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.
Pablo is a strange guy. He eats only wild fruits and dogs get furious when he passes by. One day he runs away and holes up in the forest. He risks to be torn to pieces by some dogs but he is rescued by Luis, a psychologist. Pablo now resembles an animal. Luis brings him back to town to educate him. Ana, a young piano player will awaken his feelings. The movie was screened at...
The movie tells about Pascual Duarte's life, born in 1902 and sentenced to death in 1937 for having killed his mother and Don Jesus, the wealthiest nester of the region. On the background, the Spanish events which will lead to the seizure of power by the popular front and the following victory of Francisco Franco. Based on the novel by the nobel Prize-winning José Cela, "La ...
31st December 1999, outskirts of Madrid. Manuel and his wife, Paloma, who is in the final stages of pregnancy, are invited to dinner at her parents' house. Manuel asks to borrow his friend's truck, but Paloma's father, to underline the shortage of his son in law, insists to pick them up with his big car, but the car is being stolen. That's the beginning of a bizarre new year...
Augustín, medico rabdomante, sua moglie Julia e la figlia Estrella abitano a La Gaviota, una casa nei sobborghi di una città nel Nord della Spagna. Estrella, cresciuta subendo il fascino di Augustín, da adolescente si confronta con la figura paterna e il sospetto che nella sua vita ci sia stata un'altra donna. Man mano che nuovi elementi sul passato ...
Tasio, born in a farmhouse at the feet of the Urbesca mountains, becomes a charcoal burner at the age of fourteen and meets Paulina during a dancing at their village and she will become his wife. Tasio leads a free life, alternating his job to the activity of poacher, which he will never abandon, not even during the most difficult moments, when he will be abandon by everybody.
The legendary Oleg Nikolayevitch Karavaychuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the eccentric and still active 89-year-old Russian. Several biographical facts: Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaychuk (1927) played the pi...
Kosovo 2004, five years after the war. Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
1944. Several days before Finland pulls out of the war against the Soviet Union, Veikko, a Finnish sniper ( "Kukushka" in Finnish), is turned in by his Finnish and German compatriots for being a pacifist and, in their eyes, a would-be deserter. In prison he meets Ivan, a Captain in the Red Army, arrested because he was accused of anti-Soviet correspondence. The two manage to...
Una storia familiare ambientata nella Russia rurale. La vita di un padre introverso e della figlia adolescente gira intorno ai loro viaggi su un furgone rosso, la loro casa su ruote, e le proiezioni cinematografiche che portano in piccole città e villaggi dispersi. Un road movie che ricorda le peregrinazioni di Wenders e i paesaggi di Tarkovskij, nella fredda e deso...
An ordinary family dinner becomes a fuse sparking a family crisis when four brothers discover something they hadn’t known about their father’s past. We are in contemporary Bucharest but the ghost of the Ceaus?escu dictatorship, which fell not so long ago, leaves traces in every family and brings to light the irreconcilable differences separating the generation wh...
Radu is a simple trainee journalist, but an international scandal involving an underage prostitute seems to be the chance for him to prove his value. He is ready to overcome each obstacle and deliver a good story. However, the task turns out to be trickier than expected and the more he approaches his goal, the more he gets close to some moral limits. In collabor...
Durante una vacanza in montagna, un padre cerca di entrare nel mondo misterioso del suo bambino autistico. Un mondo di rifiuto. Il padre cerca di rompere l’isolamento del bambino, ma invano, e proprio in misura dei suoi tentativi, quell’isolamento incomincia gradualmente a contagiarlo.
Synopsis Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she...
Lisbon, 1994, a winter day. A forty years old woman spends the eight hours before the birth of her first child in desperation. Her partner, much younger that her, invents tragic, comic, caothic, crazy stories which correspond to the passing of the hours. The stories alleviate her pain.
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...
David, a wooden masks sculptor, and Adélia, an ancient songs singer, are the main characters of this film set in Trás-os-Montes, a region in north-east Portugal. They witness the condition of abandon of this region, a land that still perserves the traces of a very ancient ocean. The stones, the fields, the vegetation devouring the abandoned houses, taking back what it once o...
Stefan è in pellegrinaggio verso il santuario di Lourdes. Hasim e Urika, due piccoli rifugiati ceceni, hanno attraversato il confine russo-polacco illegalmente. Quando capiscono che Stefan sta partendo, si nascondono nella sua auto, nella speranza di arrivare fino in Francia e ricongiugersi al proprio padre. Ciò che accade in questo viaggio tra Stefan e i bambi...
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.
DAL 5 MAGGIO AL CINEMA Angelo e Kasia si incontrano e innamorano in Italia, entrambi fanno parte del movimento cattolico dei Focolarini. Quando lei decide di tornare in Polonia per entrare in convento, lui decide di seguirla nella speranza che cambi idea. Nel frattempo, a Varsavia, trova lavoro in una multinazionale, dove la sua superiore Krystyna, una donna disinibita e ...
