A monochordic voice tells the story of two brothers during a Eremwin party, in Nigeria. The animation starts with the model of a house and transforms into a geometric structure with negative image, during their tragic escape. With a hospitable aridity, this dark and minimalist film awakes consciousness. (Miguel Valverde)
When working class teenager Delia wins a luxury car in a promotional campaign, she and her parents travel to Bucharest to shoot a commercial in which she must thank the sponsoring company for the car. As the shoot wears on, the car slowly becomes both the object and catalyst of an absurd clash of desire, values, and will between Delia’s cash-strapped parents and her youthful self.
The world collides in Chungking Mansions (Hong Kong). As perhaps the most diversely populated building on earth it is a paradise of multi-culturalism and low-end globalization, uniquely belonging to no one and everyone.
If To has a guaranteed place in festivals, it is rare to find this type of cinema in short films. A disquieting thriller about drug mafias, where Hiroshi, with his camera on top of the actors, creates a climate of suspicion between two dealers facing each other. And we know that something bad is about to happen. (Miguel Valverde)
In Kinshasa, a series of characters intertwines around the misfortunes of an unofficial taxi driver. This animation was made utilizing recycled materials and this is exactly what the film describes: we see the extraordinary resources the inhabitants of Kinshasa have to use to be able simply to survive day after day. (Karim Shimsal)
This specially commissioned film for Made In Liverpool 06 is a highly poetic and meditative work tracing the connection between a city during a moment of great change and how this moment can be reflected in the emotional world of its citizens.
The police reconstruct the disappearance of a teenage girl in a park. Off-screen, we hear the personal reflections of a female police officer about the process of leaving childhood behind and entering the world of adulthood. Lyrical, virtuoso prelude to the first feature film by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor.
An immersion into the Stanley Kubrick’s obsessive fascination for Napoleon Bonaparte and the film he attempted to realize on the Emperor’s life.
Ida Nordberg, aged 5, crosses everyday the frozen sea that separates her house, in the small island of Kyrkogerdso, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, from school. Against the overwhelming landscape, both an enchanted kingdom and a prison, she, in her small boots, fights a silent battle. (Ágata Pinho)
Life for Bogdan couldn’t seem more blissful, sea-vacationing along with his gorgeous wife and adorable young son. He has grown up: the days of glorious drinking trips and sexual adventures are long gone… But when Bogdan unexpectedly runs into his best friends from high school, vivid memories immediately flood back. Torn between his family obligations and the lure of a fun night out with his old friends, Bogdan – or Boogie, as he was known back then – comes to a realization. The gaps between his childhood pals have grown wider. Friendship, it seems, can no longer be based on common tastes in women, beer, or football teams.
In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat. The dream of an impossible journey, in freedom’s search of the memories from an eternal past. A reflection on the effect of time and space’s metamorphoses in a man’s life and in his happy death.
“””I would like some honey, the best you have.”” “”We’re out of honey, a green car got it all.”” “”Thank you”” “”You’re welcome”” “”Nice jacket””
The above dialogue no matter how odd it sounds is a driving test, the faster and more accurate you deliver the lines the better chances you have to be selected as the driver to deliver jars of honey. The cinema of false logic is defining the cinema of Greece. After ‚ÄòDogtooth’ and ‚ÄòAlps’, Efthymis Fillipou co-wrote with the the director of L a grotesque comedy about a man that is rejected as a driver just because he forgot to check the quality of honey. If the world that surrounds us is incomprehensible the more in crisis we get and the more trapped we feel. In our case our main protagonist lives literally behind the driving wheel, it’s where he eats, where he meets his children, where he celebrates birthdays. Emptiness, nothingness, lack of emotion and repetion constitute L with obvious references to Samuel Beckett where the main characters as bears are obsessed with honey. (Nina Veligradi)”
Posokoni is the largest tin mine in Bolivia. The thousands of workers it receives daily taint, lantern in hand, the gloomy silence of the tunnels. The camera follows light as it devours obscurity but the opposite also happens. After an accident, darkness is left behind and the exterior awaits them with some kind of a liberation. (Ágata Pinho)
Mauro is under house arrest. Tattooing helps him while away the time. Three local kids taunt him through his window. Outside, the midday sun beats down.
“Arise (Zona)” comes from the feature film “A Zona”, by Sandro Aguilar and emerges up from all the cinematic dirtiness inherent to the filmic support. These images intended to emptiness and total forgetting, lead us to the ambiguity between life and death, in which narrative and temporal logic are suspended.
A cross between a road-trip in Portugal and a summer love story. It is the junction of a narrative line more philosophical and poetic with factual and personal elements. Julian is represented here as the “noble savage” of Rousseau: nature is his natural environment. Julian is like Adam, the embodiment of various myths created by mankind. (António da Silva)
Justine, a.k.a. Junior, is a 13-year-old tomboy with pimples and her own brand of humor. She’s just a tad misogynous. After being diagnosed with stomach flu, Junior’s body undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis.
The film is set in five parts, five seasons that are part of the Chinese almanac. The story takes place in the jianghu, the martial arts world. Ouyang Feng has lived in the west. He left when the woman he loved chose to marry his elder brother. He ends up as an agent. When people come to him with a wish to eliminate someone who has wronged them, he puts them in touch with a swordsman who can do the job.