Yermén is a transsexual in her mid-thirties that works as a tarot reader, and lives in the emblematic low-income neighbourhood of La Victoria. Looking for a sex reassignment, she decides to try for a plastic surgery TV show, where she will meet an enigmatic immigrant who wants to get an operation to look like Naomi Campbell.
Ponto Morto is an on the road film that suddenly, on a desert route, comes across a car accident; from then on the trip takes a whole different course.
In Molii Steve has to replace his father, night guard of the municipal swimming pool; everything goes according to plan, until the young man hears unusual noises.
In Prehistoric Cabaret a woman performs on stage a colonoscopy with a bizarre organic camera, which makes us travel along her body in search of the original being.
In Night For Day, the light runs on a horizontal continuous movement allowing a series of associations referring to the very essence of film.
An ambient 21st-century road movie. It is a film about variously, life in the rearview mirror, memories of other journeys (Poland to Texas), modern technology (the YouTube generation, e-mail seduction). It is about the crossroads of life, driving into the flatlands of late middle age, about fathers and sons and growing up in the cold war, about genocide and political assassination, and the postwar landscapes of Europe and the USA, and how life looks now, seen by a six year-old from the back of a car.
A guided tour through a private museum in South London full of cinema ephemera including ancient cameras, film cans and classic movie posters.
Montenegro is an animation that explores with humour the drama of baldness, a passion for wolves and the admiration for Zidane, among other equally intimate matters.
In Punctuwool a shepherd in the sky has his hands full with a curious cloud.
War. A city under the siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the “Blacks“, who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy. The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action. On the battlefield, they find the enemy they are searching for is in the place they least expect – inside themselves. A dark glimpse at the horrors of the Balkan War.
When your mother has turned into a beast a lot of things change.
An ordinary man with an ordinary life joins a mysterious club. The membership lasts for one year only and there is one rule: no cancellation under any circumstance. The man enters into a whole new exciting world he never before experienced where crazy love goes wilder and crazier. Is it an illusion or is it real? Welcome to the world no one has dared to explore until now!
A film about the haunting experiences of Dutch U.N. peacekeepers, woven together by the powerful influence music has had on their endurance, survival, and memories of war.
Bury our Dogs investigates the tracks left in a village by an old tragedy. Two voices guide us through this drama, telling us how they passed away 30 years ago. Little by little, this reconstruction personifies and reveals us the missing fragment.
A story of incest between two twins who live in a mansion with different rules of those of the world which surrounds them.
Eamon loves to sleep in bed with his mother Grace. This suits Grace as she does not want to sleep with her long term boyfriend Daniel. Daniel is unable to sleep as he struggles to contain his growing frustration over his exile from the bedroom. When Eamon gets a week off school the three go on a holiday to an idyllic and isolated family cottage on the rugged Irish coast with very little money.
A girl walks into a bar and starts telling jokes about her vagina and her boyfriend. But it turns out the joke’s on her: the boyfriend’s been sleeping with her friend, and he takes advantage of her public, extremely off-colour verbal antics to dump her. Basting in misery (she’s also about to lose her job) and alcohol (with a gay wing-man on hand to enable her), she attempts to find solace in family, friends, more stand-up, and ultimately a casual hook-up. What comes next represents a brave new frontier in comedy.
From the testimony and personal experience of filmmaker Alberto Seixas Santos and his thoughts on the history of film, a filmic memory is rebuilt through an editing process. A dialogue between images from his films and reference to filmmakers he admires, whose films pervade this documentary like ghosts haunting reality. For the director, the key issue with cinema, as with painting, music and art in general, is that the only works that live on are those that have taken risks.