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...
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble grasping?
Mohammed and Abdallah are two young Palestinians from Gaza. Since a few years they have practiced Parkour, a discipline they discovered on YouTube. The passion for this art leads them to create a group of practitioners in the quarter where they live. One day, their biggest dream comes true: leaving the Gaza Strip to go to Italy to meet the Italian practitioners. During this ...
Young cello student (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of a private detective (Maurice Chevalier), falls in love with one of the persons under surveillance, the American playboy Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper), who is widely liked by the ladies in Paris. Arianna saves Frank from a jealous husband and gets to know him better. She introduces herself like an experienced woman and she pl...
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...
Vincent, an honest worker, deals unwittingly a counterfeit 500 francs note. The real guilty parties report him and he ends up in prison. When he comes out, he finds himself alone. His daughter is dead and his wife left him. He is hosted by an old lady, but he ends up killing her and the others guests and then surrenders to the police. Inspired by L. Tolstoj's short story "Th...
One night, Abed, a young Palestinian, enters illegally West Jerusalem passing through the sewage pipe under the wall dividing the city. He works in a restaurant with Claudia, the main character of the anecdote, half a dream half a story, which he tells to entertain his collegues while they smoke the last cigarette of the evening. A day when the restaurant was closed, he deci...
In Arcadia, you trust no one. The world is under siege, and for Gavin's mum, even breakfast would be a trap. When Gavin says he's going out, his parents suspect the worst. The have no doubts he will become a criminal. Yet Arcadia is not like our world and nobody can imagine what kind of criminal Gavin is, not even Gavin himself.
The film tells about the daily lives of young children in Thiers, France. Patrick, thirteen years old, struggles through his first sentimental fervors, while other kids experience their own small dramas: Grégory falls from the window and gets away unharmed, Sylvie, reprimanded for whining, asks for help from all her neighbours, the brothers Deluca get into trouble trying to...
Anna, an American nanny is employed by a rich Spanish family to take care of three girls. On the isolated country estate, Anna meets the three family men who embody the stereotypes of the Francoist Spain. Like three wolves, the three men encircle Anna reflecting the oppression of the army, the religion and the family. The film was screened at the festival of Cannes in 1973.
Do animals have souls? And machines? A silent mechanical projectionist observes animals and men interacting in old Super 8 footages.
The brilliant director Andrey Tarkovsky, whose works are considered masterpieces of world cinema, left us with eight films and an ever growing interest in and desire to understand his work. The documentary recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destin...
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....
Antoine Doinel is 35 years old. He is married to Christine, but they divorce and stay on good terms. In the movie, the last chapter of the saga dedicated to Antoine Doinel, the protagonist meets again the women who left a mark in his life and, after several vicissitudes, he will find happiness with Sabine.
Dshua, a farmer who respects traditions, lives with his wife and his 11 years old kid, Gega. While bringing to town some ritual offers, he witnesses the cruelty and fierceness of the revolutionalists. Back to his village, a counter-revolutionary group tries to convince him to join them, but the farmer denies any commitment: he only wants to live on his land, as he has always...
Rado is a driver who carries vegetables and fruits, but covertly he is also a smuggler. When Plamen, his 14 years old kid, finds out his dad's shady deals he turns into a rebel. Rado recognizes his mistakes, but Plamen deserts his home. With an extreme act, Rado will try to recover his kid's respect.
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...
Peter Hradil, a former doctor, arrives in a small mountain village to work in the local sawmill. Here he meets for the second time Marta Vlachová, his last patient. When he met her for the first time, he was at the beginning of his career as a doctor, and for her he carried out an illegal abortion which cost him his degree in medicine. She asks him to leave the village, but ...
