Timothy Higgins, picked last for the team, is the saddest boy in the world. Friendlessness, suburban complacency and prescription drugs have conspired against the youngster to make this his worst year yet. Musical Chairs and birthday cake can’t save him now‚Äîat his ninth birthday party, Timothy prepares for a show-stopping suicide.
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus in his post-Beatles years and particularly on the time in his life, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist. Recounts the facts about Nixon’s campaign to deport him in 1972.
A film that balances the precision of a Swiss watch with the messiness of a restless mind, Wide Wake is filmmaker Alan Berliner’s uniquely personal tour through his life-long obsession with insomnia. In the spirit of his highly acclaimed experimental documentary films, Intimate Stranger, Nobody’s Business and The Sweetest Sound, Berliner once again uses his own life as a laboratory ‚ this time to confront both the anguish of his sleeplessness, and the blessing of extra time that it affords his creative life.
Based on Un Incompris by Henry de Montherlant. Bruno and his friend Pierre are waiting for Rosette in his Parisian bachelor flat. She is late again. But this time Bruno’s mind is made up: if Rosette is more than three quarters of an hour late, it will be over between them for good.
The film is directed towards the study of the transforming Chinese landscape of the Three Gorges Area disrupted by the implementation of the world’s biggest hydraulic dam. It focuses on Yangtze river bank cities, from those in ruin or disappeared to the booming ones and tries to determine the multiple consequences on landscape and population in the prospect of the water rise.
Three sisters feeling the stagnation of their lives. Their helpless husbands and the children, frightened by their parents’ arguing. And then the farewell letter from the father, in which he writes that he will take his own life. It is the calm that captivates the spectator. The calm of the camera, the editing, the way the director watches…
This is the story of Rui’s summer. Rui is a 13 year old boy who unlike all the other kids of his age doesn’t like football and fighting. He prefers to take refuge in a dream like world surrounded by dinosaurs and other animals from the forest. The film focuses on daily life in a poor housing estate in Porto and, in particular, on a group of children aged between 8 and 14. It follows their life outdoors always inventing new games. Parents are seldom home and children have space and freedom to create their own rules, games of power many times copying the models they know from home. This is a special summer: people are expecting the European Football Cup and the possible victory of the Portuguese team will raise the morale of a country in full recession. Kids and adults are hypersensitive, feelings go over the top. TVS are put outdoors and the games of the European cup are followed by children and adults as an almost religious ritual. The film focuses on daily life in a poor housing estate in Porto and, in particular, on a group of children aged between 8 and 14. It follows their life outdoors always inventing new games. Parents are seldom home and children have space and freedom to create their own rules, games of power many times copying the models they know from home.
Seven stories about children in situations of risk, reflecting on the difficulties of the condition of childhood, in divers regions of the world. The result is in seven short films, set in Brazil, Italy, in England, Serbia, Burkina, China, and in the U.S. Developed especially to call attention to the problems of childhood all over the world.
Blue Willow is an animated fable.Taking you into the heart of the traditional chinese procelin plate, this short brings the blue lines to life and weaves a haunting story of love and family betrayal.
A young man and his friends make room for a father’s needs.
Set in rural New Zealand a depressed mother makes the difficult decision to leave her son and partner. The film explores the relationship a nine year-old boy has with his mother and the ultimate loss of his trust.
A Sensual and graphic dance under a burka. The burka begins to have a live of its own, as it metamorphoses into a variety of shapes, and plays with our fear and mistery of Islam.
Sniffing grams of cocaine, Ana Laura, a 40 years old, pretty, smart television anchor, is now facing her long insanity night trying to break the system. She can´t live with the fact that she has lost her status and is about to loose her job to a younger women at work. But everything can change when sun rises up, something great waits for her,disarranging all happenings.
Marine, an obese young girl, suffers from the way other people look at her and from the heat of summer. She dreams of a better life among the penguins on an ice floe…
A woman’s act of desperation in becoming the perfect beautiful figure she always dreamed of. A satirical story of the modern society view and demands of perfection and beauty.
Through letters sent by Glauber Rocha to his friend and collaborator Jirges Ristum in Rome, in the 70’s decade, we discover a little about Glauber’s ideas regarding his relationship with Italy and the cinema, and also a lot about the Brazilian political and cultural conditions in those years. A director’s tribute to Glauber and his father ‚ Jirges – both passed away in the early 80’s.
An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient and a strange picture on the wall…
Get Rid is an animation film on the transformation of a ball: it gets different shapes according to the player it is passed to.