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Even after burial Orphea wants to embrace her beloved Eurydike, deceased from food poisoning on January 22nd. She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eurydike no longer needs any love?
Moonchild is a long lost gem in the canon of esoteric cinema. The title references a 1923 novel by Aleister Crowley, and Genesis originally stated of the film, 'Moonchild is a spell, to create a new person or a new stage in people, through compassion and through thought, and it's a construct, just like a spell is.'" “Moonchild is a spell, to create a new person or a new stage in people, through compassion and through thought” The film stars Genesis’s wife at the time, Paula P-Orridge, and is dedicated to their first-born child, Caresse. It also features John Gosling of Zos Kia and Psychic TV. "Moonchild was originally broadcast in 1984 on Spanish television show La Edad De Oro, alongside interviews with Genesis P-Orridge, filmmaker Derek Jarman, and musician and conceptual artist Jordi Valls, and performances by Psychic TV and Vagina Dentata Organ, which caused a forced shutdown of the network by the government at gunpoint.
Sinus searches for his missing twin; Möbius. Befriending Hiccup, a cool-headed vagabond, the pair set off on the quest, eventually stumbling into ‘The Garden’. Amongst the topiary, they meet a band of whimsical characters; Queenie, Rebel, and the Fool - who join the search for his twin. At the door of an ancient forest, Sinus loses his newfound friends, and descends into a frenzied trip towards the depths of his psyche. Blind wizards, clouds of bees, and giddy demons - all manner of evils await him in the shadows. In this darkness, will he ever find the elusive Möbius?
The story of Jessica, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a strange world, a place that could be our world in the near future, perhaps, or in an alternate dimension. The point being that, whatever the nature of her world may be, Jessica's problems are the very same as they are in our world. Above all, the fear of a scary future haunts Jessica and seems to worry everybody around her as well, with the only escape appearing to be "like the other people". But Jessica's different: she has a dream and she has talent, yet her world rejects those who try to change the world and better their lives. All the isolation and bullying will have an unexpected impact on the situation, until a very shocking turning point of the story. All the way up to a shocking denouement.
“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.
In a dreamlike Buenos Aires, Gay crusing is assimilated to vampire culture.
The Devil of Winterborne has only recently been exorcised by PROBE. But when the body of its last victim disappears, and a book of black magic spells is stolen from a local museum, Liz Shaw begins to wonder if the ghosts of the past have really been laid to rest. Forced into an unholy alliance with the school’s disgraced headmaster, Liz must fight not only her own warring emotions, but a festering evil that threatens to corrupt the Earth again after 100 years. But how do you fight a shadow from Hell?
Danny La Rue plays Cinderella's wicked stepmother in this grand tradition of a Christmas pantomime.
Imagine a land without trees: erosion, desolation, desert... Imagine... Technocrats of "development" and pseudo-farmers, do you happen to have a little imagination ?
A woman watches as barren landscape is reborn, perhaps by her doing.
Lured to a beautiful but remote farmhouse by a deceitful relative, a family decides to move in. Little do they know it’s in the middle of a dying kingdom of fairies and the only way for them to rejuvenate their life force is by sacrificing their young daughter. As she is baited to the fairies’ lair, her mother must fight to return her to safety and bring an end to the evil fairy queen’s reign.
Jordy, a 12 years old dreamer, has locked himself into the imaginary universe of his favorite movie, “Stand by me”. His elder brother Chris never leaves his bedroom. One day, Jordy adventurously uses vouchers he’s been given to explore the haunt of the local adolescents, “Fun Panini”, convinced it will bring him closer to his brother. The magical sauce he discovers there will transform his world...
Histoires courtes, the France 2 program, gives carte blanche to Bertrand Mandico who brings together three of his short films here: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in Skull Valley, Nous les barbares and The Last Cartoon.
Albertine is the most controversial character of Recherche du temps perdu, the most mentioned yet the one we know the least about: we do not know where she comes from, what she does for a living, where she ends up… and even when she dies, we wonder if she ever existed at all. Several critics saw in Albertine Proust’s driver Alfred Agostinelli, a young Italian with whom Proust had been madly in love. The novel and Proust’s life become the excuse for a contemporary love story – where Marcel, Albertine and Alfred hide, bluff, swap genders and roles, experiencing love as an eternal question, aware that the heart of things cannot be captured, but only glimpsed at.
Brendan gets involved in a 'Fathers Only' treasure hunt for the sake of his 7 year old niece Sophie. But what Brendan begins to realise is that the parents imagination may have got the better of them and it might not be so easy bringing home Sophie's Fortune.
‘Who Named the Lily?’ celebrates and laments the complicated history of the Crystal Palace. Monster Chetwynd plays the ‘Fact Hungry Witch’, who explores the story of the Amazonian waterlily, and reveals its links to engineering. The artwork brings to light the politics of Paxton’s developments in industry and architecture, however, the protagonist of this story is the waterlily – a catalyst for ground-breaking technological advancement.
A few scenes from a lesser-known Grimm’s fairytale, transposed to the West Cumbrian landscape, quickly jettisoning half the story. A woman’s work and (mis)adventures; low-key folk magic and/ as squatting tactics; traces of process, misrecognition, ocean vistas, fells.
In the enchanting streets of Barcelona, a despondent movie director crosses paths with a gritty low-life gangster. Their fateful encounter sparks the birth of extraordinary alter egos, drawn straight from the depths of their dreams. Together, they embark on a mesmerizing journey that will push the boundaries of their lives to a point of no return.
