Vienna as you have never seen it on screen, in a film which baffled and impressed this festival’s selectors in roughly equal measure. A food deliverer in the throes of a tough breakup is forced to reexamine his life . . . This synopsis but only hints at the disorienting wildness through which, by the simple magic of editing, a bare-bones story is electrified into something jarringly and excitingly unusual and capitalism is coruscatingly critiqued.
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Delivery Boy
Vienna as you have never seen it on screen, in a film which baffled and impressed this festival’s selectors in roughly equal measure. A food deliverer in the throes of a tough breakup is forced to reexamine his life . . . This synopsis but only hints at the disorienting wildness through which, by the simple magic of editing, a bare-bones story is electrified into something jarringly and excitingly unusual and capitalism is coruscatingly critiqued.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.