Drama/Mex is a bitter-sweet telling of three intense human relationships stories that are interlaced during one night in contemporary Acapulco. Once upon a time a luxurious port, now in decadence, Acapulco serves as a background for a suicidal old man, for a 15 year old runaway girl and for a young couple who face the hardships of separation after a tragic break up. We see glimpses of a night that will change their lives and our perception, as we see different points of view of the events.
In a world without men, two robots embark on an odyssey across a stark American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human. A magical, musical, mythic road movie from Daft Punk (the musical style and name of the two directors music band, not included in the film’s music). “
Five More Minutes is an exploration into grief. Two women spend an afternoon recreating time with one of their mothers. What begins as play-acting is broken open into a world where the sweetness of love and the agony of having to say goodbye exist side by side.
Fifty-six-year-old Argentino Vargas arrives in Buenos Aires. Standing in the main lobby of the San Martin Theater, he waits for someone to come and take him up to the tenth floor for a screening of the film in which he has the lead role. He has never set foot in a cinema. Misael Saavedra, who has also been invited to the screening, loses his way in the theater trying to find the screening room. The tall building, its rest rooms, staircases, elevators and workshops are the real protagonists of a mystery encountered by two men who are strangers to this setting.
For 15 years now, the parents have been leading an underground existence, hiding among the anonymous tourists on the beaches of Portugal. They have broken a taboo: they have conceived a daughter. A girl who has never swapped clothes with her friends, never skipped classes in school, camped out at lakes or got drunk. A girl who is alone. The parents are just about to establish some sort of legal identity for themselves in Brazil, when a slight negligence causes everything to fall apart around them. And again they are on the run, which brings them back to Germany. Meanwhile, their daughter has fallen in love. A love which will lead to a tragedy and destroy the family.
Lucio, a man without a way that comes from Buenos Aires, arrives to the ‘Yellow’, a brothel from a small town in Argentina. There meets Amanda, a prostitute without hope in life. This encounter offers them a possibility to get their lives better.
Attitude is a small detail that makes a big difference. Here’s the time to talk about another side of Coimbra, an Portuguese university city. This is the story of one of the city’s most famous exports ‚ the Tedio Boys. The first of its kind with visibility and, more than any other label, a certain attitude. As a result, the city’s visual landscape changed ever since.
France, summer, 1944: The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the war…
It’s the last summer in Falkenberg. Five childhood friends who have become young men. David who yearns to be a child again and Holger who never wants to move away. Two best friends that escape to the forest and to the ocean, away from the future. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jorgen finances his catering company, Breakfast in bed by burglarizing houses. And John, always in a bad mood, yet believes that bacon makes him happy. The future looms at the horizon, but all of them won’t be there to see it.
The leaflet promised a fantastic day of fun in a bus tour that would take us sightseeing around the country. The trip, only for people over twenty-five, would also include a delicius lunch, presents and a demonstration of items for your home and health. An outing not to be missed, said the the pamphlet.
George works a lot and forgot his past, all his wifes. For his work he goes in a town he seems to know.
Coney Island, the world`s first amusement park at the lower end of New York was once called the biggest playground of the world. The area has changed surviving through repetitive cycles of self-preservation. Caught in the stasis of an imagine romantic past. S8 mm and DV material shot by the director, found footage and texts by Rem Koolhaas are woven into an insistent tapestry of sound and image.
One night in Bangkok, Jon meets a mysterious woman. Together, they embark on a journey to a foreign land – the human heart.
By processing a handful of shots of casually acquired black and white film material, Kämmerer has a boy incessantly climb and descend the stairs of a house. Dressed in a tie and overalls he seems to be the precocious engineer of a machine which compels him to his escalations. (Thomas Korschil)
Guide Dog is a sequel to the Oscar nominated Guard Dog. This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results. “
When Derek was a young boy, his father called him Elvis. On his birthday he got a white suit and his hair straightened. In his bedroom, posters of Jimi Hendrix hanged on the walls and Derek was playing cowboy, but in the living room, the music of the King was playing. In the end he could’t take it anymore and the father had to die. Now a young man, Derek calls himself Jimi, wears a wild curly wig and looks for a new father. But when this one also dies, Derek asks the dead man a question that his real father never answered: Why Elvis?
Lussi is a well behaved little girl, but has to change her ways.
Miyako Murakami is an embalmer who discovers a needle in the eye socket of the corpse of a young man named Yoshiki, the son of a prominent politic, believed to be a suicide. The same day, Miyako is threatened by a religious crackpot who believes that embalming is a sin. Meanwhile thieves using knockout gas steal Yoshiki’s head from his body from the hospital in broad daylight…