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Anna, who is blind, dreams of becoming a pianist. Twice a week she plays in a bar for a small audience. Her work colleague Max is taken with her. When she embarks on a trip with him, feelings quickly arise that neither of them can hide. Anna is offered a place at Europe's best music academy, but Max can't come with her. Max unintentionally breaks up with Anna, but she realizes that Max is sacrificing himself for her.
In the fall of 2017, 40 years after her first major tour of Quebec, Angèle Dubeau will embark on her final concert tour in Quebec. For this tour, entitled "Pour une dernière fois" (One Last Time), Angèle Dubeau will be accompanied by her orchestra La Pietà and will perform a program composed of beloved works requested by the public, works that have marked her career.
Paul is here. Like a step backwards, like a ghost knocking at the door. He is here, and his annoying presence will disrupt Jeanne's everyday life.
A student couple on the verge of separation attend the birthday party of a mutual friend. While dancing, a new woman enters the couple's lives. Neither of them finds happiness that night. - A story about the insurmountability of the attraction of feelings and their unpredictability.
After the awakening of several feelings a young man will define his sentimental life through the relationship he shares with his girlfriend and his best friend.
The battle between two angelic warriors for the revelation seals that belong to unknown prophets.
Built from the ground up from a series of introspective shots throughout Marc Isaacs's significant body of non-fiction work, Moments of Silence captures people feeling overwhelmed by difficult thoughts, pause and fall silent, seemingly dwelling on their past, contemplating their current ordeals, or worrying about their future.
Two young women are about to receive the great honor of being sacrificed to their Mexica gods; but the cruel and bloody ritual does not go as expected.
In her small apartment on the outskirts of Paris, Chahine tinkers with the rhythms that will accompany her on stage. This is her space, the only one where she feels safe. She visits her surroundings on Google Street View. As a woman born in a man's body, she is reminded of her difference every day. And the difficulty of finding one's place in the world is coupled with another question: who owns the city?
SH!TS!CK are a band of punk sisters responding to today's corrupt governments and global turmoil. Quartina Blue, Tilly Squeaks and Jaime Renae use punk and the divine feminine to give fascism the finger. They are the antidote to the feelings of loss and displacement that pervade modern society. SH!TS!CK's search for home invites you to question the world around you and to connect to our shared humanity.
The first days of a true love affair between 2 boys in the city of Berlin... Two twenty-something boys have anonymous sex... The day after, they decide to date... They get to know each other, have fun, party and fall in love... Alex and Alexander have sex, then decide to date, explore the city and get to know each other... They party, they kite, they share their secrets... As they become more and more intimate, we wonder: are they falling in love? An urban, contemporary and unscripted real love story between two boys in the city of Berlin.
Inma Cuesta and Quim Gutiérrez are the fashionable actor couple. But in their day-to-day life they realise that they no longer kiss like they do in the movies. Their relationship goes into crisis and they start a fun plan to reconquer their relationship: champagne, lobster, music, fireworks... whatever it takes to reconnect in the perfect scene! Everything seems to be going well, but accidentally the magic moment doesn't end as expected.
David's and Jessy's love is put to the test when Jessy unintentionally gets pregnant. The thought of becoming a father causes David to panic. Later, when they are attacked in the train and David is unable to protect his girlfriend, David's fear of not being man enough is confirmed. In desperation, he starts to inject steroids. David develops aggressive traits and becomes a threat to his girlfriend and the unborn child.
Three stories inspired by stories by Juan José Saer. A police officer returns to his hometown to investigate a murder; a teacher complains about a horse that has been abandoned. One day, a man is found dead, and there is no trace of the horse, which is the only witness to the murder.
A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.
Focusing on the Matta-Viel complex, the immediate environment, the program, the materiality, the community of neighbors and its architects and what they represented in the modern Latin American architectural panorama.
Three trainers help acclimate mustangs to their new life in Europe as part of an effort to shed light on the plight of this mighty American horse.
Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.
On March 24, 1944, in the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 British, Canadian, Norwegian and French pilots who were held in Stalag Luft III, a prison camp of the Luftwaffe, escaped. Unique testimony from the last survivors, recreations and today’s digital images sheds new light on the audacious escape.
Ferdi thinks he's ugly – but likes the fact Jona is interested in him. Maybe because she's blind. What Ferdi doesn't suspect: She's just pretending to be blind to be able to live cheaply in subsidized housing. How long can she maintain her charade? Can love, which is supposed to make you blind, even work out that way? Director Tom Lass takes a closer look, shooting with blind actors and old Berlin buddies, acting the lead himself – paying tribute to a way of life beyond our way of seeing the world.
TV post-war drama about a gruesome chapter of the Nazi era. Nadja Uhl reveals "wild" euthanasia in psychiatry. Oldenburg, 1948: For Margaret Oelkers (Uhl) and her two little sons, the pension is not enough as a war-wittwe behind and in front. But the authorities are working hard, not even because of their lack of credentials on the employment of their killed in the war. After an energetic appearance at the office, she is briefly put into the psychiatry of the Wehnen nursing home as a trainee. The consequences are bitter: one attests to their schizophrenia, takes away the children and brings them to the sister in the country. For a year, Margarete was kept in the hospital against her will, and forced to do so with electric shocks. After her release, she was placed under the guardianship of her neighbor Erich Windhorst (Martin Wuttke), a man with an SS past...
