When teenage boy Karol Kremer becomes an eyewitness of a brutal murder, he is not aware of how much influence that event will exert on his future.
The famous orchestra conductor Sir Alfred De Carter returns to New York after a long journey. His brother-in-law delivers him a report showing that his wife Daphne has betrayed him with his young secretary. During one of his concerts, Alfred begins planning three different ways of solving the problem - uxoricide, forgiveness, duel - setting each to a different classic...
Three ladies receive a letter from their “best friend” Addie Ross, who announces that she is running away with one of their husbands, but she does not say which one. Little by little, through the use of flashbacks we discover the weaknesses of each of the three couples, in a tale of passion, fragility, little tragedies and pettiness, illustrated with a bri...
Loznitsa’s Austerlitz is a documentary study, with almost no audible dialogue of any kind, of the increasingly established tourist phenomenon at the Nazi death camps in Germany. He sets up fixed camera positions at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen camps, which have huge visitor numbers due to being close to big cities (Munich and Berlin respectively) and simply records the...
Sparrows is a coming-of-age story about the 16-year old boy Ari, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. There, he has to navigate a difficult relationship with his father, and he finds his childhood friends changed. In these hopeless and declining&n...
SYNOPSIS Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature. ...
The prison not only as a place for detention, but for reflection and gaining awareness. Twelve months with the detainees convicted for sex crimes and the intensive treatment team from CIPM, operating the first experiment in Italy to prevent recidivism of sexual violence. A treatment designed to understand, redefine and then change the meaning of our own e...
Through valuable archive material and the real voices of female partisan, this film tells the role of women in the Italian Resistance. According to many, this period marked the birth of feminism in Italy, where the struggle fo liberation is also seen as emancipation and pursuit of freedom and equality. What happened after the celebrations of April 25, 1945? What did women g...
Evelyne works as a stripper in a nightclub, trying to scrape a living for herself and her young son. When a man she loved years earlier suddenly reappears she decides to pretend, for a few days at least, that her life has been more successful. But when Georges ask her to leave for Canada with him and her child, she must make a final choice.
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal blood breeches protocol. The Crown allows the union only after the couple agrees to a morganatic marriage. The emperor further neutralizes Fr...
