Once a Boxer Toyohara is working for a game parlor owner (Curtis) and gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn’t understand. Before long he’s caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the bos
A group of children in Tangier in a project of a movie, oriented by a young European director. These children take a camera and shoot for the first time. But the director’s methods with them reveal its difficulties and they end up questioning the project’
A young man living in present-day Butte, Montana, has succeeded in forging a life for himself: work, a modest home, friends, and a family. But, like nearly everyone else in this once-thriving town, he lives precariously. Indeed, everything he’s created ca
It’s summer and it’s hot. The dogs are barking. It’s time to ask for the neighbor’s cutting grass machine. The editing rhythm takes us in an electric and original ambiance, where insects, as well as neighbors, have a place. (M.C.)
This life is lost in dust / Day by day the blossoms fall / Year by year the people go / Cold Mountain trail never ends / Even now you do not know? / The reality is asking the shadow the way.
During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with contingents of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic culinary carnage. In this phantasmagoric, otherworldly universe an unexpected sequence of events destabilizes the endless symphony of abundance.
The 13-year old twins Paola en Yvette have one big dream: being a professional football player. They play football every day, the whole day. They discuss the football news and even dream about it. If the scouts will see them and consider they’re good enough, they can play the Dutch Football Championship for girls.
Set during the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July 2006. We see the effects for the local population. The sirens, military patrols, blocked streets, low-flying helicopters and armed escorts. City under siege. Even the largest cemetery in the city turned into a strategically sensitive location at the time.
Is the working class really dying? Is hard manual labor disappearing, or is it just becoming invisible?
Today’s manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. They must be content with encouraging one another that backbreaking work is bett
“Dog Memory” shows us the story of a no owner’s dog that was once a man. Animation in two times, with two kinds of images and sound, we soon discover that luxury is the capital sin which gives the film its tone. This unusual animation in Portugal really i
In the Austrian elections of October 1999, Jorg Haider’s extreme right wing FPO party received more than a quarter of the vote and became the second largest party in the country. Four helmers, intrigued and alarmed, take their cameras to the streets, to t
What shall we do when little details become tragic questions of life? Football in two different levels. The first one, the unexpected results of a decision in the enemy field. The second, a poetic one, like a repetitive element in a melody which is more e
Sylvain’s mother asks him to write a letter to guarantee custody of his sister while his friend Arthur learns that his girlfriend Lolita has spent the night with another one of their friends, Damien. The three meet. Sylvain’s father threatens him not to write the letter. Lolita arrives to wreak emotional havoc.
In a shop that sells small characters made from plastic cords, “Nicolas the little musician” is the only fully finished one. He wakes up one day and decides to build “Guillemette the little dancer”. But by mistake she is transformed into a monster with a thousand heads.
A fable around places which are deserted by characters borrowed from Hitchcock’s films. The spectator strolls alone in empty spaces, in search of the other, who disappeared.
“No London Today” is an immersion into the world of five young refugees, Chafik, Aron, Abraham, Henok and Ermias, waiting and wandering in Calais, trying illegally to reach England.
A lonely tailor despairs at the results of his terrible curse.
A sad and lost character enters in a bus with a pizza in his hands. When he’s almost in his place the driver stops with brutality. The pizza flies and falls down!