Chiara is 12. It’s her confirmation. The whole family crowds into the photomat booth for a commemorative portrait. But Chiara doesn’t feel very well.
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Longing to renew relations with her absent father, a young woman finally finds the courage to confront him with the questions she has always wanted to ask.
Itsy bitsy spider went down the sounding board. Down came the hammer and striked the spider’s chord.
An unconventional personal history of the late Communist period in Romania.
He lives in a little town in southern France and will spend this summer chatting with his friends, assisting the 14th July fireworks, going by the lake. A close-portrait made of carefully chosen magical moments. An ordinary summer in the life of a not so ordinary (and yet typical) boy. (Karim Shimsal)
It’s sensual! An erotic exploration in a friendly attraction. It’s night! Victor and Rainer are on a train going clubbing. It’s emotional! They exchange their hipster scarfs on the way. It’s sexy! They are looking for lust and seduction while dancing. It’s impulsive! They pick fights on the street just for the sake of it. It’s passionate! They claim each other’s presence in the relationship. It’s mysterious! They are desperately looking for the unknown, a melodrama to make them feel, to make them suffer, cry, a melodrama to make them alive. It’s poetic! They share their feelings and anxieties through subtexual dialogue. It’s tragic! They are young and they already feel hopeless, alone and dead. It’s arrousing! Visually and aurally the film get’s you in such an erotic mood that is hard not to have a mental erection. (Nina Veligradi)
A slowly moving camera captures the interiors of various houses in a village. They are all deserted except one house with a group of young soldiers. It is unclear whether they are exhuming or burying something. The voices of three young men are heard. They repeat, rehearse, memorise a letter to a man named Boonmee.
Rivers tells the story of a journey to Woodbridge, Suffolk, to visit his friend Ben and his father Oleg…
In his latest work, Nicolas Philibert films animals set to extracts read from Rousseau’s L’Essai sur l’origine des langues that questions the social role of language and its origins.
According to Alain Cavalier one only makes good films of whatever one loves. But what if I don’t manage to film my brother well, does that mean I don’t love him? A young cineaste makes several attempts to record the love he feels for his brother and for documentary films, and undergoes several bizarre experiences on the way.
A portrait of Silvano Agosti, a cult and unconventional Italian film-maker whose cinema and independent lifestyle have created masterpieces while he chose to remain cut off from the film industry.
Notes on the economy of gravity. An old plane graveyard in California turns out to be an unexpected link in global film production.
A Princess takes a really close look at a cow.
Six o’clock in the morning and Rafa finds out his mother is under arrest. On a friend’s bike he crosses the bridge and goes to a police station in downtown Lisbon to see her and wait for her release. Time goes by. But Rafa doesn’t want to return home alone.
Young French actress Julie de Hauranne speaks Portuguese like her mother but has never been to Lisbon. She arrives in the city for the first time just as they are about to start shooting a film based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun by the Count of Guilleragues. She quickly becomes fascinated by a nun who prays every night in the chapel of Our Lady of the Mountain, on Graça Hill. During her stay, the young woman has a series of encounters that seem as ephemeral and inconsequential as those from her past. And so, on the night she finally speaks to the nun, she manages to perceive the meaning of life and of her destiny.
A family’s life in the wilderness of the Highlands, working, playing on a farm through the seasons. A sense of freedom, with no particular story, beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived. A poetic study which contrasts the languid setting with the youngster’s restless energy.
The film invites us to a universe of next door neighbours who usually get together to gossip. They reveal the details of the party that Dan, the hostess’ son, threw in her absence. Little by little, affection, common sense and morals come into conflict. (Miguel Cabral)
Documentary on the Brazilian romantic, sentimental and erotic imaginary based on the works of the most important composers of popular romantic music, genre also known as brega (cheesy). In these songs, the lyrics create a true chronicle of romantic practices.