Isra and Cheíto are two Roma brothers: Isra was sent to prison for drug dealing and Cheíto signed up for the Marines. When one is released from prison the other returns from a long mission, and it is time for a family reunion.
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Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald or (méfiez-vous des lunettes noires) is a curious “film within the film,” Cléo de 5 a 7’s burlesque segment in “silent movie style”, with Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard playing the role of two young lovers: a boy sees life in black when he wears sunglasses, he only needs to remove them to make things better. Agnès Varda said that the idea came to her by the desire to film Godard’s “big Buster Keaton eyes”, and he accepted to take off the dark glasses he wore at that time. In the structure of Cléo, it corresponds to a moment of distension, and has also been presented as an autonomous short film. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
Zahra (12) is from Afghanistan, and an asylum seeker in Norway. She has a dream but making it true turns out difficult for her.
A woman lives in a small village, a remote place where time stands still. Between mourning and loneliness, she wanders through uninhabited spaces.
Ana, a Portuguese actress, has come to Rio de Janeiro to play the lead in a mysterious film about Carmen Miranda, the eccentric Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer who put Brazil on the map for its samba and carnival culture.
After a “minor” operation at the vet, a young cat starts putting on more and more weight. Her owners start calling her “Butterball” instead of her usual name “Bamboo”. She then gets the nickname “Butterboo”!
Francis and Thomas kidnap Wilfrid, the owner of a carwash business. But against expectations he finds pleasure in the situation. Uncertainty takes hold of the two buddies and everything goes sour when their girlfriends come and join them.
After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones, he must now reinvent himself…
During the French presidential election, 25-year-old Pierre is divided between Macron and Le Pen.
With a slower pace than other Fassbinder films, Chinese Roulette is a closed-space game: a couple spends the weekend in a castle, separately, each with his (her) lover and surprisingly meet face to face. The couple’s daughter, a physically disabled pre-teen, sets in motion a cruel “truth game” all weekend. The four characters of the exchanged couples and four others cohabit the space of the castle in the time of the film, participating in the threatening environment in which the threat of Nazism hovers and the restlessness of an enigma to unveil. (Cinemateca Portuguesa)
Mr. Gnome is sunbathing in his garden when suddenly a little cloud hides the sun. He is pretty annoyed but fortunately, he knows precisely what to do with such clouds.
Quinquin grew up and is now called Coincoin. Meanwhile, commander Van der Weyden is canvassing the countryside where strange magma falls from the sky onto the inhabitants who begin to manifest an odd behavior. The extraterrestrial invasion begins.
Bigger than life, dressed in a suit and tie, papa appears at the window one evening, with a gift for his son.
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. A tribute screening to Hans Hurch, preceded by a video presentation of the film by the late critic and curator.
Studying away from home and what thoughts may be behind it.
A pilot’s face has been replaced by a turbine and he’s fallen in love with a ceiling fan. What will his wife do to save their marriage?
In a fish shop, once night falls, two soloists interpret with great emotion Verdi’s Traviata offering us a really fancy choreography.
A personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cocoa. Traveling through São Tomé and Príncipe, England and Brazil, the director walks us from past to present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression.