Diane Wellington’s town is recreated through footage and ancient photographs, and written by its inhabitants voices. They tell the stories of her disappearance and show her captive of her unsolvable past. The only revenge is a bird flying loudly to the sk
Temporary residents of a house to be demolished, these artists – we can name them like this – spend their days in lunatic plots and farces. It’s Tiago Mata Machado’s second feature, an inspiring intelligent film, that achieves in connecting several arts –
Marie is growing up but she mixes up growing and illness. Her mother doesn’t see the girl’s struggle, but only her age. Image and sound emerge us under water, in a deafness that individualizes colors and sounds as if we are listening to them for the first
Come and meet the Mexican Irma Gonzalez. Whoever watches her leaving her home wouldn’t say that she’s the former world professional wrestling champion. In the rings, as in her life, she’s a fighter. A portrait built like a Russian matrioska. Surprise afte
The mating habits of the water shrew like never seen before…
Expectations are challenged in this short experimental film which plays with illusions and reality.
A group of friends share a cinematic experience in a particular region of Spain, Galicia. The goal is simple: to film what they like, without preconceived ideas about what should be filmed. They want their images to reflect the feelings that unite them with the people they find along the way.
The misadventure of an old woman obsessed with birds and her son, who thinks that can fly.
“Prince of Broadway” is the story of Lucky, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, and Levon, an Armenian-Lebanese immigrant, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York’s wholesale fashion district. Lucky’s world is suddenly turned upside down when a child is thrust into his life by a woman who insists the toddler is his son. While Lucky copes with his new domestic dilemma, Levon struggles to save a marriage that is falling apart. The seedy side of the wholesale district is revealed through a journey that continually confronts the interplay between what is fake and what is real.
We go “behind-the-scenes” and meet a more intimate China, rocked by changes and the extremely complicated cultural and social realities that result. In the temporary harmony of the night, when the masks fall, we’re taken on a journey to the inside of a country and the secrets the men and women that inhabit it.
Can you keep a secret?… This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car. Mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.
“Letter to a Child” combines intimate conversations with perfect strangers and personal letters contemplating bits and pieces of life, collected and addressed to a child. In a series of “guided monologues” people – from kindergarten children to the vintage ages – are contemplating and reliving their lives. When they forget about the camera and they turn their eyes inside, the film starts. They are alone with themselves in front of us and then we are alone with ourselves, with our life, long passed, very present. Through the film the intimate diaries are silently drawing in the back a picture of human life of the last hundred years.
Children play in a gymnasium as if it were a prescribed exercise. We are disturbed by the mechanical security surrounding them, but amused with the guard’s choreography to restore the order, every day at the same time. What if we could see our everyday l
An old woman and a new reality. Accompanied by her female dog Roza, one day this woman finds out that her building’s access is blocked. The reason are the future games of Commonwealth. In a just and surgical note, Stina Wirfelt tells us about life and ab
It’s a film about the upstream movement, about belonging. Jenny doesn’t see herself in the other’s kids games, but her attention is drawn by Adam. Through an interesting game of light and darkness, we assist to the oscillations of the power relations betw
Guided by a kid’s regard we discover the universe of his sister, a bodybuilder. The violence of the exterior world and fascination mingle creating moments of suspension in time. (M.C.)
A film about the pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, to the tomb of Saint Sergei in Zagorsk/Russia and other places around the world, but mainly a film (and music) about the deep spirituality, religious fervor and profound human suffering of pilgrims.
Loretta is poor 15 years old girl who introduces us to the macabre stories of her village. Anyway, she says, all the sons of God are going to die. In this Nick Cave’s music version, the voice’s tone evolution, the music and the animated visual elements wi