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Aurora arrived recently to the building and knows its new neighbor, José, in the runner. After two encounters, José invites Aurora to see a film in its house. Aurora accepts the invitation, that accidentally happens on the Christmas Eve. They end up having dinner, the alcohol breaks down their silence and they begin telling each other personal stories.
An investigation into the authenticity of home movies. In 12 minutes, the director refutes the idealized image he had of his parents, and reveals how an international drama gave their marriage a new beginning. When his father was kidnapped with the Israeli Olympic team during the 1972 Games, and was the only released hostage, his mother came to her senses in Munich. The marriage endured, and one week after his father’s return, the filmmaker was born.
Nea Pintea…The Model is the story of Marin Pintea former model at the Bucharest Art Academy – the story of a very peculiar idea about art and one’s own existence. Beyond this, the film is a story about the failed immortality attempts for each of us and after all about time and death.
Village of Reboleiro, north of Portugal. 103 old people live at Santa Catarina Residence. They used to be country people. The major part of those old people have missed already the idea of Time in a strange Space for them. There’s a great desire to communicate, they don’t want to be alone. They need to come back to their homes.
After the split of Czechoslovakia in 1992, former political dissident, leader of the Velvet Revolution, playwright and essayist Vaclav Havel became the first president of a new country, the Czech Republic. He permitted his friend, filmmaker Pavel Koutecky, to be with him, to capture as much of it as possible, whether in the Prague Castle or around the world. The result is a feature-length documentary of never-before-seen footage that provides an intimate look at a man thrust into the spotlight of international politics and celebrity, trying to maintain a balance between public and personal life while bringing his nation out of its communist past and into a free, democratic future.
Joseph, a nine-year-old African boy, is the new boy in school. Based on a story by Roddy Doyle.
Nigredo is a non-story film, a musical experiment about the morning routine. In the bathroom the water runs black from the tap and instead of getting clean, the human gets dirty as a consequence of destroying the planet.
Documentary focuses on the institutions of prison and psychiatric hospitals. Behind high walls, these institutions are often social cul-de-sacs, or simply existential dead-ends. On the other hand, the film leads directly to heaven. Even God (at least one) is already there! With a sure instinct, using precise, slow shots, it show us the Calugareni Neuropsychiatric Centre. An alternative universe that floats above all else, naked and sublime.
When Daniel’s mother dies of cancer, he can’t figure out the real weight of her loss. But during the first Christmas without her, the boy’s splitted between the urgent need of finding her living rests and the efforts of dealing with an unskilful father. Unexpectedly, Daniel accedes to a moment of his parent’s life that will perhaps destroy the tender image of his mother, forever.
The new villages are surrounded by industrial areas and roads which give a sense of conquest to the boys that grew up there. The car against the sleaze shared between friends. Tuning, street racers… There, they are all alike, it only takes having affection for their cars and with them… make your ground.
Three teenage criminals escape from a juvenile detention facility. As they try to leave the country [Romania], they come across a prostitute and a truck driver.
Parked somewhere between the poetic and the anthropological. The film displays considerable wit and a casual structure. We drop in on fragments of conversations and small dollops of ambiance, but this approach results in a film that leaves a warm overall impression. Silva’s film seems to imply that he’s an impure filmmaker, a bastard child who draws on available traditions but weaves them into unexpected realms of experience.
A bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania and those who stay behind. The plot has three different stories that interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters.
Like a disoriented Ulysses, Marc doesn’t know how to affront his live after finishing his career. The apathy and frustration make him finally accept a curious job in the touristic village where his grandmother lives. The relationship that grows between them, and her sudden death, will make Marc conscious about taking his own decisions.
Two octopuses help each other in a comical escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook. However, even after overcoming insurmountable odds, they see that their fight to stay together is not over.
A plunge into the philosophy and artistry of cult rocker Patti Smith, this portrait explores themes of spirituality, history and self expression: known as the godmother of punk, she emerged in the 1970’s, galvanizing the music scene. We follow this multitalented and private artist over 11 years of international travel, through her spoken words, performances, lyrics, interviews, paintings, and photographs.
A young man who wants to leave his small Romanian village to start life over in Britain. The last thing he must do before the move is to pass a medical examination, an activity that becomes much more difficult than he ever could have anticipated.