A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the swamp-flower, protégée of a Socratic Director (and his goat Plato). In a world without women, she is kept safe from the temptations of the flesh by her strict and grotesque Aunt. The sound-track entirely played by the workers (fado and bossa nova singers) reveals parallel narratives of suspicion and conspiracy that unfold to the pace of the unconscious leading to a confrontation between Man and River. Inspired by a hypnotic story by Branquinho da Fonseca (1905-1974).
Three young adolescents meet on a housing estate on the outskirts of La Courneuve, France. On foot and by mini-motorbike, they cross the estate passing their time as best they can.
Camilla Sepulveda has been unemployed for over a year. Now she is trying to get a job as a secretary. Through six chapters and brief interviews we will find out what this long unemployment time has meant to her. Everywhere Camilla goes for a job interview, she will listen to other unemployed women’s points of view and experiences. She knows that after all this time of being unemployed, she will never be the same again.
Lost at sea. Bill and Doug pass time as they wait without out hope for the mother ship to find them.
One of post-war Japan’s most prominent writers Nakagami Kenji passed away in 1992. His novels and essays express his strong attachment to his homeland Kishu, a mountainous region with a dramatic shoreline opening to the Pacific Ocean. The street alley was another prominent motif in his writings. Aoyama combines Nakagami’s 16mm footage of Kishu and the alleys of its towns with new images shot with cinematographer Tamura Masaki to follow the path of Nakagami’s life and art. Screenwriter Izuchi Kishu travels along with the camera on this cinematic essay.
This triptych takes as its subject iconic 1960s/1970s classic album covers by Simon and Garfunkel, Carole King and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The iconic album cover moment is recreated and then reinserted into linear time and speculative narratives. Part nostalgia, part science fiction, The Album Project explores the margins of the known to discover what could have been.
Lincoln, NM, July 14, 1881. 21-year old outlaw Billy the Kid is gunned down by his friend, sheriff Pat Garrett. A legend is born. And a rumor. Today, a French woman, the film’s Narrator, sets off on a search for Billy the Kid’s shadow in New Mexico just as Lincoln County’s modern day Sheriff Tom Sullivan is opening a murder case into the circumstances that led to the Kid’s escape from jail and his death. The sheriff has one goal: finding the truth. Did Pat Garrett kill Billy the Kid that night or did Billy the Kid escape to Mexico as the century-old rumor has it? The Kid, impersonated by Kris Kristofferson, rises from the dead to give his own account of events.
This documentary film aims at telling about the social and musical destiny of the city of Detroit. Within the maze of the city – after the civil riots of 1967 – are still the marks of different periods of peak, decline and rebirth, from Blues, through Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, Jazz to the Techno Music. The question is: Why is it here that a counter-culture sprung and spread?
A husband and wife take their daughter to a lakeside retreat so she can prepare for her school exams. When a woman from the husband’s past shows up, a murder takes place which the family tries desperately to cover up.
Biography & fiction, history & psychology, an European family from the 30s.
A man, a woman and a house: one space in two tempos breaking up in the same movement. João is a meteorological observer. Marta folds leaflets and puts them in envelopes. João measures time, Marta spreads it out. A love story like a cloud, that rises, thickens, shreds and falls, in a continuous way that is never the same.
A simple tale: old ladies, shivering organists, disgruntled bell-ringers…and a hot water bottle.
A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape.
Days before his 21st birthday, William, a young actor, meets and falls quickly and madly in love with Sara, a seductive yet skittish singer/songwriter. The film follows William as his affair takes him from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room and through the emotional extremities of passion, rage, and need. Yearning for someone to love who loves him back, William’s journey forces him to come to terms with his own past. The Hottest State is based on the book of the same name written by Ethan Hawke.
In a post-apocalyptic world. There are only creatures made of scrap metal.
The filmed diary of Vikash Dhorasoo, a French football player during the football World Cup 2006 in Germany… Substitute is a film from the perspective of the French national player Vikash Dhorasoo and the writer and musician Fred Poulet. Both shoot footage with a super-8 camera: the one his everyday experiences as an increasingly frustrated substitute player for the Équipe tricolore; the other everything that happens during his travels throughout Germany and inside the stadium at all the French games.
A magic realism story about Kgotso, a reclusive stickfighter who lives a solitary life high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho. This is a story about unrequited love, and sacrifice infused with both the cruelty and the beauty of African magic.
In 1999, it’s the year of the German capital’s removal. Karl and Karla spend their last summer together, a German summer, gloomy and melancholy, but at the same time bright and dazzling. While they are traveling through cities and landscape, in order to find the appropriate words for all what is still left to say, the film is tracing the historical and political dimensions, which display themselves in the old capital Bonn and the tensely pushed construction of Berlin.
