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Anomalies is a bizarre animated choreography about how we try to enrich ourselves through prayer, faith and devotion while we believe in the existence of unknowable and uncontrollable monsters.
On 2 November 1975, the writer, film director, poet Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. On 26 April 1976, during court proceedings, Pino Pelosi, then seventeen, was found guilty of murder. Thirty years later, in 2005, Pino Pelosi changed his story. This film is Pino Pelosi’s story of what happened that night.
Set in Rwanda in the spring of 1994, at the outbreak of the genocide. Jacqueline, a young Tutsi woman, is a maid in a Belgian family. When she finds her children brutally murdered by the Hutus, she runs away and hides in the woods. There, she meets a man who has also escaped from the slaughter. Together, they will try to survive with the fear of being discovered at any moment. Terror and madness wait for them at every turn. An immensely personal and psychological journey with gripping performance by lead actress Ruth Nirere, that will hunt you long after the viewing.
Antero just left the prison and heads to his home village driven by revenge and hoping to recover his lost dignity; but time might have turned against him.
Bambi was born in a small village in Algeria, in 1935, in the body of a boy named Jean-Pierre Pruvot. In the 50s, as Cabaret Carrousel de Paris travelled to Alger for a performance, she took the opportunity to migrate to France where she began using her stage name ‚ Bambi. In Paris she was part of the vibrant night life of the cabarets in town. Now aged 77, Bambi remembers the life of a transsexual then, her friendships, the scandals and a surprising encounter with the love of her life. A story of rejection and courage documented with an impressive number of photographs and archive films.
Paris. Thirty-something Adèle is devastated by her break up with Mathieu, the love of her life. Seeing her suffering, her neighbor on the landing advises her to leave her ex’s apartment in order to start over. He introduces her to this relative, Rachel.Unwillingly, she agrees to take Adèle in, and then, moved by her evident distress, decides to help her find a job and get her taste for life back, and to offer some advice on her emotional predicament. Her main recommendation is that Adèle should sleep with other men to demythologise the previous lover. Though heart and body are unwilling, Adèle skips from one adventure to another.
Workers Leaving the “Lumière Factory”.
A long distance call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past.
She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots, the vespa and the cat named Baby.
A film about love, time and things that got lost along the way.
Few filmmakers have had as enduring an impact upon the art of filmmaking as Bernardo Bertolucci. Over a 50-year career, spanning such classics as The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, Bertolucci has reshaped Italian, art house and Hollywood cinema, as well as winning almost every film award you might care to name. Now cinephiles Luca Guadagnino and Walter Fasano have compiled the essential document of this titan’s life in his own words. Cutting together hundreds of hours of interviews and archival footage, Guadagnino and Fasano let the Italian master be the judge of his own legacy, providing a rare first-person tour through one of the world’s most important cinematic minds.
A man has been living for 30 years as a recluse in a forest in France. Alone, he hews out deep underground tunnels and galleries, which he decorates with old-fashioned engravings. These must withstand the planetary disaster that has been announced.
Salim, a recent immigrant, recounts this contemplative story about six men piled in the back of a van delivering flyers in Montreal on the day they are joined by a newcomer from Russia. Melding poetic and magic realism this lyrically melancholic drama ponders the immigrant experience, comradeship and the snow.
Bim Bam Boom Las Luchas Morenas, is about three Mexican sisters, professional wrestlers, whose lives, lived according to their own ideas, are a struggle but also a lot fun.
A classic American revenge story, Blue Ruin follows a mysterious outsider living in a wrecked old blue Pontiac whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Despite showing an obsession with guns he proves to be an amateur assassin. However, his lack of skills doesn’t stop him from winding up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
In the depths of a great forest clad in a great white mantle, curious little creatures discover how beautiful and fascinating and white snow is… as it whirls them giddily on their way to extraordinary encounters with the strange and wonderful. A nocturnal tale brimming with tenderness.
The last coming of age days for four youngsters. A film about growing up and manhood.
Kingdom of Portugal, 1859: Boa Noite Cinderela recovers the tale in a more materialistic and carnal version, where the motivation for finding the girl who lost her shoe might not be the owner herself.
15-year-old Livia gets back on her feet after falling from her horse with the help of Jean, a volunteer fireman with whom she falls in love. A few days later, vacation begins. She will remain in the small village in Provence where she lives with her mother. The girl, alone and exasperated, will stop at nothing to conquer this older man. Her love consumes her, driving her into a mounting frenzy, until she commits an irreparable act.