From Far Away is a documentary dealing with a journey through Turkey. The director made this journey from May-June 2005. The route led through Istanbul and Ankara to the south-eastern part of the country, to Ganziantep; then further to the East on through Diyarbakir e Van to reach Dogubayazit, near the Iranian border.The film depicts scenes from this journey, offering a different view of contemporary Turkey: fringe impressions of everyday life in the western cities like Istanbul and Ankara, then onto the eastern regions which until recently were the front lines of internal conflict.
Counting Water is a fable about what happens when one person is forced to prove their love for another. Based loosely on a song from Philip Glass’ 1976 Opera, Einstein on the Beach, the animation asks the question: Can everything be broken down into pieces? And if so, can they be put back together? How many drops of water does the ocean really hold?
It’s now seven months over my mother’s death. I am facing the S. Miguel island sea, the family land in the Azores. Between the newborn babies, I found my Grandaunt, 91 years old, waiting for her moment to part. At night my family speaks to me of God and death. During the day we swim in the island’s volcanic sea, where I find Florence and Beru, a French couple that is crossing the Atlantic in the Balaou, a sailing boat. They invite me to come with them. Divided in three moments and eight lessons, Balaou” is a voyage to accept the oblivion of things. “
A husband and wife remain sexually active in later life to the disgust of their son, but who is it that has the problem?
Shot during the April 23rd Children’s Day, which marks the establishment of the new Turkish Parliament, and the official demise of the Ottoman Empire back in 1920, this split screen film documents a pompous patriotic performance devised by elders to be performed by children. Hosted by the mayor and governor of Istanbul.
A glimpse into a unique subculture: the world of African-American drag racing. Set in and around Charlottesville, Virginia, it is an experimental feature film about the consistent routine of a bank teller (Erin) and a mechanic (John) as they prepare for the sport of drag racing. Once the routine is disrupted, the result of the race comes into doubt.
Bugcrush is the story of Ben, a small-town school loner, whose fascination with Grant, a dangerously seductive new kid, leads him into something much more sinister than he could ever have imagined.
Arriving in Tokyo, Yoichi meets older Michio, who gets him a job in the yakuza-owned nightclub where he works. A country boy with guts but no grasp of big-city rules, Yoichi immediately makes an enemy of club manager Matsuo, at the same time impressing mob boss Otani with his courage. Intervening when he sees Matsuo mistreating his lover, Yuko, Yoichi gets a knife wound and a discarded gangster’s moll for his troubles. Recruited by Otani to collect gambling debts, Yoichi and Michio witness the absence of passion between the boss and his girl, Miya. Moving in on Michio, Miya confides in him that Otani is a junkie, driven to drugs by his increasing lack of nerve.
China go downstairs in direction of Martin Moniz district, in Lisbon. When she passes the childreen scream: China, China!. China is flying. To escape far away at down. She just wants to be happy. But China drunks her own poison. She drunks it all. Sometimes air seems loaded with evil, purgatory seems an infant school.
A story about a guy who has been unemployed for a long time, and who has lost his track of time. He lives in his own little world, with only few friends. He lives in a small town, and the film should be about a small-town community. During its preparation the director was looking for places in Berlin where Berlin looked like a small town. The Wall came down during that fall and there was a complete change of atmosphere in the city. It became part of the film itself.
Dogs move slowly and fluidly through the air. Naïveté, freedom and happiness.
Chad, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father… Atim leaves his village for N’djamena, seeking a man he does not know. He quickly locates him: former war criminal Nassara is now married and settled down as the owner of a small bakery… With the firm intention of killing him, Atim gets closer to Nassara‚Ķ Intrigued by Atim’s attitude toward him, Nassara takes him under his wing and teaches him the secrets of making bread… Over the weeks, a strange relationship evolves between the two‚Ķ.
At your disposal is a large room, ideal for celebrating all types of events.
An unhappy photographer who is afraid to die. A woman who is looking for someone to make her pregnant. A girl who is looking for her inner self. A mysterious man who is searching for something but tells everyone a different story. That`s it.
The reminiscence of a night spent walking the streets of the eternal city, following the steps of two young men: Vlad a street kid from eastern Europe and Cosimo the new boy in town. Both of them wander the city from side to side seeking redemption, deliverance, or may be just a hideout. They will find that they’re looking for is the feeling that bonds them together.
Forrest does not live here anymore.
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don’t know whom she represents, what she believes in ‚ we only know she believes it absolutely. The film strips the story down to its existential core. It focuses on microscopic movements, the smallest gestures, an economy of banal details. Inspired in part by a story in a Russian newspaper and playing off a history of Joan of Arc films, the film transpires on the girl’s face. The minimalism of the face is confronted with the visual and aural noise of the city.
Profiling of director John Ford by director Peter Bogdanovich, originally released in 1971, re-edited and expanded in 2006. Original Orson Welles narration and the interviews with Ford, John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda have been kept intact, but this is a more personal version. This updated version is much richer and contains an enormous amount of information that was not included in the original. Bogdanovich’s interviewed himself and speaks about Ford sense of spirituality, his emphasis on family in his films and his legendary relationship with Katherine Hepburn.The whole new version is warmer as has an emotional thread that takes you along, as opposed to a chronological timeline.
