The story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes. At the heart of the family is Tancredi’s wife Emma, a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with her son’snfriend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever.
Hubert Minel doesn’t love his mother. The 17-years-old haughtily regards her with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parents’ cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical – artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex and ostracism.
Forward, March! In London, troops parade to the sound of music; hearing it, a furry and happy monster joins the party.
Paris, the Gare du Nord, anything can come along, even trains. We’d like to stay but we have to hurry on.
Like the thousands of lives that intersect at the station, Ismaél, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet there. Ismaél sees Mathilde for the first time on a suburban train platform. They gradually fall in love. They meet Sacha and Joan. Sacha is looking for his missing daughter while Joan spends her life in the station between Lille, London and Paris. The station is a world apart, frequented by everyone: the French, immigrants, emigrants, travellers, and ghosts. It’s an intersection where each life passes quickly and vanishes.
Película super 8mm P/B
A ghostly set of images of a scale model of an abandoned house. Lit by torches, we can only catch glimpses, fragments of the building. What we cannot see is just as important as what we can. The process of abandonment, decay and renewal.
Greedy Carlos is always hungry; we follow his quest for food.
Using 35mm films left behind in decaying cinema theatres, Head, Tail, Rail shows the forgotten images of the commercial cinema industry by giving a new meaning to its edges which are now assembled in a new audiovisual composition.
The impossible task of a grandmother who is trying to knit a pullover for a strange creature who keeps on growing new arms.
A diverse group of exiled bohemians (an Argentine pianist, a Romanian father and son violinists, a Venezuelan harpist, singers from Mali and Vietnam) are united by their experiences, the political repression, and by a luminous spirit and boundless courage that led them to flee any number of horrendous situations throughout the world. Finding refuge in Paris, music becomes their economic lifeline, but as this film makes clear, it is also a shining metaphor for their survival.
In Heights times and spaces dialogue with each other captured with an iPhone, from a single window, over the course of a year.
Helen of T is Lewis Klahr’s contemplation of aging over a piece of music by Elmer Bernstein.
Based upon the best selling novel Hersenschimmen by Dutch writer J. Bernlef. It is an intense and intimate story of what happens to the mind and the life of a person experiencing a loss of mental continuity. “Mindshadows” is a fascinating love story set against the rapid desintegration of Maarten Klein’s world and simultaneously, his rebellion against this desintegration.
It’s been a decade since Ben and Andrew were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down, a job, a wife, and home is his daily routine. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to Cambodia. When Andrew shows up unannounced on Ben’s doorstep, they easily fall back into their old dynamic of macho one-upmanship. Late into the night at a wild party, the two find themselves locked in a mutual dare: to enter an amateur porn contest together. They will have sex together…on camera and be the pioneers of Straight/Gay Art Porn. But how exactly will it work? Who will tell, Ben’s wife?
Hinoki Farm introduces us to Mr. and Mrs. Kikuchi and their farm in the mountains of Kyushu, in Japan, where the daily tasks impose a particular pace and another concept of aging.
Built from 16mm found footage, Implausible Things’ seven sequences create a patchwork of reflective tonality, in which each viewer is subtly invited to leave their conceptions of reason and causality behind.
Masa, an 83 year-old Japanese grandmother, just got out of a 50 days coma. Her whole family gathers to spend time with her reflecting the importance of life and death.
A reconstruction of an attempted robbery witnessed by Ruben Östlund and his partner in Plattform production Erik Hemmendorff, in central Stockholm in June 2006. Ninety six extras act out the entire event shot with a new camera technique giving the illusion that the scene is shot in one single take.