Wolfgang Schmidt’s brilliant graduation film tells a complex high-modernistic fable about the entangled sailors’ revolutionary energies in Germany around 1917/18. The hierarchy and functional architecture of a simulated battleship (solely created by using existing Berlin buildings) provide the film with a beautiful, breathtaking and irritatingly godardienne montage-centered form.
Aoyama’s entry into the long running series of Mike Yokohama detective films: Private eye Mike Yokohama is the central character, who undertakes an exhaustive search for the daughter of a rich businessman. But as Yokohama’s snooping leads him out to the woods, where he believes the errant girl may have joined a strange commune. His investigation takes a bizarre turn as he uncovers some abstruse activities taking place in the dank woodland.
Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or not. This follows to lines of argument – that by buying Croatian produced goods they are supporting Croatian agriculture and that domestic products are more familiar and more tasty, although it is not the origin of the goods but the method of its production that counts.
A vibrant split-screen musical finale to The Patterns Trilogy. Pauline, having washed her hands all night, suffers from the driest of hands. Michael, having sent her paper airplane love letters all night, has a bad case of paper cuts. With damaged hands and anguished hearts, Pauline and Michael reveal through song the nature of their enigmatic relationship.
A young parking garage attendant with hat and trench coat and long arms conducts the cars to the one or other exit. The precise operation appears like the choreography of a powerful dance. The character of images and the musical composition annihilate boundaries, outside world and inner world merge.
A young lady, Alhelí, with a sparkly eyes searches for invisible lines where she finds herself on a stranger and her own dead in a faraway place.
The first 110 years of the Portuguese cinema history in short and made almost exclusively with archive footage from the series History of the Portuguese Cinema produced in 1998 by Pedro Efe. It conjugates film clips and testimonies of some of its most relevant contributors. The film tries to report this history chronologically, in an accessible, concise and didactic way, in spite of some gaps.
Who is that strange boy sitting quietly in the corner of a bus full of screaming fans going to the football match? In fact, this shy boy is a girl in disguise. She is not alone, women also love football in Iran. Before the game begins, she is arrested at the check point and put into a holding pen just by the stadium with a band of other women all dressed up as men. They will be handed over to the vice squad after the match. They must endure every cheer, every shout of a game they cannot see. Yet, these young girls just won’t give up. They use every trick in the book to see the match. A smart comedy illustrating the fight for women’s rights in Iran.
Old Joy is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. As the hours progress and the landscape evolves, the twin seekers move through a range of subtle emotions, enacting a pilgrimage of mutual confusion, sudden insight, and spiritual battle.
A small town in the mountains. A single hospital. While failing a suicide attempt in the nearby forest, a night nurse (Frédérique, 24) seriously wounds a teenager (Marco, 13) who lands in her ward. No one saw her with her rifle. Everybody thinks of a crazy hunter. In a panic, Frédérique realizes that she is going to have to tend to this boy whose aggressiveness has already terrorized her colleagues. While these two savages learn to tame one another, Frédérique deliberately leaves a trail of hints that will lead Marco to imagine the unimaginable : this gentle nurse who cares for him is the one that almost killed him‚Ķ
Inspired by The Abduction of Sita from the great classic of ancient Indian and South East-Asian literature the Ramayana, Opera Jawa is a musical like no other in cinema. It tells of a passionate love triangle that leads inexorably to conflict, violence and death. Setio and his wife Siti, run a pottery business in a small village where Ludiro, a powerful and ruthless butcher, controls all the trading activities. When the couple’s business collapses, Ludiro, who has always been in love with Siti, seizes his chance, abducts and tries to seduce her. Inevitably the two men begin to fight over Siti…
A big city. A tiny apartment. There, in solitude, live an old woman and her cat, stuck in their daily chores against the hiss of the city. The windows look out into more windows with more desolate lives. The old woman, however, has a secret window: her precious collection of match boxes. Their printed labels open into a myriad of exotic worlds. The cat is the sole companion in her explorations.
Frogs and people aren’t that different after all.
Rabbit Stories is a study of mental illness; a portrait of a young schizophrenic man called Fenton Fuller. “
– What if I was a teacher? One who teaches numbers… My students would learn how to count to infinity in an hour… Those who couldn’t would get punished! – That’s it, Maria! My dream is to fly…
Miro, a music note is bored on a score by Bach. A female note will help him.
Frank comes back from somewhere and he finds the shared dwelling deserted and empty. Just a note stuck to the stove. From here he begins the attempt to regain his old life.
When his sister dies, 32-year old August returns home and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as the famous porn-star The Princess is dead after years of drug abuse. She leaves behind her 5-year old daughter Mia, whom August feels obliged to take care of. Weighed down by grief and guilt he decides to revenge the death of Christina – and takes Mia on a mission to destroy all existing pornographic material featuring her mother. The mission escalates into a violent route where he desperately tries to protect the only precious thing in his life, Mia. In the end he makes a fatal decision that costs him dearly.