Constantinopla, 1910. The Turkish government decides to erradicate thousands of abandoned dogs that wonder through the city. The solution is to send them to an isolated island, and to their own luck. Animating as if he was painting a tableau, Avédikian
This film portrays a very ordinary family in modern Japan. Set in contemporary Tokyo, the story probes the dark side of human nature and the social problems that confront contemporary Japan. Kurosawa’s portrayal of the breakdown and redemption of Japan’s “ordinary family” is every bit as gripping as his previous works.
A man and a woman in one room, …the sounds that arrive from outside, …the gestures, the words, the things shared, …the moods of the woman and the man, …are the nomadic edge of the nature of that relation.
A portrait of Mike Tyson’s turbulent life – both in and out of the boxing ring. Mixing archive footage with a serious of revealing interviews with Tyson, the film traces the boxer’s career from his days as a teenage drug dealer in Brooklyn to undisputed champion, and his dramatic fall from grace to incarceration for rape.
A farmer and his mother discuss the arrival of a strange animal amongst their herd of Limousin cattle.
A film poem prologue, the beginning of a metaphysical journey musing on a series of brief, but enigmatic images taken from around the world. These images follow one after the other, but geographically span thousands of miles and large passages of time between each cut. The soundtrack is by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
My friends from Beirut telling me, openly and with details, about their most secret sexual experiences, the most ardent, and the most obsessional.
Fragments of spaces and times, remains of eras and places only inhabited by memories and ghosts. Traces of things changed by time, the elements, nature and human action itself. With time, everything ceases being and possibly transforms into everything else. Places that stopped making sense, stopped being necessary and fashionable. Forgotten places, obsolete, uninhabitable, empty.
When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets Paco, an ordinary man, something wonderful and magical happens: they fall in love. But then, their love for each other produces an unusual baby, Ricky.
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.
“Of Time and the City” is both a love song and a eulogy to Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as the skyline changes and time takes it toll.
This life is lost in dust / Day by day the blossoms fall / Year by year the people go / Cold Mountain trail never ends / Even now you do not know? / The reality is asking the shadow the way.
Set during the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July 2006. We see the effects for the local population. The sirens, military patrols, blocked streets, low-flying helicopters and armed escorts. City under siege. Even the largest cemetery in the city turned into a strategically sensitive location at the time.
Two friends, Marc and Nicolas, are a bit lost in their lives… Malika, a stranger and a drop out, struggles for her life…
Maybe it’s the beginning of a love story between Marc and Malika… Maybe it’s something completely different…
One of the most influential and powerful love stories of classic literature receives one of the finest cinema adaptations. Faithful to its origins Arnold handles the romantic plot line with great violence through passionate characters and lyrical images. Obsessed with cinema, she emphasises on the importance of image and the power of silence, positioning romanticism to its origins, on absolute originality of artistic inspiration. An experience based on strong emotions involving horror, terror, violence, sex, blood and spit. Fascinated with the character of Heathcliff, she chose her lead actor to be black stating his difference is of massive importance. She approaches Heathcliff’s childhood and the brutality surrounding this childhood in order to reveal his dark side as an adult. In the age of cynicism and sarcasm Arnold dares to adapt a doomed love story, dares to be romantic, dares to be emotional, dares to instinctively love. (Nina Veligradi)
A factory somewhere in French Picardy. One morning, the female workers discover that everything has been removed during the night and that the management, accomplices of the swift outsourcing operation, have done a bunk. Shocked but realistic, they decide to pool their absurdly low compensation money in order to finance a redeployment project. They consider several options until Louise, the most radical of them all, proposes, no more no less, that they hire a professional hitman to kill the boss!
“In far away Paraguay, there was a young man … who in his heart had an empty meadow.” This is the theme for a musical film in animation, where the director plays exemplary with screens, guns and money, between narrative and abstraction. Chagall, Picasso and Kandinsky hang around in a synthesis that seemed impossible, a film adapted from a book by P. Cachapa. (Miguel Valverde)
A tragic-comic animaton by the pair Jonze-Cahn. In a Parisian bookstore, book characters from the universe of fantasy come to life, using 3.000 pieces of felt cut by hand by designer Olympia Le-Tan. The music and overflowing imagination give them an unexpected life. (Miguel Valverde)