Jaumet is about lo live his most unforgettable adventure. Traveling by car, he arrives in a village whose inhabitants are quite outlandishly, as if they were plunged in a rare carnival behavior.
During the holidays at his grandparent's village, John meets Mary, a mysterious girl who tells the terrifying legend surrounding the peasant's old house. John, unlike the character in the tale, is fearful. Mary is not.
When a raiding party from the city of Atlantis kidnaps a man and his two daughters for slavery, he contrives to bring about the destruction of the ruling class utilizing the powers of the mysterious crystal child.
Craig gets more than he bargained for when he searches for a strange noise in his new apartment.
In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean army is devastating.
In the quest to prove herself the greatest warrior of all time, Agatha must make some unlikely alliances, but can they be trusted...
Max and Chrige, a married couple of Swiss linguists, hike the Alps searching for rare words still uttered by the rural population. While on his way to a conference, the husband's plane disappears over the sea. Chrige is advised to give up hope of ever seeing him alive, but her heart tells her otherwise. Max comes ashore on a tropical island with another survivor, the plane's pilot. But where are they in reality?
Gregorio has a uniform life. He works in a factory and lives alone. One day a cockroach appears in his pantry and he sees the possibility of changing his life.
We all have desires that we leave aside or that we do not listen.
In a steampunk world, the rivalry between the two towns Halloween Ville and Day of the Dead Town broke relations hundreds of years ago. Now, the rift can only be resolved by the most unlikely and innocent of its residents, Pumpkid, a boy from Halloween Ville, and Bony Lu, a girl from Day of the Dead Town. Together, with a group of friends, they go on an incredible journey to reunite their feuding towns and people.
A young woman inherits the house of Jean Michel but she is haunted by strange dreams and numbers. She has no idea that this is the beginning of the 'the night of clocks', which opened for those who have sinned, the dead which are not dead...
One Christmas, a knight garbed all in green appears in King Arthur's Court and challenges any knight to hew off his head on the proviso that he be allowed to return the axe stroke afterwards. All of King Arthur's other knights being frightened, Sir Gawain takes up the challenge and hacks off the green knight's head. The green knight then gives Gawain a year to find his home and live a little before the cut is returned.
Ever wondered why you keep attracting the wrong type? A weekend in London leads to a revelation for a couple who have dated each other more times than one of them realises - but what will they do now the secret is out?
Claymation animation of an old fairy tale.
An impatient kid at a Pedestrian Crossing causes chaos when he hits the 'WAIT' button one two many times. A cautionary tale about impatience? Or a high octane chase featuring thrills, spills and 'Tom and Jerry' inspired mayhem? It's a Highway Code Throw-Down in RVG!
Jules has an extraordinary premonition gift : every night, at 3:33, he dreams about what will happen the next day. As a consequence, every single day and despite the daily constraints, he saves lives. Until...
Based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.
Sophie and Millie come across a mysterious device that shows them encounters of the past with some disastrous consequences to follow when they begin to believe they can control it...
A man attempts to regain the life he used to lead after being mysteriously forgotten by everyone he’d ever met.
After rescuing a young boy named Leo from a brutal gang, the noble outlaw Za la Mort discovers the child is the heir to a massive fortune. He and his loyal partner Za la Vie must protect Leo from the Grey Rats, a ruthless criminal syndicate led by the villainous Grigione who are desperate to steal the inheritance. The chase leads them through the Parisian underworld and across the globe to secure Leo's safety and the secret of his past.
Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.
Adaptation of Noël Coward's ghost story.
XVIII century. Winter is upon a tiny and remote mountain community. Young Elk, son of the village chief, suffers from an apparently incurable illness. As the adults leave the village looking for a remedy, Elk and a few other kids remain alone. Only then, a sinister entity emerges from their people’s legends and begins to torment them. A menace only Elk is prepared to face.
The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.
When the crew of a bankrupt cargo ship gets stuck on board for months, isolation breeds pressures that sink the men into a sea of madness and terror.
A mighty hero battles the son of Satan and his evil witch ally to save a kingdom from being taken over by the duo.
Year 1703: the tyrannical madness of King Louis XIV of France has taken hold. The Musketeers hatch a plan to eliminate him and free his twin brother Philip, who is imprisoned on the island of Saint-Marguerite, but before they can act, he is executed. The Musketeers subsequently manage to recover Philip's body and, together with some loyalists to the monarchy, capture Louis. Louis XIV, in chains, is now victim of a ritual of blood and power.
Somewhere, in the middle of fields, lives a scarecrow named Gustave. He is hardly a simple inert figure! Don't be fooled! Gustave is very much alive! He even dreams of changing his life. Who knows? His destiny is in the hands of human gods!
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face of Medea of Carpi, noble woman processed to witchcraft. Shortly after the arrival of Jack, a country girl is killed in a mysterious way, dropping the suspicions of the Commissioner Gianzi on the young restorer, who is soon advised to not complete the work on the opera, because it would hide an ancient curse.
The Freak Family follows Diego, an aspiring pop-punk singer who makes a risky pact with the Devil to achieve fame. This deal throws him into a chaotic world where his dysfunctional family must contend with the bizarre, darkly funny consequences of his ambition. Balancing supernatural hijinks with heartfelt family moments, The Freak Family is a dramedy about dreams, deals, and the people who keep us grounded—even when things get freaky.