Even, the brother of little Idunn thinks his sister is a Sissy and spends his time scaring her; one day she is supposed to return home earlier and stay by herself for a while so the brother has a plan to make it her scariest day; but sometimes the things we do turn against us and it becomes uncertain who the biggest sissy really is.
Sisters is a fiction built from images of various origins that follows a text telling how a mother, obsessed with the delicate beauty of her sons, decided to bring them up as girls, and how they adjust to it and at the same time invent new lives outside their bodies.
Kenji Koiso, an eleventh grade math genius, agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natuski. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of the family matriarch. His job is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world’s collision with earth.
Andrzej and Michal, two young teenagers meet every summer in the small touristic village, the Siemiany. Their friendship has grown and the boredom of the countryside and the feeling of unity amongst them, takes their friendship to a new level of sexually loaded intimacy.
Lebanon, a country whose geographical location on several fault lines has resulted in a number of violent earthquakes; The Disquiet makes an analytical approach to the seismic situation of the country while anticipating deeper aspects of an imminent catastrophe.
Lição de Esqui the friendship between two young boys is challenged when, inspired by the accident of a colleague, they decide to simulate a fight so that one of them can be hurt and the other fired and they both can use the insurance money to learn how to ski in faraway Canada, where one of the boys’ aunt lives.
‘The German-born baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a wandering troublemaker: feminist, Dadaist, lesbian, proto-punk and provocateur in 1910s and 1920s Berlin and New York. A scandalmonger and maximalist she realised the old ideal of dissolving the boundaries between art and life every single day. Elsa now returns in a cinematic phantom portrait made by over 50 young artists, who entirely in her spirit have contributed a fragment to the total picture along the lines of the surrealistic ‘exquisite corpse’ model. The Filmballad of Mamadada is something as rare as a work that renews the scandalous ideals of the avant-garde without the slightest trace of retro nostalgia.
Que je tombe tout le temps? is the search for a seed by a young man who emerges from the underground where he hangs out with his friends; together they’ll embark on a long digestive trip.
Klahr’s distinctive cut and paste, which uses post-war images from newspapers and comic books, distils the essence of American consumerism while simultaneously exploring the dreamscape of the national psyche.
A man wakes up and mysteriously finds himself trapped in an empty, white rectangular room, wearing clownish bright pajamas. Where is he? Who did this to him? He is surrounded by a bunch of phallic -like symbols sticking out of the wall. Desperately seeking to get out he touches them and suddenly starts experiencing one strange phenomena after another. The “Big Man Japan” returns with his second feature, a twisted comedy and a surrealistic ride into a fantasy world full of surprises.
Klahr’s distinctive cut and paste, which uses post-war images from newspapers and comic books, distils the essence of American consumerism while simultaneously exploring the dreamscape of the national psyche.
Judged and convicted for several crimes, Ernesto and Gaspar are serving time in a high security prison in Northern Portugal. “No Company but Fear” is a film about Ernesto and Gaspar’s lost youth and the long journey that expects them once they leave prison.
A 19th century story, The Magnificent Lion Boy tells how an anthropologist rescues a jungle boy living among the animals and brings him to London; will he adjust to civilization?
Imagine an airspace into which a bomb has been dropped. The time between the bomb’s release and its explosion is neither the future (for the destruction has not yet happened) nor the past (which is about to be extinguished). The flight time of the bomb thus describes absolute nothingness, the zero hour, consisting of all the possibilities that in just a moment will no longer exist. Thus, this story will end before it has begun. Here, it is told in defiance: an architectural journey from Berlin to the world and back
The man who mistook his wife for a hat uses only charcoal and three sheets of A1 paper, to adapt Oliver Sacks’ seminal work, describing a unique neurological oddity.
Los Guardines is about the way of life of a place, and how that are reflected in the landscape, at houses, in the names of people and how to name them.
In a not too distant future, a Plastic Bag goes on an epic journey in search of its lost Maker, wondering if there is any point to life without her. To be with its own kind, the Bag goes deep under the oceans into 500 nautical miles of spinning garbage known as the North Pacific Trash Vortex.
Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema comeback after almost ten years of abstinence is a strangely grotesque, ironic and bitter dance of love. Denise (Nathalie Baye) gives up her job in television for a life in the country. Her boyfriend Paul (Jacques Dutronc) doesn’t want to leave the city but nor does he want Denise to leave him. Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) moves from the country to the city to sell her body. Their paths cross and a loose web of relations develops between the characters, whereby the plot (or non-plot) revolves around the concepts of “the imaginary”, “fear”, “trade” and “music”. Adopting his usual socio-critical approach, Godard surprises the viewer with his wild and enigmatic images.