Pointing to the Sun and Laughing (On a Stack of Poems)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar to the veins in a leaf. Sometimes the images look like paper cutouts, like Matisse. Green objects occasionally appear. Most wings are translucent. The technique makes them appear to be stuck directly to the film.

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

A series of poems.

Experimental film consisting of a single static shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.

Shalini Saxena lives a wealthy life-style with her brother Rajesh. She attends college and writes a few poems under the name Seema as part time activity, she meets her fellow collegian an orphan called Arun Kumar who sings for important occasions usually following the words of her poem. Shalini loves Arun wholeheartedly but is unable to express her feelings to him and thus she secretly helps Arun to not only become a popular singer but also rich. And then Arun gets married to the college principal daughter Meena; this breaks Shalini's heart and to make matters worse she is diagnosed with throat cancer and does not have any longer to live.

Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. Merchant 's treatment is wry and good humored , as his characters - an aging Urdu poet (Shashi Kapoor) and a worshipful young college lecturer - clash despite their shared passion for the beauty of words.

Un escritor norteamericano viaja a Francia tras perder su trabajo por un escándalo. Allí conoce a una enigmática mujer viuda... Basada en una novela de Douglas Kennedy. (FILMAFFINITY)

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and some of the ancient myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as an awesome but methodical working-out of all the individual's past experiences. Film without words.

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.

Frente el museo de Chéjov, un joven hombre tiene un encuentro místico con un fantasma que bien podría ser el del mismo Chéjov. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un respetado abogado (Michael Fassbender) del sudoeste de Estados Unidos decide participar por primera vez en una operación de tráfico de drogas en la frontera mexico-norteamericana. Su principal motivo es el de obtener dinero rápido y poder casarse con su querida novia, la dulce Laura (Penélope Cruz). Su conexión con los cárteles son Reiner (Javier Bardem), un ostentoso capo de la droga irremediablemente enamorado de su chica, la sexy y ambiciosa Malkina (Cameron Diaz), y Westray (Brad Pitt), un intermediario amigo suyo.

Martin, un trompetista de nu-jazz con un estilo único, lucha contra las convenciones y la mediocridad. No acepta ningún compromiso, ni en la música ni en el amor. Cuando percibe que Kristina, el amor de su vida, sólo le ama por sus talentos musicales, se siente profundamente herido. Decepcionado, se despide de ella y de toda su vida anterior. En los márgenes de la sociedad, conoce a una mujer mayor, Hanna, que le lega todo su dolor en forma de poemas. Martin se queda inmediatamente fascinado. ¿Podrán guiarle de vuelta a sí mismo, a Kristina o a su música?.

A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

El cineasta Alan Berliner realiza un retrato íntimo de su primo y antiguo mentor Edwin Honig, que atraviesa los últimos años de su vida con Alzheimer. Durante la conversación que da base al documental, se vislumbra la llama de su espíritu poético.

Takashi Makino’s source of inspiration, our place in the world and the universe, never seems to dry up in view of the never-ending flow of immersive films. Generator may well be the earthiest of his films so far, made as a reaction to the Fukushima disaster. A reality check, but in the world that Makino shows, this can never be achieved without looking inwards too.

Un famoso poeta es incapaz de encontrar el amor de su vida. Se queda con su hermana Karuna que es su sistema de apoyo hasta que conoce a Smruti cerca del lago en circunstancias misteriosas. Jaidev la lleva a su casa y se ocupa de ella en contra de los deseos de su hermana, quien no quiere que Smruti se quede con ellos, ya que ella detecta algo malo en ella.

EEUU /// Biopic de uno de los iconos de la cultura norteamericana, el poeta Allen Ginsberg, bisagra entre el mundo beat de los 50 y el movimiento hippie de los 60. Howl (Aullido) narra tres historias entrelazadas: el desarrollo de un histórico juicio por obscenidad en 1957, las revelaciones de un artista rebelde que rompe barreras para encontrar el amor y la redención, y un imaginativo viaje a través de una profética obra maestra que sacudió a toda una generación.