After several years spent abroad, Nicolas and Marie return to France to attend the wedding of an old friend. Although the couple is in a crisis they are on the verge of divorce they still go to the ceremony together. Upon arrival, they immediately announc
An entertaining, subjective, fun and a bit melancholic documentary about the director’s father’s inability to finish his documentary about his father and as a logic conclusion the problems with fatherhood. Everyone is Older than I Am tries to continue his work in a meta-film, a film within another, a meeting between parents and their children that shows the personality traits that distinguish them and their different artistic motivations, while talking about the role of truth in art.
A road-movie tracing 15 small places in the United States, all of them named Amsterdam. Two Dutch descent filmmakers, Rogier van Eck & Rob Rombout, cross the country from East to West Coast, from their arrival in New York (former Nieuw Amsterdam) to California. Through encounters and stories of the Amsterdams and of the road in between, this long and arbitrary adventure progressively weaves a singular image of the provincial and unknown small town America.
“Weary eyes search the sky for enemy activity. Nothing. Nothing. Then something…”
In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil.
Forty years on, Mr. Beane croaks his dying wish to Betty, his wife. “Go and find our lost son.” And so
A lamp in love makes everything to be close to its attractiveness, a beautiful fan. In an illustration and animation environment, this romantic short movie leads us to a hilarious outcome.
In a thorough job of housekeeping, Mary, divorced, finds a box of slides and photographs.
Three goats want to cross a bridge over the river. A devil lives under the bridge and the goats have to get past him to get to the other side of the river…
Tomcat is a street cat who wanders unhappily through life. He is not disappointed when a car ends his pitiful existence. But, since cats have nine lives, he returns to earth.
The wits and wisdom of Martin Borges, an old domino and snooker player, who is also a full time philosopher. We are discovering a place out of time, where he is inviting us in a meditation about happiness and loneliness, life and death.
This film portrays a drastic change in the way Portuguese society lives today. Using clothes and moods of characters in accordance with sound, taking them from a high and secure point to a final descent, entering a personal and social disruption.
The global capital in its roars and ecstasies, its infamy and delinquency. Capital is global as an all-embracing relationship connecting places, individuals, objects, images and words, and at the same time a non-relationship, an audiovisual gap between
These are the adventures os a stork who delievers babies. All he wants is: no questions!
My intention was to walk with a small team through Manuel Vicente’s Macau and this promenade full of quirks, food, words and laughter, makes the man appear. Little by little, we find the traits that characterize the architecture of Macau. An oriental place with Portuguese features or a Portuguese with oriental traits. A place that we wanted to rediscover in this documentary, from the events that triggered Manuel Vicente in that territory. Walking and wandering around town with him, as a flannêur, we discover his architectural work, geometrically very pronounced in external lines, his brand in the urban landscape. (Rosa Cabral)
Several animation techniques bring to life a daily chart of relationships, agreements and disagreements, misunderstandings, vague feelings, the rush for something to happen, self-esteem, sexual desire and conflicting emotions. An abstract poem in the form of film, with the color blue in the background. (C. R.)
In February 1971, one month after the revelations of the My Lai massacre, an astonishing public inquiry into war crimes committed by American forces in Vietnam was held at a Howard Johnson motel in Detroit. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War organized t
Rudy and Jacob Carges are two twin boys who are best friends, yet completely different. Rudy is athletic, brave and charismatic while his twin Jacob is quiet, timid and deeply affected by the unsightly birthmark on his face. Malee, a precocious only child of a single, emotionally detached mother, and Leonard, an overweight boy from an obese family, make up the twins’ close-knit group of friends. When Rudy dies in a fire, Jacob, Malee and Leonard each deal with this tragic event in different ways. Malee, who thinks that she is mature enough to deal with her feelings on her own, becomes obsessively fascinated with one of her mother’s patients, Gus. Leonard loses his sense of taste and proceeds to adopt a strict diet and exercise regime, which he tries to force onto his family as well. Jacob, who feels that he let his brother down by not going with him that night to the tree house, must deal with his own guilt, anger and feelings of inadequacy and betrayal…
Shot in super 8, Goodbye Mr. António draws inspiration from a text by Fernando Pessoa.