Un giovane regista esordiente, ventiquattro anni, e un film realizzato con appena trentamila dollari. La storia è semplicissima: ci sono due amici, commessi in due negozi adiacenti. Uno vende videocassette e quando si annoia chiude il negozio e va a trovare l'amico. L'altro vende un po' di tutto, in una sorta di mini market. Durante la giornata entrano ed ...
Simba è un cucciolo di leone, figlio di re Mufasa e principe ereditario della Savana. Curioso e avido di vita, contravviene agli ammonimenti del padre e si lascia convincere dall'infido zio Scar a visitare il misterioso 'cimitero degli elefanti', dove viene aggredito da tre iene fameliche. Soccorso dal padre, Simba promette di non disobbedire più e ...
Sky, plants. Some children play pretending to shoot the planes landing. A pilot calls home: no answer. Miguel is taking a bath: the day after tomorrow it is his 7th birthday. Miguel has never met his father. The pilot lives in the next-door apartment and he argues often with his wife. Miguel receives some birthday presents, amongst which a kite. His father is released for go...
In a typical Latin-American cabaret of a poor quartier of Panama, singers, comedians, conjurers and acrobats perform for a public composed by longshoremen, unemployed, workers and poor people. They are "those of the Barrio", the ones living in the quartier where everybody lives like in any other working-class district, dancing, dreaming, loving and working to the b...
Autumn 1943. A kid follows his mom on the mountains where a group of partigians is hiding.
Han has worked as a watch person at the Opera of Beijing. Now he is retired and spends his days feeling bored and useless. One day, in the park he meets a group of retired men who share with him the passion for theatre. So Han decides to found a club where they can meet to act or sing. Once the club is open, problems start: everybody wants to act in his own way. Han finds hi...
A night in the life of Isaac, a jewish Russian man who survived the nazi holocaust, and Sophie, a catholic Polish woman. They are both refugees. Since thirty years they live in a garret in London, where Isaac has created a sort of maze of doors on which he has engraved and painted the symbols of their past. In this space, trapped in the history and yet in a time-free dimens...
The movie is based on Georg Büchner's drama and is set in the contemporary Hungary. The disturbed main character, Woyzeck is a railroad guardian and lives in the shack by the railway. Maria, a restless woman, surrenders to the call of senses during a dropout party. Every element of the landscape seems immersed in a time free dimension and it is suspended in the existential s...
New York, seconda metà dell'Ottocento. Newland Archer, che appartiene alla migliore borghesia, si fidanza con May Welland ma è attratto, ricambiato, da Ellen, una cugina di lei che torna dall'Europa dove è fallito il suo matrimonio. May riesce ad anticipare le nozze e a far ripartire Ellen, ormai "compromessa" da ingiustificate maldicen...
