In Romenia, the two main characters want to escape from the country, like many others during the Ceausescu’s era. The plot is simple but it’s directed towards one objective: the permanent tension. Spaces, light and sounds change just like an initiation co
Hardly knowing each other, two young man search for shelter in the mansion of one of them. There’s a concealed tension which approach and depart them, in gestures demonstrating power. Filomarino films Garrel and Scamarcio following them with a camera in a
A train enters a soap factory. Inside it hidden some travellers, immigrants. One of them gets of the train. In the factory she finds relief, help, solidarity.
A Black woman, a dog and a young teenager are reunited in the living room of a house. Bit by bit, we discover the character’s relationships. A subtle and intelligent mise-en-scêne replete of looks and little details. (M.C.)
She is the Philippine waitress looking for the Prince Charming; he’s the Portuguese immigrant who uses rabbit’s ears because of his job. In this enchanted soap opera, the characters find each other by pure serendipity, and they stumble in dancers and curt
The theme of borders is central to “Morgen” and Marian Crisan emphasizes that the borders are not only geographical but also ‘personal’. In a Romanian town on the borders of Hungary, a middle-aged security guard, Nelu, lives quietly with his wife. One day
Fred belongs to the community of gypsies living in vans. To earn his life he steals BMW’s that his brother Jo after resell. When a dog mysteriously appears and turns into Fred’s symbolic encounter with faith his life suddenly changes. The way the film d
Diane Wellington’s town is recreated through footage and ancient photographs, and written by its inhabitants voices. They tell the stories of her disappearance and show her captive of her unsolvable past. The only revenge is a bird flying loudly to the sk
Marie is growing up but she mixes up growing and illness. Her mother doesn’t see the girl’s struggle, but only her age. Image and sound emerge us under water, in a deafness that individualizes colors and sounds as if we are listening to them for the first
Come and meet the Mexican Irma Gonzalez. Whoever watches her leaving her home wouldn’t say that she’s the former world professional wrestling champion. In the rings, as in her life, she’s a fighter. A portrait built like a Russian matrioska. Surprise afte
The misadventure of an old woman obsessed with birds and her son, who thinks that can fly.
“Prince of Broadway” is the story of Lucky, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, and Levon, an Armenian-Lebanese immigrant, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York’s wholesale fashion district. Lucky’s world is suddenly turned upside down when a child is thrust into his life by a woman who insists the toddler is his son. While Lucky copes with his new domestic dilemma, Levon struggles to save a marriage that is falling apart. The seedy side of the wholesale district is revealed through a journey that continually confronts the interplay between what is fake and what is real.
Children play in a gymnasium as if it were a prescribed exercise. We are disturbed by the mechanical security surrounding them, but amused with the guard’s choreography to restore the order, every day at the same time. What if we could see our everyday l
Guided by a kid’s regard we discover the universe of his sister, a bodybuilder. The violence of the exterior world and fascination mingle creating moments of suspension in time. (M.C.)
A police officer carries out a search of a man’s apartment and enters the life of someone forgotten by everyone.
A short documentary in which the viewer finds himself in a dark place. A place where the noise of the night becomes music and reality and unconsciousness is indefinable. Suddenly the viewer wakes up and needs to face reality.
In the summer camp of Putin’s youth movement 10.000 young Russians are trained to make Russia the global leader of the 21st century.
Sylvain’s mother asks him to write a letter to guarantee custody of his sister while his friend Arthur learns that his girlfriend Lolita has spent the night with another one of their friends, Damien. The three meet. Sylvain’s father threatens him not to write the letter. Lolita arrives to wreak emotional havoc.