Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art and a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. “
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Set mainly in rural Japan and shot in sepia, Eureka tells the story of a young boy and girl who are on a bus when it is hijacked by a crazed killer. They, along with the bus driver, are the only survivors and flee together. But upon their attempted return to their normal lives, Makoto becomes a suspect in a series of murders and the children become orphaned. These numerous unfortunate events bring the three, along with the orphans’ cousin back together, forming a family and working toward reconciliation from the shared hijacking experience.
Viola lives quietly with her daughter Angéla in a small flat in Budapest. Viola is still a beautiful woman. Angéla is ashamed of her mother. Communication between them has become almost impossible. They are together only to watch their favorite television series; they never miss an episode. Probably, in secret, they both are in love with the protagonist. Viola works where no one else wants to – as a toilet supervisor in the metro. She is looking for a real man whom she could love. Angéla would like to design nice dresses. She desires something different. Another life. Fresh air.
At the end of the 1990s Mohammed Fazazi became Imam of the mosque in Hamburg. In January of 2000, during the last few days of Ramadan, Fazazi held a number of ‚Äòlessons’ in the mosque’s prayer room, during which those present were able to pose questions on various aspects of life that they would normally have to submit in writing. These sessions were recorded on video tape anonymously and distributed in the mosque’s book shop, but also outside the mosque. After the attacks of 11/9/2001, it became known that three of the four suicide pilots, but also others ‚ members of the so-called Hamburg Group ‚ had attended the mosque regularly, and were in close contact with Imam Fazazi.
June 14, 1935. And yet, much later. It’s already autumn and it’s still hot – the heat never goes away. In a remote place in Paraguay, an elderly peasant couple Candida and Ramon are waiting for their son who left to fight the Chaco War. They are also waiting for the rain to come, it keeps announcing its arrival but it doesn’t come; and for the wind that never comes either; and for the heat to go away but it never does in spite of the season; and for the dog to stop barking but it will never stop; and all in all, they are waiting for better times to come. The instant of the eternal waiting is found between the before and the after of time.
Fouad is a business man of about sixty, of Lebanese origin. He and a colleague are traveling through Styria, a mountainous region in Austria. On their way to a business meeting at a textile factory, they get lost in a village that Fouad knows from his past. Walking down the roads and through the forests, Fouad finds he’s feeling a profound sense of strangeness in these places that are nevertheless familiar to him.
Morten the hedgehog acquires a baby brother and decides to get rid of him.
Holly and her best friend are challenged to a girls against boys game.
The three brave men help forester to save animals from hunters.
Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends. Featuring animation by Bob Sabiston (Waking Life), and a rare dramatic performance by legendary French porn star Rebecca Lord, I Am a Sex Addict is Zahedi’s unique brand of comedy at its confessional best.
A relentless portrait of Japanese youth where the protagonists are bound together in increasingly strange and violent ways over the course of a single day.
A digital age motion study inspired by the chronophotographic work of Etiènne-Jules Marey. The signature scene from the Hollywood musical Singin’ in the Rain is split into seven layers. Each layer is moving at a different speed and is visible equally in superimposition. The result uncovers a new cinema, music and dance that are buried within the familiar iconic sequence.
After being robbed and attacked one night in Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao-kang, a homeless Chinese man, is rescued and taken in by some Bangladeshi workers. One of them, Rawang, lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he had found on the street. Later, when Chyi, a waitress at a coffee-shop, meets Hsiao-kang, she is filled with lustful desire. As Hsiao-kang slowly recovers, he finds himself caught between Rawang and Chyi ‚ as well as Chyi’s female boss. Meanwhile, a heavy haze descends on the city that is so humid that it stinks of the perspiration of its multi-ethnic people. These men and women and the old mattress lose their way in the haze but find one another‚Ķ
A rare and true icon of modern music, Herbie Hancock continues to bring audiences new and inventive visions of music. In August 2005, the Possibilities album was released, featuring the collaborative talents of a legendary lineup of artists. The film showcases this musical project in development and design, as Herbie interacts with such artists as Christina Aguilera, John Mayer, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, Sting and others.
Jaime Ícaro works on a weekly tv magazine. At the end of another dull working day he recieves a fax from Teresa, his girlfriend, breaking up from their one year relation. Jaime leaves the office reading the fax, and only a few minutes latter realises that Lisbon is not having a normal rush hour‚Ķ
What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman ‚ Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, the film brings us back to the late 1970’s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had. Comprised of news footage, commercials and Bryant’s own home movies.
Martine and Arnaud are two French citizens. He is 28-years-old, he is married with two children ‚ 2-year-old twins. He is an engineer. She is 66-years-old. A retired sociologist. She is partially handicapped. They have never met. We interviewed them with the desire to make an animated documentary on themes as wide as citizenship, politics and political commitment.
A queer rewriting of the events surrounding the 1968 National Democratic Convention from the point of view of French writer Jean Genet. Along the way Genet will meet, amongst others, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, the Yippies, the Black Panther Party and the Chicago Police force… Ultimately, the video is about the difficulty of aligning political and sexual desires.