This is the story of a lonely man named John. He lives his life alone trying to connect with anything or anyone he can. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between hysterical laughter and hysterical crying.
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A modern parody of a film noir. The film’s structure follows the classic example of voice over narration on a first-person basis by the anti-hero Enzo as a plot structuring mechanism. Enzo, is a recently released from jail thief, with specialty in opening safes with his bare hands in 10 minutes. Enzo, constitutes the classic clumsy protagonist, a Peter Sellers look alike, emotionally allienated for a long time that he can’t remember the last time he smiled at someone. His Clumsiness is sexually aroused by a fellow crook as the femme fatale heroine. The film’s setting is partly filmed in a decadant nightclub with failed cabaret artistas and gamblig dens and partly outdoors to metro stations and factories. A Euro-noir tale of corruption, seduction and deception and a tribute to film noir/soleil. (Nina Veligradi)
A hymn to life and rebellion, dedicated to whole generations of factory workers in who have, waves upon waves of new immigrants, built Europe’s wealth. The film brushes the portraits of people coming from all over Europe, literally travelling from one to other, who are meeting in the most polluted city in Italy to organize the biggest firework you’d imagine. (Karim Shimsal)
In a French rundown industrial park, Mao, a Muslim boss, owns a company that specializes in repairing trucks and pallets. He decides to open a mosque and designates the imam without consulting the workforce.
While emptying the house where we lived all our life, we can find sleeping memories. Pedro finds a story from the past that connects him and his family to an armed revolutionary organization from the eighties, the period when his father disappeared. Pedro will have to revisit the past and in that journey he will awaken his survivors and bring to life his ghosts. Before, what mattered to his father and to his comrades were their politic ideals. Today, what matters to Pedro is to awake the Human story that everyone tried to hide and forget. One day, one has to do something, unexpectedly. As the “April Showers”.
A hard rock band lead singer is realising his father role, on his way to meet his wife in order to sign the divorce papers, he is rediscovering himself as an adult. So Yong Kim’s highly anticipated For Ellen once again is focusing on the humanistic side, examining the state immaturity when it comes to parenthood. A father/daughter attempt to build a relationship, a puzzled child dealing with rejection and a desperate father filled with guilt is trying to explain his absence. Not knowing how to act, he appears less mature than his daughter, unable to relate to her emotionally and struggling to maintain a connection with his place of being. He keeps asking himself in front of his daughter if he should be there, creating even more uncertainty and fear. A character drama about childhood given by the point of view of a failed musician and absent father trying to gain presence in his life. (Nina Veligradi)
The weather is great at the Mediterranean island Formentera opposite Ibiza, it’s summer and everything is loose. Nina and Ben, a Danish-German uptight couple arrive for vacation staying far away from work, their kid and all their daily routine. There, they interact with post-hippies friends of Ben’s. Everything seems laid back until the dangerous free-spirit of hippies interferes with the boundaries of the couple and Ben starts flirting with Mara. It’s the crucial moment in the script where things change direction and instead of having a couple re-connecting we have an existential nightmare for both protagonists, when a member of the trio ‚ Mara ‚ disappears. The structures are shaken, guilt enters their relationship and the script enters a dark territory right beneath the Mediterranean sun. Disciplined style of direction and a cinematography without sun-proof absorbing every glimpse of light. (Nina Veligradi)
14-year-old Jorgis is a gifted choir boy. But his voice is starting to break. 12 notes down. He must stop singing in the boys’ choir soon or risk damaging his voice permanently. This is a shock as his entire identity will change. The boy singer must now become a man.
Time rushes by us. It rushes like the clouds in the sky that are swept and left drifting by the wind. As it passes we live and feel its passage. A brief reflection about time and life seen through two moments of our mother’s lives.
The passion for cars and speed absorbs Alex’s life, pulling him away from his companion Rachel and their daughter. When driving his yellow car on the freeway, Alex accidentaly runs over a young man and runs. As guilt grows inside him, he is unable to forget the incident. Christophe Sahr’s first feature, Voie Rapide is definitely one of the great surprises of French filmmaking today, operating a well sustained narrative and a confident dominion of images that sometimes wink at Cronenberg and his film Crash. (Catarina Cabral)
The family doesn’t need stories, it only needs to be observed, as Radu Jude, filmmaker long linked to IndieLisboa, does in exemplary way in this 2nd feature film. What could be the beginning of a happy holiday becomes a nightmare for this father who just wants to spend time with his daughter, from whom he lives separate due to the divorce. The spiral of violence that the film proposes is consciously used by the director through the choice of close shots and hand-held camera, creating a huis clos to which the viewer feels as trapped as the character. And if you think that movies are only there for extraordinary storytelling, look inside. Then watch your backyard. (Miguel Valverde)
Mogwai went to Italy to play a festival in august 2008. Mogwai didnt expect to have Adelia, the organizer’s grandmother, as a fan in the audience.
“… All the Stars” tells the story of Lea, a young man who falls of a precipice, survives, and after that tremendous event, begins to think that he has a gift of survival which he shows to his closest friends. But this “gift” ends up enslaving him with an unbearable weight that he cannot tolerate, fame.
Two polish friends work illegally in a sawmill in Norway. An accident shakes their everyday life and the spectator’s consciousness. A strong and precise directing, punctuated by small moments and shots of extreme intensity. A human approach, without excesses of sentiment, that encourages reflection. (Carlos Ramos)
Through the guitar and voice of António Zambujo, a consecrated fado singer, we hear the melody of a man who refuses to grow up, attached to his childhood memories. With meticulous lines and curious metamorphosis that conveys time, we feel like listening/watching until exhaustion to this emotional farewell to boyhood. (Miguel Valverde)
Two African-American twenty-somethings wake up in bed together having no recollection of how they arrived there. It’s clear they’ve had sex. Then, an exercise in the mundane; shake hands, part ways. Hours later, the guy shows up at her apartment. There’s a connection. Wandering the streets of San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon, the pair take in the sights of the city less seen in today’s cinema.The immediacy of their previous physical encounter leads them to explore each other in a succession of moments so intimate the vulnerability they share changes them forever. By the time these two part ways is it literally a brand new day.
Werner Herzog’s bleak vision of a rebellion and the resulting mayhem in an institution. The entire world is inhabited by midgets.
A King and a Queen have the hardest time to marry their daughter…