During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
A family weekend is what this road-movie proposes. What could be an intimate moment of sharing between four people is, however, stained by the acknowledgment that this is the last time they will be together. There are two worlds inside the car ‚ the back seat that accompanies with little interferences the heads in tension of the parents, and the front seat, which divided in half tries to communicate to the back only its positive side. The territory is mined and must be handled with caution. Wanna Sleep Tired, phrase sung in the film, confirms the end of the relationship like a farewell ballad. Although young, Dominga Sotomayor holds the film with mastery, revealing every detail with sweetness and emotion, creating imagens with shadows and taking advantage of lights and landscape, making us penetrate a familiar universe in which we never feel like intruders or voyeurs. (Miguel Valverde)
Subtle observation of an everyday life of two refugees from Chechnya living in Warsaw, Poland ‚ 10-year-old Magomed and his father Vakha, which becomes a story about human’s love and dignity. (Marta Prus)
A factory somewhere in French Picardy. One morning, the female workers discover that everything has been removed during the night and that the management, accomplices of the swift outsourcing operation, have done a bunk. Shocked but realistic, they decide to pool their absurdly low compensation money in order to finance a redeployment project. They consider several options until Louise, the most radical of them all, proposes, no more no less, that they hire a professional hitman to kill the boss!
The inside of a pub or a bar, it’s somewhere – and it’s during the night. The café is empty, it’s just after the closing time. The owner is, slowly, getting ready to leave. The lady made herself a last little coffee (with a touch oh whisky). A man started reading out loud the text written by hand in his notebook.
Fiona, a 23 year old, is hired by a German family as a maid due to the unstable emotional condition of Claudia, the mother of the family. As the film progresses you get more into the compulsive behaviour of Fiona where she behaves according to the wishes and occasionally orders of the dysfuncional family that treats her more like a servant. She gets involved in the obsession of each member of the family playing her part in the little theatrical play they have created for themselves. Mother spends more of her time in repression pretending to be the mother of a plastic doll nursing it as if she was a child rehearsing for the future mother role, having Fiona participate in her fantasy. A newcomer German director with a very distinctive cinematic language and editing style participating in the line-up with her graduation film. (Nina Veligradi)
The architect Raul Lino (1879-1974) left an essential work on the Portuguese understanding of the ways of being and living. The film deals with this legacy based upon his published texts. They set the problematic of the House in a much larger context than the one related to the simple problems of its edification.
Shot on Crete and the ghost island Spinalonga in two days during the filming of Herzog’s feature “Signs of Life”. It tells the story of the last man to leave the abandoned island of Spinalonga, which had been used as a leper colony. The man repeatedly explains that he refuses to speak, even a single word.
Some night in an bar in a country district, some of the locals wait for Christiane, back in country after a long absence. A stranger also arrives. He’s had troubles with his girlfriend. A complicity rises between him and Christiane.
A group of friends get together for a birthday dinner. It’s the end of the meal and the atmosphere’s high: people are singing, drinking, hugging each other, telling jokes. Then someone asks a riddle: “In the Amazon, three ants are walking on a tree stump‚Ķ”. The evening will soon change tune.
A rockumentary, as much a reinvention of memory as a parade of the peerless and the pathetic, from Elvis to Sid Vicious. The filmmaker was a boy at the time, too young to get to Monterey or take the drug cocktails on offer. So in 2011 he returns as a full member of the elite, inserting himself as a biographer to the times.
Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leaves.
Sometimes under the nose of a man there are things that only he fails to see. A tortoise that will not move from the same place reveals the stubbornness of a man who goes to the other side of the world to find it. An animation with color and different scales, based on a short story by Almada Negreiros. (Carlos Ramos)
August 1, somewhere in the Aubonne countryside, Cécile and her ten-year-old daughter Marion have just acquired an old 1970’s Ford Taunus estate car. But their voyage is delayed incessantly. Perhaps, however, the way ahead will open up for Cécile and Marion once the problems have been solved. As far as the moon.
Rabbit is going to sleep over at little Teddy’s for the first time. They are both very excited. Rabbit is getting a bit scared. They have to call Rabbit’s mom who comes and take him home, but they promise they will try again some other time.
Women.Wave is a film about silences. Maria is plunged in loss and absence. She has decided to become the only fisher woman of a comunity taking the place of her deceased brother. She transforms herself and lives like a man. Women.Wave is a journey to the places of uncertainty and death.
Left-wing youth reacts the day after the elections. From helpness to startle, tears and anger. How to cope with it, or where to flee?
Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, this documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world. But beyond the panacea of the invisible hand, what is really going on?