Longing to renew relations with her absent father, a young woman finally finds the courage to confront him with the questions she has always wanted to ask.
Secção: Cinema emergente
It’s sensual! An erotic exploration in a friendly attraction. It’s night! Victor and Rainer are on a train going clubbing. It’s emotional! They exchange their hipster scarfs on the way. It’s sexy! They are looking for lust and seduction while dancing. It’s impulsive! They pick fights on the street just for the sake of it. It’s passionate! They claim each other’s presence in the relationship. It’s mysterious! They are desperately looking for the unknown, a melodrama to make them feel, to make them suffer, cry, a melodrama to make them alive. It’s poetic! They share their feelings and anxieties through subtexual dialogue. It’s tragic! They are young and they already feel hopeless, alone and dead. It’s arrousing! Visually and aurally the film get’s you in such an erotic mood that is hard not to have a mental erection. (Nina Veligradi)
According to Alain Cavalier one only makes good films of whatever one loves. But what if I don’t manage to film my brother well, does that mean I don’t love him? A young cineaste makes several attempts to record the love he feels for his brother and for documentary films, and undergoes several bizarre experiences on the way.
The film invites us to a universe of next door neighbours who usually get together to gossip. They reveal the details of the party that Dan, the hostess’ son, threw in her absence. Little by little, affection, common sense and morals come into conflict. (Miguel Cabral)
“His Excellency, the plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Belgian Crown sacrificed his entire life for his country. His dedication came with a price; he never really had time for me, his son. I thus, decide to come to Brussels to try to make up for lost time.” (Jan Czarlewski)
A young Portuguese boy and his adopted Angolan sister are departing from Lisbon for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their mother realizes they are having a secret love affair. Their father is revealed to be profiting from infrastructure development investments. They have a moral decision to made while on the field of battle.
Every year millions of tourists come to Portugal to discover the country, the people and the culture. Many come in contact with tour guides. They convey history and national identity, illustrating how we regard ourselves and how we wish to present ourselves. The film is about how this identity is built and interpreted.
Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions. In stark, luminous terms, “Wendy and Lucy” addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people’s duty to each other in tough times.
In April 1986, Maxim Surkow was evacuated to Kiev three days after the Chernobyl catastrophe – along with 48,000 of the other inhabitants of Pripjat. Now he is searching for traces of his childhood among the apartment blocks of a ghost town.
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David e Eric, dois irmãos nos seus vinte anos, gerem “The Ranch”, o snack bar de um parque de campismo perdido entre as dunas de uma fabulosa praia da Normandia. Estamos no fim da estação, surfistas e turistas escasseiam. Dominado pela “inércia” geral, David e Bouclette (a instrutora do clube de póneis) tentam planear o período de época baixa e os meses que se aproximam. No entanto, Eric, o irmão mais velho, parece atormentado. Já está “noutra”. Certo dia, desaparece de vez.
A tale of obsession set in 1978 Santiago, Chile. It follows an off-the-rails, impoverished, over-the-hill imitator of John Travolta’s character in “Saturday Night Fever,” who goes to any lengths to win a cash prize and recognition in a dance-like-Travolta TV contest. Meanwhile, tanks rumble through the city’s streets as Pinochet’s regime clamps down on antigovernment activists, including the man’s dance group members.
The film develops a narrative that combines the naïve simplicity of fairytales and Nordic erotic movies from the 1970s.
They dream of a life, most of us take for granted. Filmed in Chile over the course of a year, this poetic film follows two young women, named Solange. They share common ground in their struggle to be with the one person they love under the pressures and challenges from the outside world.
In peaceful Halftone City, a mysterious heroine and a brave ally face the ultimate threat.
The young Canadian Xavier Dolan returns after his impressive debut “I Killed my Mother” (IndieLisboa 2010). A popish looking love triangle between two best friends, Francis (the director himself) and Marie, that both fall madly in love with Nico, a curly
Yusuf is uncertain about his future in the provincial countryside. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are starting to be published in obscure literary journals. But for the time being, he continues working in his widowed mother’s village milk business, also with an uncertain future. Still a young and beautiful woman, Zehra is having a discreet relationship with the town station master. His mother’s affair, and being named unfit for military service due to a childhood illness, make Yusuf even more anxious about making the sudden jump toward manhood.
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she’s left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
“Snow does not fall to cover the hill, but for every beast to leave it’s trail.” Eastern Bosnia, 1997. Six women, a grandfather, four girls and a young boy live in war ravaged and isolated village of Slavno. Their families and friends had been killed and their bodies had never been found. The first snow brings full isolation and risk for life in the village. Villagers face a dilemma: should they accept the offer that could save their lives, but destroy their souls. A sudden storm traps two businessmen in Slavno, forcing them to face a problem bigger than anything they expected – the truth!