Vicente is a man full of noxious vices who wanders around Curitiba looking for his victims. Devoured by loneliness and the incessant search for pleasure, he is one of the many social vampires who inhabit a decadent city.
Many people probably know Chris Marker’s story of a time trip from a dystopian future back to the present, in which the hero experiences a traumatic event again, only through Terry Gilliam’s extroverted remake “12 Monkeys”. The original, Marker’s experimental science fiction classic “La Jetée”, however, was groundbreaking rather because of its minimalist narrative form: The 28-minute black and white photo novel with a single moving shot has made film history.
Berlin, 1943: Margot Friedländer's mother and her brother Ralph are arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the East. Unaware of her family's whereabouts, young Margot hides in the Berlin underground. After 15 months, she is caught and deported to Theresienstadt. She hopes to finally see Ralph and her mother again, but both have already been deported to Auschwitz.
A person’s roots, where he/she was born and where he/she belongs (Ibasho), are often neglected today. Nikaho-city, which gained city status in 2005 by merging three villages, is in Akita Prefecture that has the highest population of people over 65 in Japan. A place where nothing happens…
Continuum was once among the most frequently used words on the stages of the National Theatre in Prague. It has many possible interpretations, and this film explores the concept using the story of a man who is indispensable to the National Theatre.
The movie investigates the life of the last experts of one of the most ancient fishing practices: the trebuchet. The Trebuchet takes the form of a microcosm where everything happens and the characters reflect on the surviving of this practice.
Few bands are more closely associated with Montreux than Deep Purple and there was simply no other contender when it came to choosing the act to headline the closing night of the 40th Montreux Festival in 2006. The band duly delivered one of their finest live performances, sprinkling songs from their latest album "Rapture Of The Deep" through a set chock full of their classic tracks. There was even a brand new song "Too Much Fun" written especially for the occasion and, of course, a show-stopping performance of "Smoke On The Water".
There is no place on our territory so closely linked to the Holocaust as Terezín. Our pilgrim wanders its streets and meets locals who would prefer to forget the grim history of their town, after all, it was "only four years". But even though the former ghetto is barely remembered, the effort to forget is not yet bringing the town back to life. So why has Terezín become a ghost town? And to what extent does its bleak present mirror our approach to Jewish suffering as such?
Guided by the Jules Verne novel “Voyage au centre de la Terre”, four friends set out to explore Snaefellsjökul Volcano in Iceland. However, as they journeyed through the country recording sounds, they found themselves having a series of profound and transformative experiences that exceeded their original expectations. The result of their trip is an immersive audio-visual narrative titled “Journey to the Center of the Sound,” which not only guides the audience through diverse Icelandic landscapes, but also invites them to embark on their own sensory journey.
What would an ideal social service look like if clients could design it according to their own ideas? Three people with long-term experience of homelessness, falling through the cracks of social services, along with one boy who still views the world and the people in it with his heart.
A week in Leningrad in 1976, as imagined by man and artificial intelligence. Marshal Brezhnev’s anniversary and the first celebration of John Lennon’s birthday in the USSR, the landing of the last Soviet station on the Moon and a memorial service for Nikolai Gumilev, a story about a communist and the legend of Zorro – the grains of history gather in a desert of myth, over which the Red Dragon hovers…
A music video for Linda Catlin Smith’s contemporary piece, Wanderer. Performed by the Thin Edge New Music Collective in Toronto and filmed on location in the Faroe Islands.
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