A short documentary on peasant life in Poland after the war.
Peasants talk about their friendship with the “paulistas”, militants of the Brazilian Communist Party that leaded the Araguaia Guerrilla during the military dictatorship, and reveal the atrocities committed by the army in the region between 1972 and 1974.
The turn-of-the-century story, based on a newspaper serial, concerns a young boy who is forced into labor by his drunkard father. He later resorts to theft to support himself before finally being rescued by a sensitive teacher.
A convent fantasy, the kind common among veterans of Catholic girls schools is acted out in a series of stylized vignettes. The repressed returns, leading to forbidden thoughts, restless nights, meaningful glances, confessions, ardent embraces and worse.
Ning decides to escape her daily routine as a housewife and takes a job in a furniture shop. On her first day of work, with Mur, a driver, she embarks on a journey on a snaky mountain road to deliver a sofa to a client in a remote village.
Consisting of three separate stories, the director explores “Man” as a theme: birth, life and death, to present a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic portrait of life at the bottom of the socio-economic pile.
Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de’ Fiori, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him despite the fact they argue all day long… But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa…
The lives of a rookie cop, a streetwise orphan and a beautiful young ex-teacher collide explosively in the drug underworld of Mumbai in this edgy, powerhouse thriller that exemplifies the verve and excitement of India’s new independent cinema.
The story centres on an elderly German industrialist who is accused by a newspaper of being in charge of a Nazi execution squad in a Greek village during the war.
A slightly sinister game punishes co-workers for distracted behavior on their daily commutes. As the quarters and loonies pile up, office morale soars. This dark satire hilariously exaggerates stereo types that are familiar to any jaywalker or law-abiding cyclist.
If the Sagrata Familia, its vertical spirals leaping heavenward, is Gaudi’s sacred masterpiece, his La Perdera (a Barcelona apartment house), luxuriating in leisurely horizontal undulations, must be its profane partner.
Based on the international hit song, Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife) is the story of the coolest, street smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City.
A story about Pedro who has a dreams in this fantasy-drama film by Nick Deocampo.
This film features a very unique look at Frank Zappa and his work, including footage in and around Frank’s studio environment and his synclavier work
Raymond (Bernard Blancan) is a very lonely peasant who lives so detached from the world that the peasants of the village nearby his family house consider him as dead for more than 30 years.
A disaffected Goth girl and a young male Internet voyeur connect in this offbeat exploration of the Japanese subculture of video surveillance.
A short silent film made for £100. During the making of this film Russell converted to Catholicism.