Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art and a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Shahrohk’s grandmother never cooked. She was an independent woman, who had little time for her daughter. However, one day she made Iranian aubergine for her daughter and grandchildren. Now, years later, Shahrohk gives cooking classes and teaches his students to make this dish.
Le petit prince au pays qui défile is an intimate portrait of the famous figure skater Stéphane Lambiel, two times world champion and silver medallist at the Turin Winter Olympics, showing the young man distanced from the star he still is.
While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio (Corsica) hang out. One evening, one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal some objects of no value and two prize rifles. When the house owner arrives from Paris, she complains about the theft to a small local boss she knows.
Told from the perspective of an 11-year-old girl, Nasia, and filmed with amateur actors in the place where they grow up, “George Washington” tells the story of a handful of youths caught in the unconscious sphere between childlike naivety and the search for orientation. Nasia leaves her boyfriend Buddy for George, who dreams of one day becoming President of the United States. Their days are spent hanging out in the deserted marshaling yard of a small town cut off from progress. With great sensitivity, Green takes the desperation of his young protagonists seriously while at the same time striking a fine balance between pathos and comedy in his portrayal of their large and small gestures.
A Parisian restaurateur travels to Macau when his daughter is critically injured and her husband and two children brutally murdered by hit men. An unusual father, once a killer, now a chef is determined to set things right. Atmospheric locations of Hong Kong and Macau, To’s signature set pieces of choreographed gunplay create an enormously revengeful neo-noir, not to be missed.
Little Revolutions is set on December 25th, 1989, in New York; while a family of Romanian refugees gets ready for Christmas, on television is the trial of Ceausescu.
A momentary still life, a scene setting: ironing board, iron, and a pile of shirts; is Livepan a humorous scene?
The imagined and imaginary propaganda from Salazarism, during the World War II, preached the achievement of neutrality due to Salazar’s genius. According to this propaganda, which claimed the absence of war in the midst of war, even with the influx of refugees arriving in Lisbon, Portugal was a paradise of peace and tranquility, a “peaceful oasis”. That feeling that this propaganda transmitted was from a war that only effected the Portuguese according to its survival difficulties. The propaganda, set to extremes on the “Jornal Português” chronicles, helped creating a kind of protective unconsciousness that would be funny if it was not tragic.
The director’s mother – Sonia Honigmann Pach – prepares ‘Yiddish vrennekes’ just like her mother used to make during the icy winters in Poland. Memories of her village Grabowiec (destroyed in the war), relatives killed by the Germans, and her flight to Peru. A disarming mother/daughter portrait.
Mateo, 17, strives to gather enough money to pay for the coyote who will smuggle him across the U.S.-Mexico border after the yearly fiesta in his small Zapotec village in Oaxaca, Southern Mexico. His dream is to work hard in Los Angeles and support his mom and kid brother back home. But the way to get there is far more difficult than he envisioned.
A dispossessed drug dealer and his derelict companions are part of a cool generation that confronts displacement, sickness, and cultural decay in the back alleys of a city in Colombia. They are acquainted with many people on the streets, but are selective with their friendships. With all their connections dead, they struggle to survive on their own terms.
Fado singer Mónica Triga and her mother make ‘wild rabbit’ stew, a recipe Mónica learnt from her Portuguese granddad. Mónica’s mother left the Portuguese dictatorship in 1965 for the Netherlands. Mónica talks and sings – in fados full of love and melancholy – about her grandfather’s simple, honest life.
One day the Girl leaves her friend the Big Bird, seeking adventures in the world. However, she gets lost into the deep forest, lured by the melodies of Death´s beautiful flute. A shadow puppet theater play about love and sorrow.
Mr leos caraX tackles the complex artist—a cult figure since his first feature—by plunging the spectator into the poetic and visionary world of his films. By means of exclusive archival materials, interviews with his closest collaborators (such as Denis Lavant), and excerpts from his favourite films, this documentary attempts to put together a few pieces of the Carax puzzle. What emerges is an immersive and dreamlike portrait inspired by his singular artistic vision. Sit back and let yourself drift into the world of this unparalleled visual poet.
In Memória Da Memória, Paula Gaitán, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist proposes a “film-essay” made with Super 8 footage. “The one with no limits, filled with affection and imagination” it says.
In My Little Croco the life of Croco is turned upside down when unexpectedly he stumbles upon a little baby.
A strange singer with God-given talent drifts through his adopted city of Memphis with its canopy of ancient oak trees, streets of shattered windows, and aura of burning spirituality. Surrounded by beautiful women, legendary musicians, a stone-cold hustler, a righteous preacher, and a wolf pack of kids, the sweet, yet unstable, performer avoids the recording studio, driven by his own form of self-discovery. His journey quickly drags him from love and happiness right to the edge of another dimension.