Ernst and Mother are going to the indoor swimming pool. While Mother is getting the tickets, Ernst catches sight of a pretty girl…
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They thought life would have been simple. All obligations and problems involved in material life would find a natural solution. Each morning, it would be nice to seat at the kitchen table. After a shower and before getting dressed, they would have breakfast. On the table there would be butter, pots of candy and toasts. It would be early. It would be the beginning of a long day of work.
May 2002. Like David against Goliath, Leixões Football Club faces Sporting in the Portugal Cup’s final. As in a procession, the supporters of both clubs religiously head to the stadium. Through their faces and reaction, we watch as the football game changes into a messianic spectacle.
“Exit” takes point in Hieronymus Bosch¬¥s drawings of disabled; the drawings are used as documentary images where the disabled are put into a nightmare-like situation where several limping, disabled people being chased by a fire coming down a 1000 metres long corridor. They seem to be victims of a demonic, grim contemporary version of a gladiator game. Every time the fire consumes someone, the applause from the loudspeakers covering the walls, crescendos. Some of the people manage to save themselves with the help of a helicopter waiting for them.
Färgelanda, a small village outside of the town Uddevalla on Sweden’s west coast. Images from the surrounding areas and the railway station, the Lelenge Line with steam locomotive and passengers.
We are four eggs small, we drove into a wall, no safety belts we had and that was very bad.
A cyclical fairy tale in which a man and a woman are cursed to be forever apart, except when they are transformed into animals. But when they are, their passions are overshadowed by their hunting instincts.
The creeping glaciers, barren highland sands and dark raging seas full of ghosts form a backdrop to the raw energy of the music. Icelandic music hit the international scene with Bjork and the Sugarcubes. In the last decade, several bands and solo acts have followed suit. Sigur Rós, Múm, Bang Gang, Mugison, Minus and Slowblow are a few of the more recent names and there are even more unpronounceable ones to look forward to in the coming years. “It’s different,” is most people’s first reaction on hearing this diverse but highly original music. “Where is all this coming from?”
Video performance by and with Portuguese poet Alberto Pimenta.
A tailor listens to a small radio by day and to a little teacher in the evening. The tailor has not a lot to say. Quite natural : he is waiting for the comeback of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the first French folk-singer.
This drama in three acts depicts the journey of the Austrian national soccer team to the World Cup finals in France as seen through the eyes of a journalist, a bank examiner and his mother, a pensioner, an alcoholic, a large family, a coach for a child’s team and a blind man. Against the backdrop of the games against Cameroon, Chile and Italy, this film tells a story of faith, love and hope in front of the television screen ‚ the screen which shows some of the world’s inhabitants sitting before it, mesmerized. I should really have made a film that was critical of sports. However, I happen to love soccer. The disparity was bound to prove either fatal or fertile. At all events, I decided against setting up my camera behind the scenes and positioned myself where I’m to be found at any soccer game: sometimes in the stadium, more often in front of a television set. (Michael Glawogger)
Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to rework the story of Frankenstein. In five minutes the monster moves through the very human journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance.
Lucia and Daniel have three children: the eldest is Ezequiel, who now lives in Spain; the middle child is son Jeremias; and the youngest is the rather sullen daughter Meme. Lucia is obsessed with shaping and presenting her small clan as a model family of Argentina’s chattering class. But so consumed is she with this project that she fails to see what is unfolding beneath her very nose. When Ezequiel returns to Argentina just prior to his wedding, he begins to suspect that the natural order of his family is out of kilter. Then one night he is confronted with the terrible truth of family relations.
In an unknown time and unknown place two men strive tirelessly to make contact with another civilization. But the reception is bad so they seek higher ground. They travel through a gloomy and barren world with the hope of a more tolerable existence hopelessly distant.
Greta Garbo as model in a commercial for the department store PUB (Paul U. Bergstrom AB). On the terrace of Strand Hotel and at a picnic in a commercial for Konsum.
“Revolver” is an experimental short film based on repetitive movement. The main intention was to create a film much in the same way as you would create a piece of music; themes that build and develop rather than a traditional narrative.
“I want to describe important issues about Europeans, about responsibility and guilt, moral issues, which are so rare in films. Dekalog by Kieslowski made me believe in filmmaking again.”
(Roy Andersson)
A sudwestern odyssey and an echo of a satire to a parallel Portugal, where cowboys and indians are unemployed…