A year after his father’s death, a boy travels to the country to meet his grand-parents and convince them to give him the ashes. With his father’s girlfriend he looks for the right landscape to set his father free for the last time.
Archives: Filmes
An unusual climate change turns Recife, in tropical northeastern Brazil, into a cold and damp environment. A foreign TV documentary examines the effects this change has brought upon a culture that has always lived under the bright sun.
The Missing Scarf is an animated film that explores in an unexpected way some of mankind’s most common fears: unknown, failure, rejection, and death.
La lamp au beurre de yak is set in Tibet where a young itinerant photographer and his assistant invite the local nomads to be photographed in front of various iconic backgrounds.
Trootpout plays in a small band of invisible creatures but his excited spontaneous sounds often disrupt the melody of the others and so they decide to put The Odd Sound Out; will he ever find a band with room for an odd sound?
This is the story of a man who created a jungle next to the highway, building with his bare hands beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in the forest. He is known as Tarzan from Argelaguer because of the peculiar Tarzan remakes recorded with the collaboration of a 14-year-old boy. Sobre la Marxa puts together the pieces of an extraordinary life of numerous facets: the aged man who is still a child at heart, the modern savage, the visionary admired for those who go on a pilgrimage to his forest, the misunderstood to whom many labelled a lunatic.
Jin is a famous Korean actress who travels to Phuket for a holiday. But she cannot escape the constant disruption of phone calls and fans. She finds an unexpected friend in Pong, the hotel limo driver. They share a common bond – a memory of old Phuket that no longer exists anymore.
Being classified as subversive, GDR photographer Harald Hauswald was for many years observed by the STASI under the code name Radfahrer (Cyclist).
In a recycling factory in the north of France the machines dance, the workers join in song, and the truck drivers almost make a ballet. The process of recycling by joyous machines that transform noise into rhythm. A short musical journey that will keep your toes tapping and your hands clapping.
One of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema, Chris Petit’s (anti-) road movie is both a hymn and homage to the dreamed imperatives of the clear highway, while remaining ruefully aware that, in England at least, the road soon runs out and the journey must turn in other directions, not least inward. Following a young man as he travels to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, “Radio On” offers a unique, compelling and even mythic vision of a late 1970s England, stalled between failed hopes of cultural and social change and the imminent upheavals of Thatcherism.
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, and her fans hoped she never would. So in 2005, when Hanna stopped shouting, many wondered why. Through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, The Punk Singer takes viewers on a fascinating tour of contemporary music and offers a view into the life of this fearless leader.
Les jours d’avant tells the stories of Djaber and Yamina, two young neighbours in a housing project south of Algiers, in the mid-1990s, during a violent outbreak; in a culture that doesn’t encourage proximity between boys and girls each of them can only fantasise the other’s life.
Théodore Casson is a flâneur, a dreamer, and a photographer who is taken in by Doctor Spielvogel and undergoes a bizarre transformation.
In As Figuras Gravadas na Faca pela Seiva das Bananeiras the postcards sent between the island of Madeira and the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique create a fictional colonial memory.
Pig Me is the story about a pig that escapes from a slaughter house. He finds his way to a pet shop and discovers the nice and warmth atmosphere between the costumers and the animals getting bought. He also wants to get bought, but he realizes that nobody wants to buy a pig.
Sam’s relaxed life selling hotdogs in the middle of a road that crosses a forest. His hotdog van, his huge bear, and a bit of company once in a while, is all he needs.
A blur shadow and an anonymous interview reveal a lonely man.
Ruhr presents James Benning’s perspective on the Ruhr district in Germany, a region formed by coal mining, industrialization and its working class inhabitants. It is more than a portrait of a region subject to structural change and an example of the paradigm shift in the cultural history of labor. It is also a hommage to the Ruhr district and its people, to those who work to form their region’s culture.