Em Trânsito is a reflexion on the growing number of cars in Recife, Northeast Brazil, used by the political speech to exemplify progress and happiness, though in fact it only affects the usage of space and the life of the people ‚ those who have and those who do not have a car.
In 1977 West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was arrested for having planned to kidnap the Swedish politician Anna-Great Leijon. Among the people arrested during the following raids was Kröcher’s former girlfriend “A.” This is her story.
La Reina, a child beauty queen who endures difficult preparations in order to become the prettiest and win the crown.
A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceau»ôescu.
The Gospel According To John read by Luis Miguel Cintra, one of the most prominent Portuguese actors. A glimpse at a personal experience of Jesus, filmed outdoors, from dawn to sunset, and materialized in the grain of the voice, the expression, control, rhythm and breath of the actor himself.
Usalullaby transports us to a dreamlike world where microscopic rabbits caress the body of a gigantic dolphin.
Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for a funeral. There, he’s shocked to find out no one knows who he is, nor who he was to the deceased, whose brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family’s name and grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his “trip” to the farm.
Travelling Fields focuses on a particular phenomenon occurring through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography. The film moves between different topographies and locations in the Kola Peninsula, Northern Russia.
A Taiwanese film director who cannot speak French is invited to Paris to make a film based on the story of Salome. Cultural dissonance and issues of translation all start to play havoc with his capacity to deliver on the film. Partly comedy, partly personal reflections on a director´s creativity and partly a tribute to the French New Wave, with dazzling images and a well chosen cast of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fanny Ardent and Laetitia Casta are just a few of the qualities of this avant-garde spectacle.
A Caça Revoluções is a film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.
Sangue na Guelra is about PROJECT 12/15 created by the Intercultural School of Amadora in a suburb of Lisbon to fight the dropout of sixty young people between 12 and 15 years, divided into four classes. The documentary was shot between January and June 2013 and without sentimentality or sensationalism shows the journey of these young people in the school which gives them a last chance to acquire a minimum of basic knowledge. Through the film, we discover the relationship and the conflicts they have with each other and with their teachers. The humanistic aspect has been privileged in a documentary that seeks to engage the viewer directly into reality through aesthetics without artifice.
A woman falls in love with a married, Belgian man. The film follows the struggle of the man between his two loves, and of the woman not able to put an end to a hopeless relationship.
A look at the life and work of Chilean DJ Ricardo Villalobos.
A gentle comedy and a melancholic love story of a film-within-a-film refracted through a dry, deadpan humour. A film crew are making a documentary on contemporary dance theatre in Argentina, with the sound recordist, Loro, caught in the midst of a messy break-up with his girlfriend, who has dumped him by letter. Loro begins to fall for one of the dancers in the film, only for her to disappear and leave him with a dilemma.
La part de l’ombre recovers the life of the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek, who disappeared the day his exhibition opened; what happened to him?
Vannacht worden we wrouwen is about two young girls, best friends who, during their pyjama parties, say they will never change; but they are in an changing age; will their friendship change along with the transformations of their bodies and minds?
Jorge is a tranquil, middle-class family man whose neighborhood has become overrun by a fringe class of street thugs. His comparatively fortunate existence makes him the target of their intimidation one night, and a hulking outlaw robs him of his insulin needle. Jorge’s teenage son boldly tries to stand up for his father, which only serves to unleash the bully’s terrorizing reign of threats upon the family. Rife with unnerving tension, To Kill a Man is ultimately a surprising exploration of the heavy burden of what it takes to do what the title suggests.
Virtuoso Virtual follows a secret choreography of ink drawings which seem to come out of nowhere but take on characteristics and moods of the music and narrate a story that appears to be laid out in the music.