back is ex-wife. Under pressure from her domineering mother and new (arranged) boyfriend, Jorge, Isabel brings charges of harassment against Bruno. Bruno is tried and sentenced. A device designed to suffocate him if he goes within 100 meters of Isabel is implanted in his throat. But doesn’t deter Bruno, he practices holding his brath.
Iron Pussy decides to take a commission from the Thai government, who usually deems her indecent for her publicly supporting the sex industry. But they cannot deny her ability to scrap the crimes with beauty. An undercover operation takes her to a remote mansion where she not only discovered ilegal activities, but also her past, and her first love.
A video of a performance in a London warehouse. A shouting match between two people, the most elementary form of human expression, showing primary emotions like fear and anger.
A dark winter night in the Portuguese countryside. A hostess bar where another working day is starting for the family who manages it – the father, mother and two daughters, the girls who entertain and seduce her clients. A world of false appearances and in which the dreams of a different life will end up falling to pieces. Because the fther, for whom a deal has gone badly, will be forced to sacrifice his younger daughter, and will thus end up tearing his whole family apart…
