“Why can’t you actually find a man?” Sonbol is asked by her mother. The answer is silence. She is 35, divorced, owns her own dental practice and likes to compete against men in rally races. She lives in the Islamic Republic of Iran, fighting everyday, even against her own doubts about God and if he is on her side.
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she’s left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
Fragments of spaces and times, remains of eras and places only inhabited by memories and ghosts. Traces of things changed by time, the elements, nature and human action itself. With time, everything ceases being and possibly transforms into everything else. Places that stopped making sense, stopped being necessary and fashionable. Forgotten places, obsolete, uninhabitable, empty.
As a reporter from film clubs, Bressane interviews Radar, an editing technician of soap operas, in the Rio de Janeiro’s prostitution area. A parody on television reports and a reflection upon censorship,quoting Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope and Fernando Pes
If your knowledge of classic vampire stories is limited to the legends of Frederich Murnaus’ “Nosferatu” and Bella Lugosis’ “Dracula”, its time for you to get to know they are based on reality and this insightful documentary proves it. Vampires are for re
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He’s considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all time
Marie Rivière is a frequent cast member in the films of Eric Rohmer. In 1978, she made her feature debut in his “Perceval le Gallois”, a poetic adventure drama set in medieval times. Her first leading role was as the wife of a jealous young student in “La
“Snow does not fall to cover the hill, but for every beast to leave it’s trail.” Eastern Bosnia, 1997. Six women, a grandfather, four girls and a young boy live in war ravaged and isolated village of Slavno. Their families and friends had been killed and their bodies had never been found. The first snow brings full isolation and risk for life in the village. Villagers face a dilemma: should they accept the offer that could save their lives, but destroy their souls. A sudden storm traps two businessmen in Slavno, forcing them to face a problem bigger than anything they expected – the truth!
A woman arrives at an old garner and finishes up by getting involved in an obsessive relationship with a scarecrow.
They walk in pairs door to door and they enter in the houses of those who are willing to hear them. The Elders and the Sisters, young Mormon’s missionaries, they leave their country, they study another language and culture, absorbed by that spirit of mission. They aspire being examples of the perfect boys and girls.
“The only two ways of leaving the island were the sea and the cinema.” Blaufuks’ documentary look lead us to S. Vicente (Cape Vert) and through the memories left on the island by the cinema. Based upon an interesting research work, both for the testimonie
The last moment’s poetry lays on the fact that we never know when it’s happening. We don’t even know if it’s a last farewell. And least of all when we’re ten years old. And we also don’t think about it when we’re starting a new life in another continent.
This silent animation is wordless though it is based on words, and develops its form and its theme according to the macabre and subtly necrophilic poem Seemannstreue by Joachim Ringelnatz, in which the first-person narrator tells about burying his deceased bride in the cold ground, then digging her up, and so on.
The setting for this story is a movie house showing pornographic films. This is the place where the characters in the film earn their living, lead their lives and are disappointed by their loved ones. The characters experience life as all of us do. Yet activities happen there that are what we generally know as “immoral”. Immorality has become a way of life as dictated or demanded by our need to survive.
Five characters and the capital sin of greed. A vicious cycle. A short animation film noir on greed. Its texture gives the story a different dimension. Five times greed. When you are told that money gives happiness it’s time for you to be suspicious. (C.
All her life Gerti Gerbert was photographed by her husband. After his death, she’s offering herself to a new camera. She’s supposed to give her body again, but this time without intimacy. Gathering texts, photos and interviews, Widmann and Krause compose
Denim is the supervisor for a facility housing 15 kids who affected by child abuse and neglect. Inside the gates of Short Term 12, fights and restraints happen every day and Denim knows how to respond. But as his personal life makes him to realize that he is no better off than the kids he’s trying to help.
Erwin, a weasel, lives in a trafficlight. His job is to check and look after the right light, every single day.