Short film by Juan Fernando Oliva that was censored after its production and its exhibition was prohibited by presidential decree in Argentina. The film addresses the problem of housing based on a documentary record of the lives of the tenement's inhabitants. It is the story of a young couple looking for a home to face the present and build their future.
Short film by Juan Fernando Oliva that was censored after its production and its exhibition was prohibited by presidential decree in Argentina. The film addresses the problem of housing based on a documentary record of the lives of the tenement's inhabitants. It is the story of a young couple looking for a home to face the present and build their future.
The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.
At a downtown Madrid building, an ordinary meeting of neighbors commune to vote on a change of elevator. However, the event escalates into a full-blown conflict after the unexpected announcement that a new, mentally ill tenant will rent an apartment.
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
A mob's punishment of a lone man proves cruel and unusual.
In this Oscar-winning short film, grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.