Throughout a year’s work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to devel
The emotional journey of a young teenager, Kaden, who lives a life of fear and threat. His friendship with Casey, the girl from school, and Lewis, a boy that spends time in his street, becomes a chance for change and self-discovery.
John, 10 years old, explains the requirements and consequences of space travel.
A farmer and his mother discuss the arrival of a strange animal amongst their herd of Limousin cattle.
A film poem prologue, the beginning of a metaphysical journey musing on a series of brief, but enigmatic images taken from around the world. These images follow one after the other, but geographically span thousands of miles and large passages of time between each cut. The soundtrack is by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
She has no one in the world. He’s willing to take care of her. It’s the beginning of a strange relationship. He buys a photographic camera. She will be his photographs only motif. He later discovers that the photos were nibbled by a mouse. He slowly disco
The young Canadian Xavier Dolan returns after his impressive debut “I Killed my Mother” (IndieLisboa 2010). A popish looking love triangle between two best friends, Francis (the director himself) and Marie, that both fall madly in love with Nico, a curly
Tom is 10, Piet is 6 years old. Two inseparable brothers. Tom explains the world in his very own way‚ no matter if things are true or not. It is just important that they could be true. Piet wants to have a little brother of his own now, too. But he gets a
Santamaria and Urtiga are two bandits on the run. One is white, the other one is black. Santamaria is a mystic visionary, believing that a purifying angel is about to appear. His faithful friend Urtiga is a man of a simple mind. He’s a naive person and he
Living in East LA and working at a Japanese jazz bar, a young cook (Shin) faces deportation to Japan when his visa is denied. Shin experiences a side of LA invisible to his social circle of Japanese immigrants. A portrait of life between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller.
“Stroszek” was written in four days specifically for Berlin street singer Bruno S. and most of the lead roles are played by non-actors. It follows the story of a man for whom there is no place in society and who attempts to find freedom and fortune in America.
My friends from Beirut telling me, openly and with details, about their most secret sexual experiences, the most ardent, and the most obsessional.
The melodramatic story of “Four” takes place in a nostalgic spring day of 1937. A seaside concert of a popular singer changes into a fatal tragedy that hits lives of the four women and shows there is a lot more than just a coincidence connecting these four characters.
Shot in four days, this is the first Bressane’s film at Belair. “A Família do Barulho” is a soap opera about the adventures of a double-dealing from Rio de Janeiro implicated with a strange and confused middle class family.
The red market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigue’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact b
“A poetic vision of Brazil’s proto-history, a patchwork of legends of ancient America… the cinema that interests me is the cinema of discovery, of retinal detachment. The key for the film it’s in the discovery of an America’s original heap of bones. I d
The Luxor temple of cinema, built in Paris in 1921 and inspired by Egyptian architecture, was briefly converted into a discotheque before being left abandoned in the 1990’s. Compiled in the form of a “making-of”, the film shows a guided tour of the site.
Yusuf is uncertain about his future in the provincial countryside. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are starting to be published in obscure literary journals. But for the time being, he continues working in his widowed mother’s village milk business, also with an uncertain future. Still a young and beautiful woman, Zehra is having a discreet relationship with the town station master. His mother’s affair, and being named unfit for military service due to a childhood illness, make Yusuf even more anxious about making the sudden jump toward manhood.