Can you keep a secret?… This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car. Mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.
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In a peculiar Laundromat, eldery women smoke cigarettes, pass the bottle, and reminisce.
Two men abandon a boring wedding, run away to a parking lot, a strip bar and a motel room.
Agustina is a pretty young girl, single, high-born and very much her own boss. She has a passion for other girls like herself. She has no doubt that in order to satisfy the impulses of love, the participation of the proud male species is not only useless, but harmful. Young Franville, aware of Agustina’s firm convictions against the opposite sex, and madly in love with her, decides to conquer her disguised as a woman.
Struggle is a film about the struggle for existence, to earn a living, to subsist, to survive. Struggle takes place in the realm of work: on strawbery fields, in factories, in offices, in cars, on the street. The protagonists are: a woman, a strawberry picker from eastern Europe who comes to Austria to build a better existence for her and her child- and a man, a Viennese real estate agent. Briefly there is hope for meaning in life.
Why are Americans so fat? Ominously, 37‚Ǩ of American children and adolescents are carrying too much fat and two out of every three adults are overweight or obese. Is it our fault for lacking self-control, or are the fast food corportations to blame? Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock hit the road and interviewed experts in 20 U.S. cities. From Surgeon Generals to gym teachers, cooks to kids, these authorities shared their research and opinions. During the journey, Spurlock also put his own body on the line, living on nothing but McDonald’s for an entire month. Could a man live on fast food alone? The film explores the horror of school lunch programs, declining health and physical education classes, food addictions and the extreme measures people take to lose weight and regain their health.
Sansa’s incredible advendtures around the world. France, Spain, Hungary, Russia, India, Japan, Egypt, Portugal… Passing the boarders, edentity control. Sansa is free, he loves women. Love stories. The camera follows him, walks, observe the world.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons of Robert S. McNamara is the story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary Of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, one of the most controversial and influential figures in world politics. From the firebombing of 100.000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo in 1945 to the brink of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis to the devastating effects of the Vietnam War, The Fog of War examines the psychology and reasoning of the government decision-makers who send men to war. How were decisions made and for what reason? What can we learn from these historical events? Combining extraordinary archival footage, recreations, newly declassified White House recordings, the film is a disquieting and powerful essay on war, rationality, and the nature of history itself.
A small girl is crying because there is a hole in her stomach. Suddenly a mysterious horse appears, the hole closes up and she is no longer sad. But then things begin to fall from the sky which distract, and fascinate her, the horse leaves. She grows up, but soon finds tha the hole has reopened.
A New York pharmacy and the feelings of the people who have run it, putting their heart and soul into it, for two generations: the Gardini family. In March 2002 the old building where the family has always lived with the pharmacy on the ground floor is knocked down. The last day of business, the emotional farewells of the (regular) costumers, clearing out the shop and, in the end, the demolition of the building to make way for a skycraper.
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the end of the Portuguese Empire, he who created the first metaphors against the Portuguese Colonialism. And who, with constant vitality, has opposed himself against the New World Order. Knowing, with Eliot, that the past and the future time are both always present on the present time.
Experimental documentary about life and death.
Tarnation begins in 2003 as Caouette learns of his mother’s lithium overdose in his native Texas. Faced with the haunting remnants of his past, including a family legacy of mental illness, abuse, and neglect, Caouette returns home to aid in his mother’s recovery. Slipping back into the archives of his youth, we watch Caouette grow up on camera, seeking escape from family trauma. Having relocated to New York in his twenties and subsequently attaining peace, Caouette discovers that family ties are never truly unbound. He rekindle a touching relationship with another victim of a tumultuous childhood – his own mother Renee.
Tlatelolco, México D.F. – Sunday, 11 0’clock in the morning. Flama and Moko are fourteen and childhood friends. To survive another boring Sunday, they have everything they need: the place to themselves, video games, porno magazines, coca cola and pizza delivery. Unfortunately, the electric company, their neighbor Rita, Ulises the pizza boy, eleven seconds, The Real Madrid – Manchester United football game, a chocolate cake and a horrible Duck painting are ruining what was shaping to be a great day. But the real problems are slowly revealed: divorcing parents, loneliness, the confusion of love and friendship between teenagers as well the adult’s frustation of life. Duck Season is a film that shows us that when the light disappears, the stars can be seen.
A group of filmmakers attend the Frank International Film Festival, comprised solely of Frank and held at his mother’s house.
On the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg, a huge electrical transformer fell off the truck. The hero has to watch over it as long as a crane doesn’t come to pick it up…
An ambitious 10 minute single take Revolution tracks over the activities at a special fund raising event to buy books for a library. All appears calm and well until dogs die, electricity cables cross, giant books topple, mouths start to bleed and things generally go awry.
Made single handedly over four years on a hand cranked movie camera, War reveals the internal struggles of our isolated characters amid the rural ruins of a disappearing America. Although it does not have a conventional plot, the film’s narrative depicts the inner dramas of a farmer, a junkman, a preacher and a young boy who inhabit the empty farms and the abandoned countryside.