Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art and a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. “
Secção: Observatório
Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends. Featuring animation by Bob Sabiston (Waking Life), and a rare dramatic performance by legendary French porn star Rebecca Lord, I Am a Sex Addict is Zahedi’s unique brand of comedy at its confessional best.
What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman ‚ Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, the film brings us back to the late 1970’s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had. Comprised of news footage, commercials and Bryant’s own home movies.
Martine and Arnaud are two French citizens. He is 28-years-old, he is married with two children ‚ 2-year-old twins. He is an engineer. She is 66-years-old. A retired sociologist. She is partially handicapped. They have never met. We interviewed them with the desire to make an animated documentary on themes as wide as citizenship, politics and political commitment.
A boat did disappear ten years ago, but since no trace was ever found of a ship-wreck or bodies, the three members of one family keep hoping that the missing man will return. Every night, as a sign, the Mother lights a candle in the window.
Set in 1984, Kuantan, at a time where thousands of Vietnamese refugees came to our east coast shore. A film about Chinese diasporas. How centuries of wars and famines had made eating a ritual.
In an inverted world, where art oscillates between a political decoration and a conversation between illuminated people, someone in the antipodes of art attempts to undo the mirage and, before ghosts, in the centre of the world, thinks of the noise that could save him.
This film shows over a period of six years the story of a young woman who came to Singapore to work as a house keeper leaving her husband and one-year baby in her country. It describes her daily hardships and difficulties through her own eyes…
A vibrant split-screen musical finale to The Patterns Trilogy. Pauline, having washed her hands all night, suffers from the driest of hands. Michael, having sent her paper airplane love letters all night, has a bad case of paper cuts. With damaged hands and anguished hearts, Pauline and Michael reveal through song the nature of their enigmatic relationship.
Who is that strange boy sitting quietly in the corner of a bus full of screaming fans going to the football match? In fact, this shy boy is a girl in disguise. She is not alone, women also love football in Iran. Before the game begins, she is arrested at the check point and put into a holding pen just by the stadium with a band of other women all dressed up as men. They will be handed over to the vice squad after the match. They must endure every cheer, every shout of a game they cannot see. Yet, these young girls just won’t give up. They use every trick in the book to see the match. A smart comedy illustrating the fight for women’s rights in Iran.
Old Joy is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Will Oldham) and Mark (Daniel London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. As the hours progress and the landscape evolves, the twin seekers move through a range of subtle emotions, enacting a pilgrimage of mutual confusion, sudden insight, and spiritual battle.
When his sister dies, 32-year old August returns home and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as the famous porn-star The Princess is dead after years of drug abuse. She leaves behind her 5-year old daughter Mia, whom August feels obliged to take care of. Weighed down by grief and guilt he decides to revenge the death of Christina – and takes Mia on a mission to destroy all existing pornographic material featuring her mother. The mission escalates into a violent route where he desperately tries to protect the only precious thing in his life, Mia. In the end he makes a fatal decision that costs him dearly.
A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the swamp-flower, protégée of a Socratic Director (and his goat Plato). In a world without women, she is kept safe from the temptations of the flesh by her strict and grotesque Aunt. The sound-track entirely played by the workers (fado and bossa nova singers) reveals parallel narratives of suspicion and conspiracy that unfold to the pace of the unconscious leading to a confrontation between Man and River. Inspired by a hypnotic story by Branquinho da Fonseca (1905-1974).
Lost at sea. Bill and Doug pass time as they wait without out hope for the mother ship to find them.
A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape.
Days before his 21st birthday, William, a young actor, meets and falls quickly and madly in love with Sara, a seductive yet skittish singer/songwriter. The film follows William as his affair takes him from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room and through the emotional extremities of passion, rage, and need. Yearning for someone to love who loves him back, William’s journey forces him to come to terms with his own past. The Hottest State is based on the book of the same name written by Ethan Hawke.
The lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus, a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. In a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, the story is told with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
A young boy experiences difficulties interacting with some grumpy girls.