Two teenage sisters from the Mennonite religious become stranded in an unfamiliar place seeking food and a place to stay overnight. As they discover the new world through a modern landscape with colorful characters, the secret behind their journey is revealed.
The Japanese 18-year old boy Kiyoshi has isolated himself in the kitchen. His family seems to have accepted his sequestered life. It has been two years. On the internet he has contact with youngsters like him. Kiyoshi’s sister is the only one who still has contact with him.
Somewhere in Iceland there is a lonely farm where old Hrafn and his wife live. When she dies, Hrafn stops at nothing to hold on to his independence and his dignity.
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A black comedy about a carpenter who uses his skills to repair what he believes to be his wife’s inadequacies.
Untitled Sequence V I. I it”s the product crossed between the organic and the inorganic. On a experimental perspective Untitled Sequence V I.I is constructed in an evolution context, passing through different states in a continuous process of contamination.
A poignant documentary that explores a woman’s unique take on her overweight and aging body.
Haifa, 1979. On Wednesday night, Vivian’s seven bro-thers gather in order to persuade her not to divorce her husband, Eliyahoo. Eliyahoo would have liked to preserve the customs of the old traditional world of Morocco, from where they came. However, unhappy Vivian, wife and mother of four children, would have liked to live a new life in modern Israel. Hairdresser for friends and neighbours in her apartment building, and has cold, confrontational conversations with Elyahoo. Vivian and Eliyahu are estranged. Twenty years of mar-riage and raising four children together cannot alter that. A claustrophobic portrait of a loveless marriage held together in a vice of religious and social convention which takes place in Israel of the late 70’s.
Heather wakes up feeling hungry, whilst her mum has the shakes. On a quest for something to eat and money to feed her mother’s drug habit, matters get out of hand, and Heather ends up paying a price she never expected. Heather loves her mum, but does her mum really know what love is?
Francisco, behave! I know it’s your birthday, you are thirty now, it’s carnival, you’ve dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that’s no reason to be so annoying‚Ķ Francisco, repeat after me: Up to your 30’s you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve.
The Books of Hours are medieval illuminated manuscripts. Each book has a collection of texts, prayers and salms appropriated for certain schedules. As Horas do Douro is inspired in this medieval idea of inventory and annual registry and it shows the cycle of the wine and the vineyard and how it determines the life of the people of this region. What we want to show, by the recognition of the landscape changes throughout the different seasons of the year, is that this vineyard is a work of men, that the wine it’s a human thing and that’s the way it must be shown.
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100 miles north of the Artic circle, people are fishing on the lake Torneträsk in temperatures of minus 25º Celsius. They sit in their arks – small, moveable cabins, no larger than 4 square meters, filled with mod cons.
Two synchronised swimmers perfom a series of choreographic movements below and above water. A film about weightlessness, an experimental piece of work that exemplifies film’s illusionist nature.
It has been ten years since Abu Shukri and his family, have settled in a valley, in the middle of nowhere, far away from their hometown. Completely independent, they live on charcoal they produce. Only the father and the son are in contact with the outside world. The father goes to the village to sell the charcoal whereas the sun runs off to the village school. The mother and her two daughters incessantly burn wood. Abu Shukri, the father, brought them to this place against their will and they know that the reason why they left the village is also the reason why they can never return. The father decides to build a pipeline to bring fresh water to their rustic home. The women are suspicious and the son doesn’t care but the running water awakens their instinct of freedom and marks the beginning of the family’s explosive tragic downfall.
A character living in the red-light district of a Spanish city goes back home at dawn, after work and, while removing the make-up and getting undressed, recalls all that hapenned during the night.
Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracket night. When it finally arrives, Eddie and her family head ti the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of her first cracker and experiences a pivotal moment.
Czech Dream is a funny and provocative look at the effects of rampant consumerism on a post-community society. Filip Remunda and Vít Klusák set out to explore the manipulative powers of advertising in all it’s perversity by creating an ad campaign for something that does not exist.
Barbara Albert tackles an ambitious subject: the chaos theory, applied to the daily life of her characters. The filmmaker uses Edward lorenz’ famous “butterfly effect” to set Bose Zellen in motion. A butterfly’s beating wings set off a tornado above the Gulf of Mexico that causes the crash of an airplane leaving for Europe. A single passenger survives: Manu, a young woman of 24. We see her again five years later, living in a small town in Austria, working in a local supermarket. The circle of people around her expands according to the people she meets, deliberately sought out or accidentally encountered. This fabric of interweaving lives creates a constant flux of “cause and effects”. Depending on the decisions taken by individuals, destinies change, intersect, become entangled, tending as often towards happiness as to misfortune.