Olivier de Sagazan disfigures his face into various creatures, human and nonhuman, to explore the strangeness of life and the body.
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Olivier de Sagazan disfigures his face into various creatures, human and nonhuman, to explore the strangeness of life and the body.
Raixa estate, June 24, 1939. Sergi Forteza, son of the landowner, falls in love with Irina Dols, niece of the foreman, during the celebration of the summer solstice party.
In the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter Fletcher, relives an idyllic - and possibly apocryphal - past before slipping into a much more terrifying world. A sinister little girl wanders the corridors, cutting open her doll "to see what's inside" while winos and junkies prowl as flesh-eating zombies...
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid find themselves trapped in the wicked fairytale of a mysterious screenplay that entangles them in a vicious circle of revenge – apparently all written by a clueless dentist.
Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.
Step into the shoes of Jack, grasp the magic beans in your hand, and feel the thrill of an adventure into the realm of the giants, all in a world completely re-imagined from the classic 5000-year-old fairytale.
It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.
A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.
Three robbers pilfer from the countryside until they are charmed by a young orphan girl.
The miller's three sons receive their father's inheritance: the mill to the eldest, the donkey to the second, and the cat to the youngest. The two brothers refuse to share with the youngest, so the cat transforms himself and grows large. Wearing boots, he leaves on a foray and catches some rabbits, which he offers to the King on behalf of his master, "the Marquis of Carabas." Then he asks his young master to pretend to drown. The King and his entourage, alerted, rescued the boy. Later, when the King passes by, the cat asks the farmers to declare that they are in the service of the Marquis of Carabas. At the ogre's castle, the clever cat tricks the ogre into transforming into a mouse, which the cat catches and eats. Thus, the ogre's castle becomes the property of the young man, who eventually marries the King's daughter.
In 19th century New England, the lives of a diverse group of people collide through interweaving stories of despair, identity, faith, hope and trust.
An elder lighthouse keeper takes care of what has been his home for years. Old and secluded from society, he's disturbed by mysterious bottled letters. These and an unexpected malfunction make him doubt his job, his life and his existence.
After 1000 years of being God, Jonathan finally wants to get rid of the arduous job and not only has to answer to the tough goddess of the universe for his term in office, but also has to find a successor: the chaotic comic artist Niklas is supposed to be the lucky one. He just ran into pizza delivery driver Tess - and there was a spark between the two.
Ada is an eight-year-old girl living in a climate of ongoing tension between her parents. One evening, after a particularly heated argument, she witnesses her parents turn into Monsters. Ada will do everything she can to escape them.
During the First World War, a 14-year-old boy is under fire from bombs in the Besançon region. Wounded, he wakes up in the cellar of his "savior," a mad scientist who performs abominable transplants. Soon, the young man discovers a protrusion emerging from his navel... A hand!
Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.
Stan is an ageing sheep farmer who's at odds with life and out of hope. During a meteor storm a mysterious female alien arrives on his farm, she appears to be lost. As they attempt to understand each other a bond is formed and Stan teaches Voyager about what it is to be human. Their fate and Stan's is sealed when the StarGirl confesses her real reason for visiting Earth.
One year after the unresolved murder of his wife, Shinji receives a mysterious message putting him on the right track to find the assassin. He follows his revenge instinct and disappears into the darkness of Tokyo, where he meets Tomoko, a young woman on the lam. During that night, they come across yakuza and lost souls, and their lives change drastically.
A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.
Months after the disappearance of his father, Leonard, 11 years old, discovers a living entity in the compost at the back of the garden. He secretly forms a bond with this thing, which is soon discovered by his little sister. Both start to believe it’s their father. When their mother protests against this idea, Léonard begins to have doubts about her.
During a ride on the merry-go-round, a little girl will experience her life on a trip along the water.
Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.
A man is stuck on an island and time feels like it's stopped, until he finds a girl who grows fond of him, and time feels fast again.
The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.
A witch curses a town's well.
In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the black background of the wonderful garden there appear myriad flowers, in the center of each of which is a smiling feminine head. Tableaux showing pretty girl and flower effects are plentiful and the film winds up with a burst of multi-colored flame, which shoots in fiery splendor from leaves and petals.
When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince intends to get Amina back by giving her a love potion. But his plan backfires and Amina becomes deathly ill. Karim must make it through 7 doors to retrieve the only thing that can save his love-a mystical blue rose. A timeless, enchanting story!
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht.
A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair. After a nightmarish episode, the woman awakens only to promptly doze off again. Now a fairy appears who shows the woman a beautiful dreamland.
