Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. was realized during the shootings of the monumental documentary Shoah. In Shoah nobody of the main Jewish characters had given testimony for Sobibor, one of only two successful uprisings at a Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War, a revolt that Lanzman defines " Jewish people's recover of their strength and violence". The rec...
Psychologist Kris Kelvin is about to embark on an interstellar journey to a space station orbiting the remote oceanic planet Solaris. He spends his last day on Earth reflecting on his life while walking by a lake near his childhood home where his elderly father still resides. Upon his arrival at Solaris Station, none of the three remaining scientists bother to greet Kelvin, ...
A scorching summer day in a degraded and unreal southern city. Four kids meet a black prostitute and so, a day similar to many others turns into a moment of discovery and growth.
A man walks down the exterior staircase of some building. He passes a small window and sees a young woman standing at a washbasin, drying her hair with a towel that covers her face. Fearing to be seen, the man starts down the stairs, only to return to the window afterwards. He again looks in the same window and this time he sees a man brushing his teeth who gives him an uns...
The last exam of the summer session is close and Emanuele fears to fail. As anybody else in that situation, he would like to have a substitute.
1940. Escaping from Italy, Maria and her boyfriend Olmo, a political activist, arrive to London where they hope to get asylum, but when Italy enters the war, Olmo gets arrested by the British authorities. Maria, alone, will be helped by Beatrice, who offers her protection and refugee on her boat.
Forced in bed by a sickness, Alexei pounders about his life, mixing past present, reality and imagination. He thinks back to his father who abandoned his mother and this reminds him of his actual situation. The man is living a similar situation: he divorced from his wife Natalija and has a son, Ignat, who refuses to see him. The same actress plays the role of his mother and ...
On the day of his marriage, Julie's husband gets killed for fun by a group of friends. After an attempt of killing herself, Julie decides to take revenge, killing all the five men. Julie reminds of Tarantino's bride of Kill Bill. For both of them, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Veronica is thirty-eight years old, she comes from Rumania and she has been sentenced to eight years in prison for trafficking in human beings, but she doesn't lose heart…
n Macao, Mr. Clay, a wealthy old merchant, with the idea of showing that money is more powerful than any other phantasy, wants to make a legendary tale come true. The story tells about a rich old man who offers a sailor some money to impregnate his wife. "I don't like pretense… - Clay says - I like facts. If this tale has never happened, I will make it true". Orson Welles' f...
