George works a lot and forgot his past, all his wifes. For his work he goes in a town he seems to know.
Secção: Competição Internacional | International Competition
Viola lives quietly with her daughter Angéla in a small flat in Budapest. Viola is still a beautiful woman. Angéla is ashamed of her mother. Communication between them has become almost impossible. They are together only to watch their favorite television series; they never miss an episode. Probably, in secret, they both are in love with the protagonist. Viola works where no one else wants to – as a toilet supervisor in the metro. She is looking for a real man whom she could love. Angéla would like to design nice dresses. She desires something different. Another life. Fresh air.
Jaime Ícaro works on a weekly tv magazine. At the end of another dull working day he recieves a fax from Teresa, his girlfriend, breaking up from their one year relation. Jaime leaves the office reading the fax, and only a few minutes latter realises that Lisbon is not having a normal rush hour‚Ķ
On his parents’ farm, Martin, aged 11, watches helplessly as his family falls apart. His mother, cut off from the world around her, lives locked away in her room. The older brother he worships drowns his sorrows in alcohol, and his father, under the grandmother’s thumb, is a powerless spectator of his family’s decline. Martin gets ready to put an end to the chaos around him…
Júlio is in Prague for his video exhibition and to meet Kitty, who is not able to arrive on time. Kitty is the soundtrack while Júlio is a mute character. Their dismissing makes this an unsynchronized movie. Those characters lead us, separately but simultaneous, by the sound and image of Prague. Only their meeting can bring back the synchronism.
Smadar and Mirit, both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together, as part of their military service. They are assigned to detain any Palestinian passersby, check their papers, and register their details in special forms. However, the two young girls are immersed in the tidbits of their own lives ‚ their romantic crushes, their breakups, and the multifaceted relationship evolving between the two of them. Until one day, Jerusalem’s political reality is forced upon them.
Very early in the morning, Marian, a 7 years old boy from a small and poor Romanian village, wakes up his father and persuades him to go to the city, in order to fix their old TV set.
The Lauberhorn ski race, the world’s longest downhill ski race, has been postponed until summer. The newscaster is live on the scene to accompany the viewers as they travel at breakneck speed to set a new record…
The best friends Sayuru e Kiyumi, are Japanese girls enjoying the sweet pleasures of winter.
Three young people about to depart on different suicide operations. We encounter each one as they pause to have their portrait taken before setting off on their mission: a Japanese pilot on a military base during World War II; a young Lebanese woman recording a propaganda video during the Lebanon civil war; a young Palestinian man from a refugee camp in the Occupied Territories.
Portrait of an ordinary woman who, at the moment of her death, discovers that she didn’t know how to live.
At the end of winter in the South of Chile, an old couple awaits the visit of her daughter and grandson. It rains sometimes, and then the sun comes up. During the day they work. He clears a stream and she makes cheeses to sell in the nearby highway. At night they sit by the fire and hear the rain beginning to fall again.
Love Conquers All tells a love story between a girl from a small town with a guy with unknown background. The girl, Ah Ping, left her hometown. She meets John and they soon fall in love. John slowly reveals that he actually worked for a gangster. The story takes a turn when John tells Ah Ping how a pimp worked to lure a girl into prostitution. We soon realize that John is a pimp, but helplessly seeing Ah Ping being lured into it, even when she knows about his tricks.
A lonely child plays with his small ball against a huge wall. The rhythm that he produces takes him away from his loneliness. Suddenly, a deaf rhythm emerges in constant displacement and perturbs the child. The child searches and experiments to understand from where come these echoes…
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 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
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.
Rabbit Stories is a study of mental illness; a portrait of a young schizophrenic man called Fenton Fuller. “