Loie Fuller, in her 1920 feature-length film Le Lys de la vie, […] explored the new technique for poetic ends, creating fleeting, dreamlike images that "freed" the medium from "illusionism" and imbued it with fantasy.
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad in tights. A barrel is then introduced and the girl enters one end.
1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.
Jonas, a troubled practitioner of magic, assembles a group of companions – including rogue Dagon, elf Nimue and assassin Solomon – to investigate a mysterious corruption spreading through a quiet village in the mystical Realm of Eldervin. As they journey through haunted woodlands and forgotten ruins, the group discovers the darkness may be connected to their own pasts.
Moving comes with major challenges. While the father has gone half mad trying to rearrange furniture from the Caracas villa into a Paris flat, Josefina is dealing with other troubles. A tragic sex call confirms her breakup with her girlfriend, and parental love has shrunk to ensuring the proper French pronunciation. The only thing that can cap off the deadpan humor and bittersweet bizarre scenes is the croaking of hundreds of frogs.
Two Hikers discover a doorway to another world.
A family takes a journey across the globe on a strange and amazing flying machine, experiencing a series of adventures along the way.
Back in the age of kings and queens, there lived a sweet little princess called Cornebidouille, who didn’t like eating soup…. One birthday, she received an invitation from a mysterious aunt, Cracrabidouille the witch. She set off to meet her, but Cracrabidouille had a hideous surprise in store for her: she fed her soup cursed with a wicked spell that turned Cornebidouille into a vile witch, terrorizing everyone around her. One day, she discovered that children across the world were reluctant to eat their soup. She decided to punish them tirelessly, prowling the Earth for centuries thereafter, before arriving in the present day, in a small town where Peter lives: a strong-minded little boy who doesn’t want to eat his soup either…
RED RIDING HOOD and BLUE BEARD are opposed in a dark fairy tale of lights. "Curiosity, in spite of its appeal, often leads to deep regret....it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all"Charles Perrault.
An epic six-hour adaptation of Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Most famously filmed by Wojciech Has, this four part adaptation has the advantage of a vastly expanded running time, allowing for more of the novel to be incorporated >> shot on film, it was clearly a very expensive production and is equally spectacular in its own way.
An adolescent on a remote place narrates his story marked by a past in the Sahara being a camel, Pringles fries, the desire for fat women’s bodies, strange drawings, colonizers and reggaeton.
Robinson is shipwrecked off the coast of the extreme south of Spain. After a tremendous struggle in the stormy waters, he manages to reach the safety of the shore and save his life. He is an anonymous exile in a foreign land, just like so many other thousand of black Africans. Robinson manages to find some work in one of the many large greenhouses that grow fruit and vegetables along the coast of Almeria, but his condition as an illegal immigrant is precarious and he decides to move further inland. Robinson's mind is troubled with interior voices, spirits that control and confound him. In order to free himself from them, he must fulfill a mission: to kill a man.
A short film about self-love and self-discovery.
Running away from trouble, a gay teen boy slips and suffers an almost fatal accident. He goes to limbo, a magical and mysterious place where he will meet a suicide lawyer and a crazy nurse, two characters that will change his life forever.
The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time.
Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen.
An astronaut lands on the moon with a simple goal: to capture an alien. But things don't go as planned...
“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their instruments. The directress stands them in a row, and taking the head off each, throws it onto a huge music staff and each becomes a note of the scale. The whole bodies appear again, after which the manipulator seems to wrap them up in a large sheet of music, which is then shown to contain nothing. The paper is rolled up again, and a cane is held, perpendicularly, in a horizontal position to the sheet.
Alicia and Leo travel to Italy, to their late mother's childhood village, guided only by a small box filled with her memories.
Mary is a 12-year-old girl with a passion for cooking, absorbing information from her grandmother, who is a wonderful cook. However, Mary and her family must come to terms with her grandmother's illness.
Witness the rise and fall of The Warehouse, a rave venue from Plymouth and times gone by now reduced to a derelict shell. We explore its history, its people and the future. An amateur filmmaker-explorer finds the building in an empty derelict state, long after the prosperous life and energy it endured through the 90s. Through a combination of archives and stories of people who lived there, the film explores through the medium of analogue what once was and how even a now silent derelict shell can become the centre of the universe.
A couple of ghosts spend their leisure hours playing in the fields, enjoying nature and the eternal words that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote over a century ago to a young poet. The film was shot with a photo camera.
A man is confronted by parallel versions of himself as he contemplates his life choices.