Charlotte is a married woman and she works as a doctor. She secretly receives her patients in an immaculately decorated apartment that she rents without her husband knowledge. But are these encounters for real or obsessive sexual fantasies? After “Wolfsbe
A young underwater critter meets a cool frog and unlikely new friend. He then turns their whole world upside down and shows that sometimes you to have to think differently to solve a problem and to beat the bullies… smarts are always gonna be better than brawn.
Snakes are a new accessory in the life of a suited man.
In front of the camera, nine people each evoke a memory.
“The only linking element between the images in this film is my desire to group them together. This is a collection of images and emotions. ” Samer Najari
In Sitting Room a house begins to be swallowed by the ground underneath it and its occupants are too distracted to notice.
A film that has as main actor a complex of tidal pools designed by Siza Vieira, in Leça da Palmeira. More than a record of a work of architecture, this is a film that explores the concepts of space and sound. A film about a place and its entrails, built with the solidity of rigorous plans. (C. R.)
Salt: trace, absence of water, passage of time,invading epidemic, living cemetery.
Water: manoeuvre, absolute value, fertility, rhizomes, chance.
Cotton: corruption, economic issues, hydrophily, desertification.
Voices guide us through the city, while the camera seems to be searching for a specific plot of land, for the coincidence between narrative and image. Using the city of Seoul, personal stories that are being told. Our role is to follow it and select a loc
In a passionate relationship, the defects of the beloved are relativized and love wins. That is why Tina, when discovering that Chris has the fuse a little shorter than most humans, begins to believe that there are several types of solutions for everyday problems in society, some more drastic than others. After all, even the most peaceful road trip has a few mishaps, in this case hilarious. Ben Wheatley delivers refined politeness lessons, sprinkled with blood, in a different approach compared to his previous film, Kill List, but which confirms with the same violence that he is a filmmaker with a voice that calls for attention. (M. M.)
Brillante Mendoza begins with a fabulous and stunning shot of a real birth. Mendoza tosses irony into the hands of a Filipino midwife, Shaleha (Nora Aunor) who, despite having helped hundreds of babies being born, is unable to have children. In a traditional, religious marriage like Shaleha and her husband’s, the continuity of the species is one of the conditions for true matrimonial happiness. The colors of the incredible scenery of the Philippines are so quiet as Shaleha, even when she embodies the crazy chimera of finding a woman to give a biological child to her husband, desire which seemed to have been mitigated by the adoption of his nephew. At the pace of their travels in transparent waters, we follow one by one the castings for a second marriage that ends the anguish of the midwife, much larger than her husband’s, we don’t know why. Shaleha discovers that to see this wish fulfilled, she will have to undergo further trials and ultimately she is not prepared to share love or for all the restlessness that comes with the birth of a child that is not hers. (M. M.)
Living abroad and learning the language is quite an experience. Three written pieces by French-language students demonstrate the first three stages that occur when confronted with a foreign language: trying to understand, speaking/self-correcting and tran
Seven men experience aspects of their masculinity: modesty, exploring one’s limits and power struggles.
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Simon, a young American recently graduated travels to Paris. Unable to cope with the feeling of loss, he becomes involved with a mysterious prostitute and his stay in the French capital extends among lies, blackmail and women. Simon Killer is Antonio Campos’, director of Afterschool, second feature film and builds up around Simon’s character, whom intrigues us with his stories and adventures. A very strong film that proves the talent of one of the most promising filmmakers of independent film today. (C. C.)
The visitors of a cave are faced with the marks of the passage of time, reflecting on these traces. The dark that lights automatically before men and women, goes back to its natural condition when they move away. A river that flows to the interior, demonstrating that the mark of every man is ephemeral. (P. C.)
In an accident, she loses her sight.
Amongst her close ones: the blindness, brutal isolation and a strange perception of the bodies that surround her. Little by little: the sensation of supplementary presence, like a new inhabitant, and the accompagning g
A man travels to a tropical island where he gets to attend at a funeral ceremony called “the turning of the bones”. This new experience will deeply affect his perception and dreams. He sets out on a journey and rediscovers his forgotten lightness of being
An animation that starts from real testimonies of a group of immigrants and transcends into a fun situation, where they have dinner and spend the night at a bear’s house. Each character is represented by a different animal and tells a personal story. A party ends the day while the bear smokes outdoors in silence. (A. P.)