AD 2015. The world’s major cities are decimated by a terrible plague, a highly contagious virus that fills those it infects first with unbearable dread, then with overwhelming despair. A fatal disease, without cure. The Lemming Syndrome. In an isolated country mansion, two musicians ‚ Mizui and Asuhara – live in seclusion, devoting themselves to the creation of pure sound far from the trappings of fame and success they knew in the corrupt and dangerous city. They are visited by an ageing plutocrat, his desperately sick daughter and a detective, who believes that in the music made by Mizui and Asuhara lies the seed of hope that the old man’s daughter can be saved. In the vast, changeless stillness of nature, the musicians begin to play…
The world is turning and changing. So do I.
They thought life would have been simple. All obligations and problems involved in material life would find a natural solution. Each morning, it would be nice to seat at the kitchen table. After a shower and before getting dressed, they would have breakfast. On the table there would be butter, pots of candy and toasts. It would be early. It would be the beginning of a long day of work.
A cyclical fairy tale in which a man and a woman are cursed to be forever apart, except when they are transformed into animals. But when they are, their passions are overshadowed by their hunting instincts.
Lucia and Daniel have three children: the eldest is Ezequiel, who now lives in Spain; the middle child is son Jeremias; and the youngest is the rather sullen daughter Meme. Lucia is obsessed with shaping and presenting her small clan as a model family of Argentina’s chattering class. But so consumed is she with this project that she fails to see what is unfolding beneath her very nose. When Ezequiel returns to Argentina just prior to his wedding, he begins to suspect that the natural order of his family is out of kilter. Then one night he is confronted with the terrible truth of family relations.
The time has come, as it does every two years, for the senior members of Hong Kong’s oldest Triad, The Wo Shing Society, to elect a new chairman. Fierce rivalries emerge between the two eligible candidates. Lok, respected by the Uncles is the favourite to win. But his rival Big D will stop at nothing to change this, including going against hundreds of years of Triad tradition and influencing the vote with money and violence. When Wo Shing’s ancient symbol of leadership, the Dragon’s Head Baton, goes missing, a ruthless struggle for power erupts and the race to retrieve the Baton threatens to tear Wo Shing in two. Can Wo Shing balance their traditional brotherhood ways with the cut-throat modern world of 21st century business?
A home-made Super-8 musical. On the eve of his 30th birthday, a supermarket plebeian attempts to forge a profound connection with a flighty belle. From the midst of melancholy burst those brief, deceptive moments when everything feels like it is going to be fine.
Borges meets Murnau in a spinning nightmare. And the baby sings: No, not be scared, old bird, to awake and see I am dreaming you.
An animated remake of the 1933 film classic. In this version King Kong destroys New York using the Guggenheim art museum as a weapon. When he is finally killed King Kong triggers a cataclysmic earthquake that destroys the world of assholes as we know it.
A diptych about two characters who have many and one story to tell. At the start of World War II, Maria Merla was taken fromPoland and made a slave in a soviet work camp in Siberia. She was not alone. There were hundreds of thousands of other Poles. Merla’s struggle for survival influenced and set her son, Lech Kowalski, apart from everyone else. New York. The 70’s. Kowalski imerses in the american underground, protest becomes his culture and, as an independant cineast, he observes fellow others living on the edge of society. Thirty years later, Kowalski invites his mother to recall her past, a history that is also his own. An enquiry to our roots and identity. Who are we and why are we like this?
Louis Trebor, a robust and mysterious loner, lives alone in an isolated woodland compound on the French-Swiss border in the Jura mountains. An enigmatic figure and emotionally distant father, he has little contact with his grown up son, Sidney, who lives near Geneva with his wife, a Swiss border guard, and young family — seemingly preferring the company of his dogs. Trebor’s emotional contact is seemingly limited to an affair with a local pharmacist and a wordless attraction to a beautiful and equally aloof dog breeder. An ailing heart forces Trebor to leave his snow-covered wilderness to visit a bank vault in Geneva in order to withdraw enough cash for a new heart on the black market. Shadowed by a mysterious, unnamed Russian woman, Trebor recovers from a clandestine transplant operation, and travels to the bustling markets and shipyards of Pusan in Korea. Here he agrees to buy a boat and starts on a voyage south, slowly threading his way back to his former home on a remote island near Tahiti, where he searches for the lost son he fathered years before. He is uncertain of the welcome he will receive after all these years.
This film is based on the story of Akosse Legba, a thirty two year old Togolese woman. She has been victim of modern slavery, in France. Through her memory we discover the path of someone who always considered herself as a lonely woman…
A young lady is waiting for her beloved for their first french kiss, when suddenly everything turns upside down.
A young couple find themselves in great financial difficulties. The man finds a job in a boutique where the owner seems very strange.
How do you live when you know you are going to die? How do you feel, what choices do you make? Romain, a young photographer of thirty, lives with his boyfriend Sasha in a gorgeous apartment and a fast-growing career reputation. One day, during a photo-shoot Romain feels unwell and passes out. He fears that he might suffer from AIDS, but the diagnosis is even worse: Romain has cancer and he learns he has only a few months left to live. Romain keeps his prognosis a secret. But, in the little time he has left, he makes his choices: in a family dinner, he tells some cruel and awful truths, for the surprise of his parents. At home, he puts and end to his relationship with Sasha. Finally, he decides and sets off to meet his grandmother, Laura, to whom he confesses his heavy burden. And, as the days fold into nights, and the nights into days, Romain says his goodbyes.
Five practical lessons of self-defense for the citizen on the go– or nation-state on the rampage!
The film provides an associative, lyrical depiction of the poem Frühlingslied by J.C. van Schagen, focussing on a little boy’s memories of his mother and bringing together present, past and future.
Brest, on a saturday afternoon. Céline and katia are seeking adventure. They find it in the toilets of a bar. Among the graffiti on the walls, Céline notices the words All women have the right to love, followed by a phone number.
