1972. Gilles and Christine are attractive, sexually active teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shop-lifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. As the party is winding down, Gilles and C...
Asao can't deal with relationships with women. One morning, after having dreamt about a beautiful woman having sex in an expensive car, he convinces himself that women love men who own a car. So he decides to buy one, but contrary to all his expectations, he keeps being refused and the car crashes against a truck. After several humiliating and unsuccessful tries, Asao meets ...
Xiaodou, a shy young man, starts working as a postman after a colleague gets fired and arrested because he was keeping some of the mails. Pushed by the will of straighten out the society's faults, he himself will also end up doing the same and will start maneuvering the events of some people's lives, whose private affairs are now known to him.
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...
Rome, 1736. Abramo Cajvani and Angeluccio della Riccia, both Jewish, are reported for breaking and entering. According to the law of that time, they are sentenced to death. Routinely, the night before the execution, the condemned ones are assisted by the Brothers of San Giovanni Decollato Archconfraternity, who, in Christian compassion, waited on the last moments of those w...
