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Napoli Napoli Napoli is not only a portrait of the city itself, but a deep sight into its humanity, vital and brutal, passionate and cruel at the same time. While interviewing a group of female convicts in Pozzuoli State Prison, Abel Ferrara was deeply impressed by their statements, such harsh and fatalistic. By interweaving reality and fiction, this innovative docu-film is a complex and compelling mosaic, like the city of Naples is, such fascinating and indecipherable at the same time.
Pouco mais de um mês follows the recent romance of the director and his girlfriend, in an intimate yet fictional portrait of a real relationship, while the outside world is moving on the ceiling through the effect of a camera obscura achieved by the light that comes through the narrow space between the window and the curtains.
Based on a real life event of director’s Catherine Breillat, Isabelle Huppert plays filmmaker Maud who after a brain haemorrhage, wakes up paralysed on one side of her body. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project she stumbles upon Vilko, a con man who swindles celebrities. He is arrogant, magnetic and mesmerising and Maud wants him for her new film. Maud is a victim of his abuse of weakness.
The unlikely – but real – story about the dwarf that became a giant.
Filmed from a fixed camera angle in just one shot “No” shows two farmers working in the fields and how they change the landscape, giving it a new face, in what seems like a choreographed routine.
Tudo vai sem se dizer is a tribute to the director’s grandmother, Arminda, owner of a handicrafts shop in Viana do Castelo; the film shows the days of the grandmother in the present and in a past remembered in family films and in a letter the grandfather wrote from overseas, in 1958.
Alles Was Irgendwie Nützt shows a multitude of animals brought together in a rhythmical sequence of photographs of years of studies and experiments on animals.
After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care unit. K, a 30 year old nurse, will help X during his rehabilitation. K is also 6 months pregnant. This curious detail makes their apparent impersonal relationship stronger.
A character almost absent in the image searches, in Macao’s 2009, the Foreigner, someone who lived there 15 years ago. His search his supported on the letters the Foreigner wrote him back then. He covers in the present the trails left by the Foreigner in the past creating the traces of a new absence.
Quelqu’un d’ extraordinaire marks the directing debut of Monia Chokri, actress some of the films by Xavier Dolan (the film’s editor); this hilarious comedy focuses on a socially crippled 30 year old girl who is forced to join a bachelorette party of an old friend, confronting her with the gap between her and the world to which he belonged in adolescence.
Anatole’s little saucepan follows him around everywhere; it fell on him one day and nobody really knows why. Since then, it gets stuck everywhere and it keeps him from going forward; tired of it he decides to hide so that he won’t see or be seen anymore; but, fortunately, things aren’t so simple.
Petre is convinced that his son is very gifted, but gipsy music business is very tough.
A documentary on Brazil’s relationship with the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and to their own sexuality.
Angélique’s Day for Night tells in a shadow play style the importance of François Truffaut’s Day for Night in the life of Angélique.
In early 1985, the writer Nuno Bragança hands his friend Carlos Antunes a 13 question’s questionnaire; 13 sheets of graph paper, of which he offered the recto-verso of each for his friend to answer. The questions were about Carlos Antunes’ personal and political career, with a special interest in his involvement in the Revolutionary Brigades and the armed struggle against the dictatorship that led to his arrest in 1978. The untimely death of the writer, in the same year, left the questionnaire unanswered and some uncertainty as to its purpose. After almost 30 years, the director asks Carlos Antunes to answer the 13 questions and to reconstruct the achievements, illusions and sorrows of the Revolutionary Brigades in Portugal, in the years surrounding the Carnations’ Revolution in 1974.
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.
Muzorama is a short 3D animation film based on the universe of french illustrator Muzo (Jean-Philippe Masson).