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Colin takes Cumberland to the park, but the dog has other ideas.
October 19, 2007. President George W. Bush is in Chicago to address local business leaders. Angry crowds greet him: a massive anti-war demonstration. The mood is volatile, ugly. Security forces struggle to contain outbreaks of violence; undercover officers take preemptive action against potential threats to the President’s safety. His speech made, the President insists on meeting and greeting his supporters in the lobby of downtown Chicago’s Sheraton Hotel. It is 7.11 pm. Sudden gunfire. The President is hit. Pandemonium ERUPTS. President George W. Bush is rushed to hospital where he dies, 5 hours later.
Irina Hoppe’s documentary feature film focuses on four weeks of everyday life of a group of juvenile migrant gang members from the Berlin districts Kreuzberg and Wedding. Their parents are mainly from Turkish or Arabic origin, but they were born in Germany, a fact that causes specific, yet casual identity-strategies of the portrayed. In contrast to the often hyprocitical and speculative attempts to exploit the life of second generation migrants in movies Hoppe’s film concentrates on a nonchalantly observing method.
Destricted invited seven artists to make short films representing their views on sex and pornography. The result is a collection of sexy, humorous, stimulating and provocative scenarios. Destricted boasts a heavyweight line-up of the most acclaimed directors and artists of our time; Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood, Marina Abramovic, Marco Brambilla and Gaspar Noé. These distinctive and entirely uncensored films portray very different points of view, revealing diverse attitudes about how we represent ourselves sexually.
A small girl and a cat turn sour on each other. A rainfall reconciles them.
Two swimmers living on a attic spent years planning a journey throughout the the English Channel, but they don’t get close to action. One morning they take separate decisions. Both projects fail, the hope continues.
A young couple in Berlin’s Mitte district. He, a writer but is now lying on the sofa, reading all day long. She can’t stand it anymore. ln the afternoon the parents corne to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits desperately. When she returns home late at night, she finds that nothing has changed. Except that now all the repressed silence and apathy bursts out and leads to a tragedy.
Three long weeks have passed and the Polish R. Orloff is still hanging around with 1 million German Marks in a suitcase in a hotel somewhere in a German village. The only thing he’s thinking about: How could he leave for South America. One morning he reads an advertisement in the local newspaper: Attractive woman, 26 years, looking for a partner to start a video-correspondence … “
One day the imaginative little Gilda finds out she can fly.
Grace, the newborn of an American upper-class family, exchanges her place with Doug, the little baby dog of a white trash American family.
Martina and Sofia spent a day in the house yard waiting for a phone call.
18-year-old, freshly graduated Armin is slowly being suffocated by his mother’s well-meaning, his father’s expectations, the lethal boredom of suburban life. His brothers have long since left home. They are a shining example of how to live: modern biographical variations of their parents’ lives. But Armin feels paralyzed in this family goodwill. Incapable of resistance, he longs for the starkness and subjugation which no-one at home can give him. He starts randomly making anonymous claims of responsibility for accidents he witnesses, crimes he reads about. It starts as a game and quickly becomes an obsession. Soon, pretending to be guilty just isn’t enough…
A sequel from Henry Fool (1997). Fay Grim is a single Mom from Woodside, Queens, New York, maniacally preoccupied with raising her 14 year old son, Ned, so he won’t grow up to be like his father. His father, Henry, is missing. Seven years earlier, he accidentally killed a vicious neighbor and fled– never to be seen or heard from again.
Fengjie, China, 2005. Painter Liu Xiao-dong goes to the region of the Three Gorges to make a series of paintings in oil. He paints 12 laborers at work dismantling installations in the region that will be flooded to build an enormous dyke. Fengjie with its 2000 years of history is soon to be destroyed. After the completion of the Three Gorges Project, the town will be completely submerged. During his stay with the laborers, the artist is gradually taken by this hard reality.
The starting point for this film was the offer to make a documentary for TV on the topic the worker at the end of the 20th century. Instead, this film was made, that – starting from the rationalization of the service sector in the 1990s – radically questions the common understanding of how to represent workers/work in documentary films.
Johnnie To returns to the characters of his international success The Mission with this action-packed thriller. It’s 1998, and the Portuguese colony of Macau, a city along the Southern coast of China, is about to be handed over to Chinese authorities under a long-standing agreement. As the people of Macau ponder how their new leaders will deal with the criminal underground that’s long been part of the city’s support system, a pair of hit men from Hong Kong arrive in town to execute a gangster who has turned his back on the syndicate to make a new life for his wife and children‚Ķ
It is said that Floripes, an enchanted mourish girl, wanders about the village of Olhão, every night, sad and doomed. Hostage of her enchantment, she represents the fear and suffering of this fishermen’s community, whom, dazzled by the spell of the fair and mysterious woman, would die when attempting to cross the seas. This myth is the excuse to evoke their dreads and our greatest fear – death.