The life of a French DJ who’s credited with inventing “French house” or the “French touch,” a type of French electronic music that became popular in the 1990s.)
Archives: Filmes
“El Adios Largos” remakes Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye”.)
Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their
lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part
in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their
journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between
reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of
the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.)
Grey Antarctic lands are recalled through human memory and the history of film in “End of Summer”.)
“Guy Moquet” brings us the story of a romantic young man who wishes to kiss the girl of his dreams in the middle of his hometown lake – just like in the movies.)
Tomás is sent by his mother to his older brother’s house in Mexico City. With a tape of old songs by legendary Epigmenio Cruz, he manages to take his brother “Shadow” out of his apartment to look the musician in the city’s hospitals (like Dylan did for Woody Guthrie). “Shadow” goes after the one who made him cry – Ana, his ex-girlfriend. All seem to come from an old song — with no direction home, like a rolling stone.)
Havana is occupied by foreign forces and on the edge of civil war, Lazaro, a kid from the slums, walks us through his streets and reveals the chaos that has taken over the capital.)
“Headlands Lookout” looks into the ecological and cultural heritage of the Pacific Coast.)
“God Help the Girl” is a pop opera written by Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian, one of the greatest pop bands in music history (fans will agree).)
The dead also seem to walk in “Hillbrow”, a once hip neighbourhood of South Africa now filled with stories of violence.)
Jessica, an ambitious cello student, moves into a new flat, with her boyfriend Lorenz. When she receives the honorable invitation to represent Germany in an international contest for classical music it seems to be her great opportunity – but at the same time an enormous pressure. In her home, Jessica starts preparing meticulously for the contest. However, her
own four walls don’t appear to shelter her as Jessica finds herself increasingly exposed to small and major anonymous harassments. What is the neighbour’s involvement, who mysteriously pries behind half-closed curtains? As Lorenz doesn’t notice any of this and therefore finds it hard to believe Jessica’s assumptions, it creates conflict between the young couple. The increasing pressure and stress begin to noticeably gnaw at Jessica’s everyday life and pretty soon reality and imagination blur. Eventually Jessica finds her life in shambles, caused by her own ambition.
In the desperate hope to restore her happiness, she starts to defend her home – at all cost…)
A young woman named Helen has found work as a forest fire lookout responsible for monitoring a large Maine woodland. While there she has made an inexplicable but lucrative discovery: by analyzing the images of the forest that surveillance cameras relay to her base in a seaside 19th century home, she is able to predict future developments and trends in the world financial market. Discreetly compensated for her services by stock market speculators, she finds security and intellectual satisfaction in her new work, but also increasing selfdoubt. Helen turns for help and assurance to Charlie, an old school friend. But when the inquisitive and demanding Charlie arrives at the house, Helen finds herself challenged and unsettled by her new colleague, and the two girls’ relationship begins to unravel.)
When his husband Frank is sent on a mission to Djibouti, Roger remains behind with his adopted daughter, the temperamental Roxy, at Fort Buchanan, a remote base in the middle of the woods. Over the course of the four seasons he seeks advice, company and consolation from a middle-aged woman, three pretty wives abandoned by their husbands, and a farmer-cum-personal-trainer, all of whom have their own romantic turmoil.)
“Hotel Straussberg” is a military-like prison for BDSM pleasuring.)
A boy in “Hosanna” uses his senses to repeatedly bring back to life his fellow ones against the cycle of life.)
There’s just some places where one should never poke his eye.)
“I Am a Spy” is a study on observation and identity in a society ruled by information.)
Insects’ life and the memories of a past love haunt a colonial house in “Exuvie”. )