Lyon, 1943. A car driven by an SS soldier is transporting French prisoners to the prison of Montluc. One of them, Fontaine, to whom they forgot to put in handcuffs, jumps from the running car. He will be soon captured again, beaten, put in chains and locked in jail. Fontaine's charges are heavy ones. For four months, in the loneliness of his prison, he prepares a plan to es...
Shot in the head by a bullet during a police operation, Hoffmann, a young biologist, has lost his memory. He doesn't know who he is. He has to learn again to see, to listen, to feel, to walk, to speak. What really happened that night? Despite his sickness - or actually thanks to it - Hoffmann manages to break the vicious cycle of phantasy and speculation. Pretending to have ...
A couple of lovers lives together an entire century of life while objects, trends, movies at the movie theatre and architects follow one another in a slow but inexorable decline towards the horror. Their obsession with the octagonal knobs of the coffeemakers and with the anonymous design objects will accompany them along the passing by of the decades. Aging and gradual...
Jòsef, the main character, visits the sanatorium where his parents, he himself as a child, the emperor Francesco Giuseppe and other characters lived. The allegoric entrance to the building is the entrance to the world of fantasy, a dreamlike and labyrinthic dimension. In this strange sanatorium, time has stopped, or better, time has gone backwards. Here, Jòsef can explore th...
Silvano lives in Sottomarina, in the province of Venice. He is 40 years old, has a young, nice wife, a beautiful child and a comfortable house. For a living, he is a car thief. One late summer day, an old friend of his, Mario, who is back to the village after many years...
The vicissitudes of the main character, Witek, are told in three different ways, according to how his destiny could have been: three different lives, three different attitudes towards reality and history, three different politics choices and moral consequences: political activist, militant, "peacefull man" dealing with scientific research and not politics. The provocatory en...
According to a Swedish legend, the last person to die each year has to collect the souls of everyboby who dies the following year with the carriage of death. David Holm is an alcoholic carpenter who mistreats his wife and dreams to be in charge of this carriage. In this daydream, he faces his soul who helps him to redeem his life and save his wife from suicide. The film is n...
Three granddaughters with the same mechanical voice write a letter to their "dear grandpa". Maybe they are twins, surely they resemble each other like sisters. They confess their miserable and paralyzed lives to the octogenarian despot, asking him the reason for his resentment for Goethe and the reason for his unmentioned and unmentionable love for Stravinsky. The appearance...
Rosie Morris is a committed, yet unsuccessful writer, with more problems than pubblications. Her agent, desperate, tries to launch a diet guide written by Rosie, changing the title to make it more appealing. Suddenly Rosie finds herself transformed into a guru of diets overwhelmed by fame, but she is unprepared. The film was nominated for the BAFTA award for the Best Short F...
A young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
