The film’s lonely protagonist Oliver works as an air traffic controller at Bratislava airport. He lives in the obscurity of a housing estate where he has a view onto his neighbours’ windows. For him the young family opposite represents an ideal of happiness he determines to become a part of.
Marquand and Maria are painters and lovers who live together. As Maria works on series of paintings, Marquand visits his friend Gregor, a horse breeder and philosopher, sleeps with the angelic Angie and visits his daughter Lucia several times. Marquand and Lucia, who have begun a tender affair.
A short stop-motion animation.
A young Portuguese boy and his adopted Angolan sister are departing from Lisbon for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The mother realizes they are having a secret love affair. The father is profiting from infrastructure development investments. A moral decision to make in the battlefield…
About the erotic and ecstatic visions of St. Teresa of Avila in which the sixteenth-century nun fantasises about making love to a crucified Christ.
A compilation of short documentaries on the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge of 21st century technology in this BBC documentary.
Karla Zachanassian (Bergman), a fabulously wealthy woman returns to the decaying village which she had been forced to leave years earlier in disgrace.
The door bell rings, but Erik doesn’t feel like receiving any guests. He hides in the closet when he hears his neighbour opening the front door.
A probing visit made by Nagisa Oshima to Ogawa Productions provides an endlessly fascinating context for this documentary about making documentaries.
Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, this film shows the people of Québec taking a look at American tourists who have come to Québec to take a look at them.
Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher’s will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn’t believe in U.F.O’s and aliens.
Someone gave Karl Valentin und Liesl Karlstadt tickets to see Goethe’s „Faust“ which is playing at the theater. Both of them go through lots of trouble getting themselves ready for the occasion. However, many things go wrong and time is running short.
Deborah Ballin is a controversial middle-aged TV journalist, who is campaigning on air on behalf of a battered woman who murdered her abusive husband, claiming justifiable defense against the so-called victim.
The storyline is about a son’s father (Lars Karlsteen) and mother (Maud Backeus) who come to visit him (Peter Egge) and his girlfriend (Kajsa Wilund) for the first time. The father continually criticizes the living condition his son is living in.
They meet in person many years after seeing each other for the first time in photos sent by regular mail. They have waited for this meeting for a long time, in which they were only allowed to write letters. They are convicts from men’s and women’s prisons.
Cibrâil, a young policeman of Turkish origin, lives happily with his girlfriend in Berlin. But what is causing the young policeman’s sleepless nights? One day his girlfriend’s cousin who lives in Rome, comes to stay and, bit by bit, Cibrâil ’s life is turned upside down.
Michael is avoiding phone calls regarding his dear friend and former lover Chris who is dying back in America. While trying to write, he is disturbed by the noisy surfers next door as they get ready for a weekend away of surf. C.K., one of the surfers, remains behind to surf the local beach.
The scientist Agne must take care of a foreign flat. Without her family knowing about it, she visits this flat regularly and begins a parallel life. One day she falls asleep there. When she wakes, a foreign man lies beside her in the bed.