In the 1950s, when Herzog was 13 years old, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an egomaniacal artist. From the chaos a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre. Four more films would follow. Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they first met — and thrashed, and the various locations of their films.
Few minutes away of an important game of the New York Knicks, two friends carry a couch in the street’s of New York, one of them has been kicked out of his apartment by his wife. Now these two fanatic fans have to find a place so they can see the game seated in their lucky couch.
Igor Leschenko was in the headlines in the late 1920s. The debacle at the pataphysicist convention leads to a secret expedition to the point of zero gravity. Rare film documentation of a hazardous journey… Will he ever find the Nanopol island? Terra Incognita is an homage to Raymond Roussel.
Why do people strive to clone other people, if another sister can’t substitute a dead sister, even if they are twins that look absolutely alike? Why does a woman have to lie about working in advertising when in reality she is selling her body? Why does a man tell servant-rumors about the president’s family and lie about working in the president’s administration, although he is really a businessman? Where is the border between life and death, and how high is man allowed to raise the curtain to look over to the other side? Is not science, in fact a form of contemporary magic? A deserted village out in the middle of Russia and an all-night bar in a big city. Episodes of life in Moscow and in the country. Because of their absurdity, these episodes are as much realistic as they are unimaginable. However, a closer examination reveals that these two worlds – are but clones of each other, only they duplicate reverse reflections, like positive and negative film.
Jim Peck feels his social order unpended when a homeless man requests a dollar from him. If a homeless guy has a gun, but isn’t robbing you, should you give him a dollar out of gratitude, or get angry because you feel manipulated? A meeting between two unhappy men.
Two neighbours live opposite each other on a country road somewhere in Northern France. They hate each other and life for them is nothing but a daily painful confrontation. One day, in the course of a violent dispute, an agricultural trailer knocks them over and sends them to hospital. They are both released, in wheelchairs, paralysed from the waist down. Giving up on the idea of suicide, they each decide to embark on a personal journey. However, before they know it, they both end up on the same railway platform, waiting for the same train. Neighbours once again, for better or for worse. An odd and unpredictable odyssey then starts, taking them all the way to Finland where they intend to obtain financial compensation from the manufacturers of the agricultural machinery responsible for their accident. In this film, the disabled protagonists are simply normal, at times a bit stupid, a bit nasty, often funny. These two wheelchair-bound travellers will somehow live an initiatory journey, in search of one’s neighbour.
The look of Mariana covers the patio of high walls. Joana is back there. The expectation of a friendship. Everything to learn. Everything is very fast. The drawing of Joana. Tumbling of a bottle of red ink. The image of Mariana in the mirror. The guilt confuses her: who made to overthrow the bottle? Was it her?
A little girl is born with wings instead of arms and with a beak where a mouth should be. But unlike a bird though, she cannot fly because she is, …
A girl who wounded a ear visits a ear cleaning shop. She is seduced by the pleasure of having her inner ear cleaned. However, little by little, the pleasure makes her stronger. It is a love story.
Boy is an unsual story of a young male prostitute in a New Zealand village who struggles to expose the truth behind a fatal accident. The family of a responsible driver tries to keep the secret but the boy finally exposes the truth.
On a piece of lawn, between two buildings, a girl – Chyenne – seems to get lost in the letargic gray and cloudy afternoon. Suddenly she sneaks up to a raven and starts a game. Soon the bird joins her and actually the game becomes a quite odd duel. Who will be the winner?
A series of human-like matches burn. Each head lites the next on a disturbing and stetic chain reaction. Through fire, they gain new life.
She passes, he follows her. He loses her. The memories of other exits, of other meetings come to his memory. He finds her again. The persecution continues. She meets with another one. She hugs him. He returns, head down. She follows him… She also had a Shadow in the Soul.
Bursting with idealism, Melanie Proschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city. Desperate to fullfil her hopes, Melanie intends to do everything the right way. Politely she introduces herself to her neighbours with a homemade schnaps. At her first day of school she gives a very ambitious speech for her colleagues. She wants to be a fresh breeze to the school. But her old established colleagues are just annoyed by Melanies new teaching methods. Her weaknesses are quickly uncovered. A boy throws a chocolate drink at her. It is not easy to start a new life. Loneliness appears as nobody has been waiting for her in the new town. But Melanie is not discouraged and gets in touch with her neighbour Tina. As Tina was recently left from her boyfriend, any distraction seemes to be good for her. But as Tina is the only person Melanie got to know she misses no opportunity to ring at Tinas bell with a homemade cake or to offer any kind of help. As her efforts become more and more urging, Tina begins to withdraw herself. Melanie starts to cross borderlines and entangles herself in a spiral of lies, fake hopes and self-abasement.
Santiago Roman, a rugged, 23-year-old soldier of the Peruvian Navy, returns home to Lima after years of fighting in the jungle. Combat-weary and searching for hope, Santiago is a member of a lost Peruvian generation ‚ his spirit scarred by futile wars with Ecuador and constant fighting against terrorists and drug traffickers. He quickly finds his native Lima an unwelcoming place ‚ his army buddies have taken to bankrobbing; the decadent club scene offers only noise and lights; prospective employers won’t hire him; his applications for credit are refused. But worst of all, Santiago learns that his friends, family, and young, professional wife have be-come decadent or distant ‚Äî and that they are, each in unique ways, unable to understand him. What escape for a discharged soldier, who returns home full of hope, but finds only disappointment and inner turmoil?
Léone is a forlorn disabled ypung woman who survives in the shadow. In the shadow of her handicap, of her leg and foot deformed by polio. In the shadow of “normal people” and her bonsais. She uses her small house to lookout the outside world, especially to spy on every move her neighbour Andréas.
Everything Was Life is an experimental documentary which utilises animation mixed with live action to explore the alarming practise of female genital mutilation.
Hanging a painting on the wall, buiding a house of cards, doing the laundry and watching TV: the most innocent and harmless actions in the daily lives of four ordinary people. But of all the bad luck, these people had to live next to each other.