Silêncio Entre Duas Canções tells the story of a brother and a sister, Lucas e Laura, living temporarily in Berlin; the relationship between the two is shaken when Lucas reveals his wish to stay in the city, knowing his sister only thinks about leaving.
Iris works in a match factory. She is young but not pretty. A girl searching for happiness. At home she cooks for her parents, with whom she has no real relationship. All human emotions seem to have frozen into silence and a frigid coldness. When Iris falls in love with a man who simply uses her for his own pleasure she decides to strike back, and not only her parents and lover fall victim to her revenge: She buys a large quantity of rat poison and carries out her plan with cool deliberation. In the end she makes no attempt to resist when she is arrested as she works on the assembly line at the match factory. This is a typical film from Aki Kaurismäki’s worker trilogy, which established his special reputation.
A ‘science fiction documentary’ constructed from hundreds of reels of amateur super 8 film, which builds imaginary worlds to overcome the isolation of a small town where two friends grow up, and later the loss of one of the friends. In another world, things happen according to one’s dreams.
Traces of a Diary it’s conceived as a sort of traveler’s diary, a film notebook on the work of some of the more relevant contemporary Japanese photographers. Throughout a series of meetings with the photographers, the directors reflect upon nature and on the act of making images and telling stories, on the diary process itself. Shooting with two 16mm Krasnogork3 cameras, Martins e Príncipe stress the rawness of the spontaneous and contingent.
Zé is a low profile drug dealer. He works at a roadside hotel in the middle of Alentejo. A barbecue on a hot night crosses unexpected characters: two women travelers, a new drug dealer in town and a dress.
A group of people have moved to Alaska, in search of the absolute freedom.
Alan Bissett recalls the intense experience of growing up next to one of Europe’s largest petrochemical plants and the harrowing experience of an explosion that temporarily deformed his father.
The world’s biggest shopping mall can be found in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, in the province where the heart of China’s new economy is beating away. Slowly but surely you start getting the feeling that something isn’t right here. Where are all the people?
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Village Modèle é inspirado na cidade propaganda norte-coreana de Kijong-dong, onde até 2004 havia transmissões em gigantes altifalantes durante cerca de 20 horas por dia com propaganda; uma cidade que se julga ser uma cidade fantasma, criada para impressionar os vizinhos do Sul.
After escaping from her father’s place, Céline, a young girl, meets Peter, a British truck driver. Together they start a luminous trip in his red truck. Céline has a dark secret. So does he.
La Voce di Berlinguer reproduces the speech that the mythical leader of the Italian Communist Party gave in Turin, in 1981, where he mentioned the need to restructure the morals of the state and the happiness of the people; an intelligent and powerful speech that makes even more sense today.
Without knowing it, we attach significance to phantom stories that circulate around us; Man kann nicht alles auf einmal tun, aber man kann alles auf einmal lassen, is one of those stories.
My first film, made at art college with my friends as actors. Based around the Jeckyll and Hyde story, updated to 20th century Cornwall, and betraying my early love of Horror. The version i’m showing here is a 1min trailer of a 15min film.
The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man’s detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti’s film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character’s radical renunciation of life itself.
Kurdrjavka ‚ Pikku kippura is a piece compiled mainly of archive material, centring on the launch of Laika the dog into space in 1957.
University student Hae-Won wants to break up with Teacher Sung-Joon. They have had a secret relationship. Hae-Won meets her mother, who is going to emigrate to Canada the next day. After meeting her mother, she feels depressed and decides to meet Sung-Joon for the first time in a long while. Sung-Joon suggests they runaway to somewhere else.
As Rosas Brancas is an emotional tale about memory, mourning, faith, loss, and the shifting of family roles in the wake of a death; how to proceed with the mother inside one’s heart?
Our Curse is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child ‚ the Ondine’s Curse; the film shows the process of taming the fear by the parents and gradually adopting to the new situation.