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...
In the summer of 1968, three friends, Réb, Makay and Nikita decided to leave Hungary. Only Makay obtained his passport, but Reb stole it and took off for the U.S. Seventeen years later, he comes back to Hungary with a teen-age daughter, Marylou, and starts in with his usual underhanded, sly schemes for making money. His idea is to leave his daughter to her mother and take ad...
The movie tells the story of Karrer, a depressed man who carries a secluded life, left out from everything and everybody. He spends his days walking adrift and his night s at a local bar, the Titanik, where he falls in love for a married torch singer. One day he is offered smuggling work by the bartender at the bar, but he offers the job to the husband of the singer to get h...
Therese's life, a waiter in a bar of Budapest, is filled with worries and stress. She lies with her son Robert, twenty years old, who doesn't know his father. Therese falls in love with László, a middle class police man, who moves into their house, bringing with him the hope of a peaceful family life, but soon enough, Robert's real interest becomes clearer. He is not interes...
Gli abitanti del paese delle favole sono riuniti nel castello per un grande avvenimento: la Bella Addormentata dovrebbe svegliarsi da un momento all’altro dopo aver dormito per cento anni. Accadono però alcune cose sospette. Alcuni personaggi buoni scompaiono, e lupi, streghe, draghi e giganti prendono il potere. Nessuno è in grado di opporre resistenza. ...
Tamás, a young coal miner, and Juli, a kindergarten teacher, meet in the summer of 1999. Both too bashful to declare their love to each other, their tender friendship delays to turn into love. On the 31st December, Juli decides to write to Tamás. She will wait for him at 10 that evening at Rocher bar. Tamás reads and reads again the letter, while his team leader is reading t...
In Miskolc, in 1982, a teenager shoots with a rifle to his father, without any reason, apparently. The mother, who just came back for the hospital, will find out what her son did a few days after. The boy is now in prison, where he must stay for thirteen years. His father's dream was to open again a shooting gallery. The film won the Rosa Camuna prize at Bergamo Film Meetin...
Géza is married, has two children and works in a garage, but he is unsatisfied and would like to work on his own. He decides to buy a power drill and starts working for private people. He likes his new job, which gives him the chance to meet Eva, the beautiful neighbor.
According to nature's law, the children have to bury the parents. The contrary is unnatural. The main character kills himself at the age of thirteen, apparently with no reason. The movie describes the day after the funeral. Is it the end or a new beginning? Both his parents think that more and more young people abandon the world in this way, as if there was something calling...
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...
A heavily neurotic young man starts to see his father's ghost, and while he helps the spirit cross to the otherworld, something happens that they could never achieve in their common life: they finally understand each other.
The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev (1370-1430), the great 15th-century Russian icon painter and is set during the turbulent period following the Mongol invasion of Russia. Andrej is a young monk, a iconographer, wandering to look for a job around churches and monasteries in Russia. He is convinced that in his life there is only space for art and religion....
Belov is a worker. One night he is assailed in a park by two young men, who get immediately apprehended. Only one of them who can't afford a lawyer is sentenced, while the other gets by with a suspended sentence. Belov, who is upset by this injustice, visits the one who is in prison and ask the permission to take care of him and his re-education. The two are linked by a st...
The film tells the story of orphan boy Ivan, twelve years old. It is the middle of WWII in Russia. He joins the soviet army and does reconnaissance work for the military. He is able to get through small cracks where adults could not, both because of his small physical size and the fact that no one would suspect a boy of doing such work. During one mission, Ivan disappears. I...
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, ...
