This is the story of a housewife who wished to fly faraway but didn’t, perhaps, as she puts it, because she was born before time. She goes through the daily routine with the memories and songs from another time, that fills the soundtrack of her world.
Mogwai went to Italy to play a festival in august 2008. Mogwai didnt expect to have Adelia, the organizer’s grandmother, as a fan in the audience.
Winter in La Cienaga. After choir rehearsals, the girls get together in the parish church to discuss faith and vocation. Amalia and Josefina are sixteen. In between the discussions, they whisper secretly about kissing. Josefina is from a conservative provincial family. Not far from Josefina’s house is the Hotel Termas owned by Amalia’s family, where she lives with her mother, Helena, a divorcée, and the rest of her family. A chance encounter between Amalia and Dr Jano, who is attending a medical conference at the hotel, allows the young girl to at last find her vocation – to save a man from sin. Dr Jano will be caught up in a web of good intentions. The respected provincial doctor’s world is on the brink of collapse.
An ogre has a wife. She makes his meals but is a vegetarian; he would like to repudiate her in order to marry a Milady, whom he holds prisoner in a chapel…
Paris, today. A corrupt Businessman, Edgard returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals: his tormented son Simon, a young 2nd lonely composer, Benjamin, and Louise. In the process, four lives will interwine in an uncanny fashion.
One Sunday morning Jacob, a middle age man, treis to tell his wife about a dream he had during the night. The city had it’s usual French charm, but the only thing he could think about was that the Eiffel Tower was nowhere to be found.
Leroy, a 16 year old African-German, is too German to be black. His life gets complicated when he meets the skinheaded brothers of his girlfriend Eva.
In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the las inhabitants who haunt the deserted village. They seem to be waiting apathetically for their end and resemble the old boat abandoned on the shore. Il Dono is the story of those who have left, told by those who have stayed; a tale of disaster and exodus.
Paavo is forced to sell handkerchiefs on the street to get money for his bitter and tired father. At home Paavo escapes is harsh reality by drawing pictures of happier times and thoughts. One day three old ladies with runny noses give Paavo crayons instead of money for his handkerchiefs… and Dad gets mad.
Experimental portrait of the city as an experimental in itself: Images are too intense and noises are something brutal.
Ruthie and Or, a mother and her 17-year-old daughter, live in a small Tel Aviv flat. Ruthie has enn a prostitute for the last twenty years. Or has tried many times to have her quit working the street, but whitout success. The daily routine of the 17-year-old Or is an endless succession of petty jobs: washing dishes in a restaurant, cleaning staircases and collecting deposit bottles while attending high school whenever she can. Ruthie’s health is worsening. After an umpteenth visit to her mother at the hospital, Or decides that this time, things must change for food.
A man falls madly in love with his up floor neighbour. Moved by desire and jealousy, he is going to eliminate every obstacle that lies between them. Unfortunately things turn out as he less expected.
Stan works as a publicist in the commercial area of the town. One day, the sliding doors don’t open anymore in front of him…
The near future: Bruno is trying to win back is ex-wife. Under pressure from her domineering mother and new (arranged) boyfriend, Jorge, Isabel brings charges of harassment against Bruno. Bruno is tried and sentenced. A device designed to suffocate him if he goes within 100 meters of Isabel is implanted in his throat. But doesn’t deter Bruno, he practices holding his brath.
Can you keep a secret?… This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car. Mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.
Sansa’s incredible advendtures around the world. France, Spain, Hungary, Russia, India, Japan, Egypt, Portugal… Passing the boarders, edentity control. Sansa is free, he loves women. Love stories. The camera follows him, walks, observe the world.
A small girl is crying because there is a hole in her stomach. Suddenly a mysterious horse appears, the hole closes up and she is no longer sad. But then things begin to fall from the sky which distract, and fascinate her, the horse leaves. She grows up, but soon finds tha the hole has reopened.
Tlatelolco, México D.F. – Sunday, 11 0’clock in the morning. Flama and Moko are fourteen and childhood friends. To survive another boring Sunday, they have everything they need: the place to themselves, video games, porno magazines, coca cola and pizza delivery. Unfortunately, the electric company, their neighbor Rita, Ulises the pizza boy, eleven seconds, The Real Madrid – Manchester United football game, a chocolate cake and a horrible Duck painting are ruining what was shaping to be a great day. But the real problems are slowly revealed: divorcing parents, loneliness, the confusion of love and friendship between teenagers as well the adult’s frustation of life. Duck Season is a film that shows us that when the light disappears, the stars can be seen.