A political mockumentary that, with cheeky humour, never talks about politics. It is impossible to dislike Rose, who is occupying a recently abandoned house. The previous owner’s belongings are still there and the new “tenant” says she’s only taking care of the house, for which she feels an affinity.
During the Franco regime, the village of Escó was abandoned by all but the Guallars — a father and three sons. The latter still inhabit the mountain, in an isolation that is threatened again. Meanwhile, they take care of their animals and dream of cozy meals.
Two twin sisters take a trip and make considerations about their proximity, how it affects the way they identify and on their own individuality.
A documentary seen through the eyes of the filmmaker as a child, Pegah tells us about Gholam, an important family friend whose absence still marks her life. The charm of nostalgia is transformed with the confrontation with a reality that deals with the Iranian revolution.
A mother goes shopping and the weight of the bags hurts her. She asks her son for aid and he comes to help her carry the groceries home. As they travel the distance, they also deal with the issues that haunt them.
A father and two sons live in a remote house with a goat named Rosie. The kids learn to shoot, to mend fences. Until a neighbor from the village arrives and convinces the father to participate in a hunt for a witch, who has been killing the animals. The kids are left alone, with their imagination.
A tender film set in a South Korea represented as dominated by consumption and capitalism, but where the character Jung-hee is able to maintain a relatively strong self-esteem. Her unattached situation (she is not at university, nor does she have a steady job) leads her to want to visit Kim Min-Young, a former high school classmate, and resume their relationship.
A documentary about the director and Kimi, a soul mate with whom she spends a decade filming the anguish and ecstasy of a generation repressed by an autocratic regime. There is room to portray the first love, the first heartbreak, and everything in between. Images of drug use, overdose, suicide that can be considered sensitive.
Takumi left Toyama, on the coast of Japan, some time ago. He returns after the death of his father, who never wanted him to leave. He now visits the places and relationships he left behind, with the melancholy of someone who looks differently at what was once familiar.
Who are we? What space is there, for each person, within that word? The RER B train runs through Paris into its suburbs. This is the line where Alice Diop draws isolated portraits that make up a whole. A film-essay that questions a French nation haunted by divisions and fractures whose healing seems complicated. But there is space for gestures that unite human beings, regardless of what separates them.
In this ethereal and modern version of a free love film from the 1960s, we find a moody biologist and his graduate assistants trying to develop a summer project in the wild nature of the Appalachian forest. There, they encounter three mysterious figures who will change their lives.
Queralt, the mother, and Gemma, the daughter, paint in their respective spaces. One in Barcelona, the other in Athens, the distance between them is more than just geographical. Queralt’s calls are the conduit through the 20 minutes of quotidian moments.
Jason and Kevin are two friends with a relationship in dire straits. Jason wants to go parrot hunting in order to sell the birds and buy a bicycle. Kevin wants him to shut up. The search for the birds ends up triggering a confrontation, where tenderness and violence mix.
A documentary that explores all facets of the flower as a concept, reflecting on its beauty, its history and its commodification. From experiments to achieve a specific color to an auction, the semiotic world of the flower is encompassed in the chapters of this visual essay.
Sam works in a kennel in Ostend, where canine therapist Koen teaches owners how to take care of their four-legged friends. Sam and Eva, the owner of a restless dog, get close as a friendship, and perhaps a new safe haven for both, develops.
A common family nucleus, but with a lunar aspect: a domineering father, a distant mother, a teenage daughter unsure of her boyfriend, and the smallest one, perhaps in an identity limbo. Each of them overflowing with their own frustrations and desires.
Faruk has the responsibility of delivering parcels as his first job in Germany. Today, his eight-year-old daughter, Kati, hides in his van to spend the day, and time, with him. But a moment of cloaked racism tests their relationship.
At first nothing seems to load Anna with worries or weights during a short trip, in the company of her dog. But the environment begins to change when entering the supermarket. While viewing the shelves, the displays, she does mental calculations. Until the call.