A woman arrives at an old garner and finishes up by getting involved in an obsessive relationship with a scarecrow.
Secção: Cinema emergente
They walk in pairs door to door and they enter in the houses of those who are willing to hear them. The Elders and the Sisters, young Mormon’s missionaries, they leave their country, they study another language and culture, absorbed by that spirit of mission. They aspire being examples of the perfect boys and girls.
This silent animation is wordless though it is based on words, and develops its form and its theme according to the macabre and subtly necrophilic poem Seemannstreue by Joachim Ringelnatz, in which the first-person narrator tells about burying his deceased bride in the cold ground, then digging her up, and so on.
The setting for this story is a movie house showing pornographic films. This is the place where the characters in the film earn their living, lead their lives and are disappointed by their loved ones. The characters experience life as all of us do. Yet activities happen there that are what we generally know as “immoral”. Immorality has become a way of life as dictated or demanded by our need to survive.
Denim is the supervisor for a facility housing 15 kids who affected by child abuse and neglect. Inside the gates of Short Term 12, fights and restraints happen every day and Denim knows how to respond. But as his personal life makes him to realize that he is no better off than the kids he’s trying to help.
“2 Birds” takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. It is a delicate study in yearning, love and the compassion that binds us all together and makes us human, even when facing the most difficult of choices.
A summer in the life of a mother and her two children. “Précis of the Everyday” is a tender look at the memory, passing time, imagination and poetry that make every day a unique experience. In her desire to “record every moment”, the mother is humbled by how much escapes her.
Without any prejudices, the director treads dangerous ground and it leads to the audience reaction shock. What’s going on behind the glasses of a contemporary home? The film is itself a question on the things we find and what they really are. Our could be
In a city that can be anywhere or nowhere, in a time that can be anytime, teenagers of a same school, but apparently with no connection between them, start to disappear without a trace. We are reminded of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant”, but not only. The musi
In 1975, Thomas Harlan’s crew filmed the Torre Bela’s homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, “Linha Vermelha” revisits this emblematic film of the Portuguese revolutionary period: in which way did Harlan interfered in the
Temporary residents of a house to be demolished, these artists – we can name them like this – spend their days in lunatic plots and farces. It’s Tiago Mata Machado’s second feature, an inspiring intelligent film, that achieves in connecting several arts –
Expectations are challenged in this short experimental film which plays with illusions and reality.
A group of friends share a cinematic experience in a particular region of Spain, Galicia. The goal is simple: to film what they like, without preconceived ideas about what should be filmed. They want their images to reflect the feelings that unite them with the people they find along the way.
“Letter to a Child” combines intimate conversations with perfect strangers and personal letters contemplating bits and pieces of life, collected and addressed to a child. In a series of “guided monologues” people – from kindergarten children to the vintage ages – are contemplating and reliving their lives. When they forget about the camera and they turn their eyes inside, the film starts. They are alone with themselves in front of us and then we are alone with ourselves, with our life, long passed, very present. Through the film the intimate diaries are silently drawing in the back a picture of human life of the last hundred years.
An old woman and a new reality. Accompanied by her female dog Roza, one day this woman finds out that her building’s access is blocked. The reason are the future games of Commonwealth. In a just and surgical note, Stina Wirfelt tells us about life and ab
It’s a film about the upstream movement, about belonging. Jenny doesn’t see herself in the other’s kids games, but her attention is drawn by Adam. Through an interesting game of light and darkness, we assist to the oscillations of the power relations betw
Loretta is poor 15 years old girl who introduces us to the macabre stories of her village. Anyway, she says, all the sons of God are going to die. In this Nick Cave’s music version, the voice’s tone evolution, the music and the animated visual elements wi
We’re first amazed by the technique behind the film, the Phonovideo, based upon the ancient optical toys, and allied to two record-players. And then we’re amazed by the record method of one single take. In the third place, we are amazed by the final resul