P3ND3JO5 is a title that in order to be heard must force its graphic nature and be pronounced Pendejos. According to its director, P3ND3JO5 is musical with ghosts and skaters. A cumbia-opera in three acts and a coda, for people to see as one continuous feature. It’s about faces / gazes / desire / love / drama / tragedy / shots / raw image in B&W 4:3.
Reign of Silence is an experimental fiction with a single scene depicting man’s action over nature and the return to the stillness of the landscape.
A woman is walking down a long corridor bordered and overlooked by a vast stretch of water. As she wanders, she is confronted by enigmatic entities, figures like sculptures, frozen as they wait and apparently indifferent to her as she moves about, as if absent…
A woman talks about a man. Then another. An other this woman is also a prostitute. That man is sometimes a client or a brother, a neighbour, a boss, a childhood friend, a husband, a shopkeeper round the corner, a lover, a son, a passer-by. A wish to touch – delicately – this daily life behind the neon lights. Routine, tenderness, desire, wait, ordinary – something about intimacy.
The story of two charismatic mayors, Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa who, with unorthodox methods, in less than 10 years turned one of the world’s most violent and corrupt capitals into a peaceful model city. The film uncovers the ideas, philosophies and strategies that underlie the changes in Bogotá.
Based on a true story, Johann Rettenberger is a marathon runner but also a professional bank robber. He lives an official life with his girlfriend in Vienna and robs banks repeatedly throughout Austria. He is driven to stay in motion and motivated by the adrenaline effect of the robberies on his sportsman body . When the authorities finally locate him, he uses his marathon skills in an attempt to escape the largest deployment of police officers in Austria’s post-war history.
Our water use may seem very distant from the mountains, rivers and oceans that of the water cycle, but actually, we impact and affect the water cycle every day; we are Part of the Cycle.
The valley of the river Ave has been, for more than a century, a place taken by the industry. The past decades, however, have witness its decay imposed by the globalization’s impact on production and the rise of the Asian industries. Between ruins and working factories, the film travels down the river on a journey through the shores of the present, unravelling the traces of the past.
In 1912, Arnold Schonberg composed Pierrot Lunaire from the collection of poems written by Albert Giraud; in 2011, conductor Premil Petrovic invited Bruce LaBruce to direct a theatre version of Pierrot Lunaire based on Austrian composer’s the notion of cabaret; in 2013, Bruce LaBruce takes Pierrot Lunaire to the streets of Berlin and with Petrovic’s interpretation of Schonberg’s music, shots a story of desire, love and transgression, in which a woman dressed as a man seduces a young girl who doesn’t suspect that her lover is actually a female.
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Os próximos Jogos Olímpicos estão marcados para o Rio 2016; duas ginastas, Teodora e Andreea, de 13 e 11 anos estão num centro avançado de treinos para conseguirem fazer parte da equipa nacional romena; aqui cresce-se de um modo diferente, em esforço mas com ambição, sonhos e batalhas diárias com os próprios limites; qual das duas irá estar no Rio?
It’s Cherry’s birthday and she’s excited about spending it with her family, but they’re all too caught up in their own worlds to realise. The smaller Cherry feels, the smaller she gets – will she disappear altogether? A little bit of attention goes a long way when you’re only two centimetres tall.
A sci-fi story developed by a class of children in school is mirrored in an adventure of the same children, as astronauts, within a flying pen travelling in space. After entering a black hole by incident, they find themselves in the past, during the Jurassic Age.
Sausage employs boundless humour and action to explore issues of food ethics; the idyllic market square of two artisan stallholders is invaded by a slick fast-food vendor; what methods must these traditional providers invent to battle for their livelihoods?
Sleeping Image is a “film-experience” that lets us see the development of 25 Polaroids and the imagination they contain; in a continuous, fluid motion, the film offers a way through a hostile and fascinating world, where violence and suffering stand alongside hope.
Four teenagers in a red Renault 11 go in circles in a parking lot. They titillate each other, they simper, they are jealous one from the other to finally look like archetypal and classic movie figures from James Bond or Dean to Sharon Stone.
Jean-Paul Colmor is 74 years old. After an accident, he took an early retreat and has been collecting cars, wrecks and junk for the last 40 years. Living among tons and tons of debris, he quietly works all day on his unimaginable property, furnishing and dealing car parts to mechanics and other iron aficionados. One day… four intruders visit Colmor in search of a corner of twisted paradise. “Carcasses” uses documentary and fictitious elements to try getting at the soul of an unthinkable place.
Sottoripa is a tribute to a neighbourhood in the historical centre of Genoa, Italy, made from a poem by Julian Stannard with an assemblage of scenes from films and documentaries from the 50.
Finn walks in the woods with his parents paying more attention to his Game Boy than to the Sounds of Nature; upset, the father takes it away; suddenly a strange sound takes the boy on a mystical journey into a new world of hidden possibilities.