Tables attached floor. One hour, that must be sufficent for two weeks, sometimes even a month. Meeting room in one of Polish jails. On one side: husbands, sons, fathers; on the opposite: children, wives, mothers. The film depicts the world of one of the mothers, her solitude and constant waiting.
Centered in the two-thousand-year-old city of Guimarães, three renowned directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, explore 3D and its evolution in the world of cinema. Greenaway’s Just in Time explores the city’s two millennia of history around the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza. Godard’s video essay The Three Disasters is a journey through the history of cinema, questioning what lies in the future, with 2D possibly becoming obsolete. Pêra’s Cinesapiens explores the role of the viewer in the film going experience, utilizing a group of spectators in a Guimarães movie house.
A documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad. The film, like the station, is the locus of fleeting encounters in which each person relates his or her life in a few words before taking a train and vanishing. In it the crowd of travellers comes to life through intersecting stories, one life then another, while globalisation forges destinies subjected to geography and the economy
In A Million Miles Away an adult woman (the conductor) on the edge of failing faces a pack of teenage girls (the choir) and experiences a supernatural version of coming-of-age while listening to the infectious beat of an 80s heavy metal song rearranged as a lamentation.
Mia convinces Ingo to play I spy with my little eye in the kitchen. The game dissolves the kitchen’s reality and melts it into a wild sea adventure.
In A Masque of Madness (Notes on Film 06-B. Monologue 02), a feature length experimental film, the British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969) embodies approximately 170 different characters. An acting career spanning 50 years (1919-1969) is compressed into one twisted movie. The protagonist experiences a schizophrenic horror trip in which he faces only versions of himself in different masks, at different ages, of different genders and races. This nightmarish concept film is both a tribute to a great actor and a crazy film history lesson.
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
In the early 1990s, in response to Peru’s inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis. “Metal and Melancholy” learns how these part-time cabbies, including a teacher, a Ministry of Justice employee, a film actor, and a policeman, among others, manage to navigate through Lima’s congested, pothole-filled streets in dilapidated cars whose survival techniques are as fascinating as those of their owners.
A Minha Idade is a fiction about a teenager living in an institution who, too old to be adopted, is offered a foster home; the idea of being part of a family is tempting but the adaptation might not be simple.
In Escala a man returns to his hometown years after he was forced to leave; there he tries to see the faces and places he once new, but the more he searches the more estranged he becomes.
Five children aged from 6 to 8 ponder creation, God, death, and the meaning of life. Their surprising answers are interpreted by hand drawn animations.
It’s not wrong to want love – you just need to look for it in the right place.
Em Cada Lar Perfeito Um Coração Desfeito refers to Stendhal’s seven stages of love to approach disaffection and the reality of deception.
Everyday, they come from Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Iraq or Chechnya. They are whole families, with or without luggage, with or without passports, by charter flights or in trucks. Among them, there are pregnant women, young lovers, old people. They have exhausted and feverish eyes and are filled of fear and hope.
Short in CG Animation about the fear of black night. A young girl of 6 years old frightened by dark is alone in her bedroom.
A truck, some bees and a woman who is chasing the sun… During the transhumance, blinded by fatigue but also by her desire to succeed, a beekeeper will push her bees to the brink. A story of perspective.
Widowed for a long time, a mother lives alone with her only son, Do-joon, a shy and quiet young man. In the aftermath of a terrible murder, the woman’s hopeless, helpless son becomes the prime suspect. Eager to close the case, the police arrests him. His defense attorney turns out to be incompetent and unreliable, making a conviction seem inevitable. Faced with no other choice, his mother gets involved, determined to prove her son’s innocence.
Adolfo is a creature invented by a boy with devious plans to dominate the word; with the help of Mary, his favourite guinea pig, and of the loyal chicken, Pilot, who is a dog he aspires the world domination; but things might not go as planned.