An old Italian who has retired to the woods of Vermont meets a filmmaker and seizes the occasion to look back on his long life. Wartime memories trigger recollections of his past as a child soldier in the ranks of the Decima Mas, one of the most violent fascist militias.
The Roundy-belly-wolf lived with a round belly, but all empty. One day, by chance, he found out a hidden talent to finally fill his tummy.
An aging actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, is preparing to shoot a death scene. But the shooting comes to a halt which leads him away, into an abandoned house where he finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead lover.
After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: he is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. But is he really the sole survivor?
The disappointments of a short-sighted and harmless hunter who took with him by mistake a rabbit instead of his dog to go hunting in the forest.
An ordinary class with ordinary children and an ordinary teacher. Or maybe not? The lives of Mr Frans’ pupils are turned upside down when they discover that their teacher sometimes turns into a frog. This is very inconvenient, as the new and very strict headmaster Stork would like to see the enthusiastic, but slightly chaotic Mr Frans leave as soon as possible.
In an apartment in Lisbon, Marta takes care of her newborn daughter while convalescing from childbirth. In these first days they receive visits from family and friends. As they get involved in the intimacy of her home they start narrating stories about marriage, childbirth, first jobs, expectations and plans for the future.
The penguin-waiter wants the penguin-party to be perfect.
We are in Alentejo, Portugal, during the 1950’s, and the land is pierced by wind, unemployment and hunger. Rich families own the land and have the power. Poor families are left only with despair or rage. Based on the classical Portuguese neo-realist novelSeara de Vento.
In a cold winter afternoon it is good to be in a warm pool, where so many different people come to bathe.
Schneewittchen examines what happens to dead bodies after death in the cases of dictator’s mausoleums, museum stuffed animals and religious relics.
In Strange-Map, the director leads us in a personal trip around the eight houses he has lived in and the act of roaming itself.
A small boy taking a walk picks up a little line he finds lying on the sidewalk. Putting it in his pocket, he forgets about it entirely. Then the line starts to move: it’s alive!
The director remembers several of the his beloved family members who have deceased: The Dead.
Tara Moarta is built upon what a huge collection of recently discovered Costică Acsinte’s photographs from the 1930’s and 40’s (and a jewish doctor’s journal from the same time) reveal about Romania and what they do not show.
Three siblings play hide-and-seek, read to each other, roughhouse and tumble with their dog: at first glance, they lead an unburdened childhood life. But they are completely alone, and the forest is just outside, and wasn’t there something about a big bad wolf?
By the director of the monumental Shoah, this is a documentary on four Jewish women who witnessed and survived the most insane and ruthless savagery, and whose memories deserve to be etched for ever more in human memory.
Director Inês Oliveira adapts the traditional Portuguese taleThe Frog and the Girl. The laundromat is closed and a young woman (Rita Cabaço) has to learn how to wash her clothes by hand with the wise Deolinda (Isabel Ruth), who tells her a strange fairy tale.