A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf and, although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him to read and count. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where ...
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his...
Xiaoyang vive a Taipei con il fratello Xiaofang e la sorellina. I tre sono orfani di madre e il padre lavora in un’altra città: l'unico parente vicino è il nonno. Xiaoyang lavora come cameriera in un fast-food; Xiaofang gestisce un locale, dove lavora un suo amico, Asang, che, come lo stesso Xiaofang, ha un passato poco pulito. I due cercano di compor...
Dong Dong and his younger sister are sent to spend their holidays at their grandparents' house in the countryside. They soon join a group of children and spend their days playing in the fields and in the creek near the railway. Once in a while they get news from the city about their mother who is at the hospital. One day, their dad comes to pick them up. Holidays are over.
The movie follows Ah Xiao's life, who lives with his family, emigrated from China to Fengshan, in the southern part of Taiwan. As a teenager, Ah Xiao joins a gang, but he would like to attend the Military Academy. His mom dies because of a cancer. At her funeral, Ah Xiao cries for the first time in his life. Even the director, considered the first in line amongst the ones w...
Four young men have just finished school in their island fishing village in Taiwan and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Gaoxiang to look for work. There they face the harsh reality of the big city. The movie attracted the attention of Olivier Assayas, a young critic who works for Cahiers du cinéma.
Qin works as an assistant of a manager and her good working position allows her to buy a house. Lon, her boyfriend, is always talking about vague American dreams into which he wishes to involve her. When her company merge with a bigger one, she finds herself without a job. On top of that, her love story with Lon seems to finish, because he is too similar to her father. One o...
Kirpi is a middle-class writer whose latest screenplay has been rejected. He is married to a sharp-tongued woman who dubs the voice of Marilyn Monroe. He will find himself involved in Kiraz's marital distress, his servant. Left Istanbul to reach Kiraz in her village, in the Turkish countryside, he finds out that away from the sophistication of the capital, life is regulated ...
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.
Helén and Jenö are waiting for a child and are desperately searching for an accomodation. They eventually sign a contract with an old lady, Szeréna, who lives in a two-family house. According to the contract, they are to pay a moderate rent and they have to take care of her until her death. After the first weeks, Szeréna accuses the couple of trying to poison her and build...