Michael Lamb, a young priest who teaches in a Roman Catholic institution for troubled boys on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, becomes responsible for a 10-year-old epileptic boy, Owen Kane. Michael has formed an attachment to Owen and he takes him with him to London when he decides to secretly leave the school. His escape will be seen as a scandalous kidnapping.
rm sea, but Giò, the group leader, can't understand Edda's expectations. In the meantime, Hermann, a young German guy, decides to leave on a journey with his camera. Edda, after a failed debut, abandons the theatre company and meets Hermann. It's love at first sight. Thanks to the black and white and the cinema scope, Konermann's on-the-road movie, ric...
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...
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...
A gray day. The ocean is calm. It's 7 a.m. Jon, 18 years old, wakes up and goes to the harbour to meet his friend Patxi. Intimacy and comprehension characterize their friendship. With the help of Patxi, Jon steals a fish case and undersells it. Passing by Maite's house, he realizes that in her bedroom there is Rafa, a vulgar pusher. The girl makes Jon understand that she ca...
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.
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.
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...
Il ventiduenne Lorenzo ha ottenuto una supplenza annuale in una scuola media di un paesino ai confini del Veneto con il Friuli. Compare nella sua vita Cecilia. Il primo impatto con lei è solo fisico: la ragazza non vuole essere coinvolta dai sentimenti. Con Duilio invece, uno dei suoi alunni, nasce una profonda relazione.
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.
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...
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...
Johan is thirty-five years old. He is a baker and live in a small village where everybody knows everything about everybody. Johan can't dance, but play domino and can make an egg stand. His friend Paul suggests him to publish a notice on the newspaper to find a pen friend. A foreign woman answers him, starting an exchange of letters in which Johan doesn't reveal his true ide...
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 presents itself as a glimpse of the last days of the life of Jesus, when among the apostles there was already a hovering feeling of death and fatality. Among them a silent and dark Judas was hatching his scheme, convinced of the essential role which awaited him for the redemption of humankind. The denunciation to the Sanhedrin and the kiss given to Jesus are the fin...
A writer moves into a ground floor apartment with the hope of finding some peace to write his new book. He will soon find out why the previous tenants abandoned the apartment.
Dermot Finn loves Pearl. He is about to go to her place to meet her family, but love, as Dermot will soon find out, can turn into a terrible experience, because each of us lives in his/her own world and one's man meat is another man's poison.
There's much excitement in the kitchen for imminent arrival of a gourmand French duke and his personal waiter. Instead of preparing sandwiches at full blast for the usual clients, the fat cook can now exercise her art. But while she is peppering a lobster soufflé, she is distracted by two hands groping around the kitchen.
Terence Weller can't find a job because he has no experience, but how can he gather experience if he doesn't have a job? After an umpteenth fruitless job interview, he decides to go shopping.
Mandel Baruch was an handsome man, a "Mensch" who had sacrificed everything for business. When he dies, his beloved son, Lionel, gathers some old family friends to organize a funeral to be remembered.