The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.
Three women, one family: Monika the mother, Angie the older sister and Kiki the baby of the family. Angie is a reality-TV star who is doggedly clinging onto her fading career. Fresh out of rehab, she suddenly finds herself without any money, friends or a place to live and is condemned to returning to her mother in her hated dump of a hometown. Angie's teenage sister Kiki is also finding life tough-going. Due to her epilepsy, her mother Monika insists that she wears a freaky protective helmet. The consequence: Kiki is ostracised and bullied, her life has long since become the hell from which her mother is trying to protect her.
The residents of a Bangladeshi village anxiously wait for the heavy monsoon rains to clear. However, the rain continues and catastrophic flooding submerges their crops and houses.
Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.
Short film tackling depression and it‘s causes in teenagers and young adults.
Elizabeth inherits a cottage from her recently deceased grandmother, only to find it isn't the dream house her and her fiancé were expecting.
When a procession of Norman soldiers escort a group of prisoners through the depths of the forest, they are ambushed by a band of bloodthirsty thugs. The Normans routed and shown no mercy, a captive minstrel manages to trade his life for a song. Composed on the spot, he promises his attackers immortality through the ages. But sometimes legends are born by accident, and history can play a game of Chinese whispers with the truth.
Hubert and Helga are separated. Hubert has not yet told her about it in order to spare his heart-broken mother. On her 80th birthday he finally wants to tell the truth. The feast takes its course, until at the end all are exhausted, hurt, drunk and desperate and even do not know exactly what they really want. And then, at the right moment, Hubert takes the floor and - lies.
Jim and Loz Beck are brothers from Chipping Norton. They play rock'n'roll together since they're 8 years old. At 18, they leave the boring british countryside to live and work on their music in London. Jim starts working in a Cultural association while Loz discovers the pleasures of the student life. The film is driven by the raw punk music and the deeply political and emotional lyrics from their two piece band Cassels. In this intimate portrait, Jim and Loz will confront their strong artistic point of view and their DIY approach to the reality of the music industry and the social and economical London's life.
Through the testimonials of iconic French and international artists from years past and today, "French Waves" looks at the history of French electronic music through the eyes of the younger generation.
The young guitarist Rafaelito is supposed to perform at a funeral with two older boys. He’s a little worried because he only knows three tunes.
A man returns to Tijuana in the hope of finding a woman who has lost herself in drugs and darkness and has apparently become a "white lady", a ghostly creature half way between heaven and earth.
Varichina was the first openly out homosexual man in Bari in the ‘70s. Ugly, flashy and campy, he was well known for making coarse advances to every man he saw. He was gay, had nothing to hide, and lived a life of celebration! Funny and heartwarming, Varichina: The True Story of the Fake Life of Lorenzo de Santis is a documentary/fiction hybrid looking at someone who was WAY OUT, long before it was socially acceptable.
The 40 year mystery uncovered by his wife. This is the story of Lord Lucan, playboy, aristocrat, gambler and murderer. The public has been transfixed for over 40 years, when on November 7th, 1974 Lucan family nanny Sandra Rivett was killed and he disappeared without a trace. Ever since, one voice has remained almost entirely silent; his wife, Lady Lucan. Now she wants to set the record straight.
Documentary in which Darcey Bussell profiles Hollywood dancer Fred Astaire, marking 30 years since his death.
The story of a man trying to cope with the death of his sister, but cannot because he must continue working with the illegal business of bringing undocumented immigrants from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.
Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society.
An eclipse that never goes away. Penned by some of the Bristol's finest writers, "The Day That Broke" is an ensemble piece connecting 6 different stories that revolve around a solar eclipse. The various characters, on a number of timelines before, during, and after the event each respond differently to it - and indeed, those timelines become different worlds since the eclipse, mysteriously, never ends.
A young man helps an old lady to carry the laundry to her house. Once inside, the woman isn't willing to let him go.
In the 1960s, archaeologists working in China made an extraordinary discovery. They unsealed the twelve-hundred-year-old tomb of a princess. Its walls were covered in magnificent murals - an unprecedented glimpse into life during the Tang dynasty. This documentary tells the fascinating story of the great Empire that made those murals, of the Silk Road that connected it to the world, and of the rebellions and disasters that brought the dynasty crashing down.
A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.
If you ask him, "Can you do a comedy show about war?" Jeremy will say yes, because war is great! So he dug deep, dug deep, and dared to answer the questions you no longer dare to ask! Are we really protected by cops on rollerblades? Is Daesh really a start-up on the rise? Should companies that made their fortune thanks to the Nazi regime feel guilty? Can you be a humanitarian and have a teak terrace? He will also give you anti-terrorism training and explain why Al Qaeda without Bin Laden is like Apple without Steve Jobs.
