Mondo (1995)

Mientras comete una travesura, un niño descubre casualmente la identidad del criminal que mantiene en alerta a todo el barrio. Por miedo a ser castigado, no cuenta lo que sabe a su padre, un agente de policía.

La primera parte de este documental trata del neurólogo portugués António Egas Moniz, premio Nobel de Medicina en 1949, uno de los primeros cirujanos en aplicar la técnica denominada lobotomía para el tratamiento de la esquizofrenia. La segunda parte trata sobre el día a día de personas con esquizofrenia en la actualidad: su comportamiento y relaciones, y el tratamiento para la enfermedad.

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. This first volume looks at the first three letters in Grandma's encyclopaedia: A for 'Automobile', B for 'Ballon', and C for 'Chemin de fer'.

A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection.

Majka "Chatterbox" is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. While her mother keeps scolding her for the way she walks, her classmates mock her and call her a "duck". Along an innocent first love affair and a secret friendship, she receives little understanding from her parents and lots of malice from her schoolmates. Majka finds refuge with her grandmother and in her own fantasy world. Director Peter Solan made a sensitive portrait of a twelve year-old schoolgirl. The eloquent film language talks to child and adult audiences alike.

This drama about a boorish non-conformist takes place in Hungary after the war and is dulled a little by political overtones but is still an engaging story. The setting is the countryside, where an independent, landowning farmer busies himself in his free time by bedding down the women on his farm and then tossing them aside. One such ill-treated lass ends up marrying a young man who is in charge of a communal farm, a farm the womanizing "beast" of the title is later forced to join. The arrogant, formerly independent farmer does not reform his ways and is soon chasing after the young manager's wife, the woman he dropped not that long ago. The results are disastrous.

In this French drama, a teenager falls into a life of crime, little realizing the consequences. S. is a moody young man who loses his job at a bakery, and decides to throw in his lot with a group of thieves about the same age as himself. S. and his cronies are strictly small-timers, pulling off second-rate break-ins for an older crime boss, but his willingness to do what he's told helps him rise up the ladder to bigger and more lucrative jobs. However, S. lacks the maturity or experience to deal with the risks, and after a few disastrous mistakes, he finds his fortunes sinking far faster than they rose.

Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens follows the course of the famous wind as it originates in the Alps and finds its way to the Mediterranean Sea. Natural sounds and creative camera work provide a mood film showing the effect of the fury of the wind on the life of southern France.

Documental sobre el mundo del flamenco, su esencia, influencias y sus grandes figuras: Paco De Lucía, Enrique Morente, Manolo Sanlúcar, Joaquín Cortés y Tomatito, entre otros. La revista de cine "Sight and Sound" dijo de ella: "Intensamente creativa - nadie jamás ha filmado la danza mejor"

A group of convicts slowly drag their balls and chains through a desolate landscape. One of them discovers a strange structure and decides to climb it.

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is not. At one time Tomiko's father was quite fond of Nobuko's mother.

Pedro y Julián, dos amigos entomólogos de afición, están enamorados de la misma mujer, Adela, quien se decide por Pedro para casarse. Julián frecuenta al matrimonio, pero actúa hacia la mujer como si fuera su propio marido. La pasión que une a ambos amigos, la entomología, les lleva a concluir con los años un tratado, para cuya realización han ido llenando la casa de abundantes ejemplares que servirán de ilustración. La mujer, sin embargo, no está a gusto con la vida que ha llevado y quiere abandonarlos. Descubierta la enfermedad que ella padece, hace que los hombres estén dispuestos a complacerla en todo, sin que ella sepa el porqué de su cambio de actitud.

Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.

Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.

Yuko es enviada a las zonas costeras para ser criada lejos del resto de su sofisticada familia, donde se entera por su abuela enferma de que no es quien pensaba que era.

La maestra explica a sus alumnos, paso a paso y con todo tipo de detalles y ejemplos en vivo, cómo son los distintos tipos de ejecuciones: la silla eléctrica, el garrote vil, la horca... (FILMAFFINITY)

En la capital de la Nueva España, a fines del siglo XVI, se culpa de una epidemia a los judíos. Uno de éstos, don Rodrigo de Carvajal, natural de Benavente, en España, es enterrado por su viuda Francisca y sus hijos Luis, Mariana, Baltasar y el dominico Fray Gaspar. Al advertir que los familiares del muerto practican ritos judíos, Fray Gaspar los denuncia a la Santa Inquisición. Sólo Baltasar logra huir, mientras que los demás son detenidos y encarcelados. Francisca es torturada por orden del Gran Inquisidor Fray Alonso de Peralta. Mariana es violada en su celda y Luis oye los gritos de su madre desde la suya, en la que está acompañado por el alucinado Fray Hernando, un espía.

Come take an avant-garde walk in the Montparnasse of the late 1920's. This district of Paris, filmed in a most unusual way, shows how dedicated it is to art. Visit its art galleries and exhibitions, take a glimpse of famous painter Fujita, of Luis Buñuel eyeing the legs of beautiful Parisian passing the terrace of the café where he sits, of Italian futurists Marinetti, Prampolini and Russolo.

Antonio and Concha, a couple who are constantly fighting about money, win the Christmas Lottery first prize. Concha, who is very bossy, starts making decisions about how they're going to spend it. But Antonio is fed up with her, he just wants to go to Brazil, lay in the sun, and never see her again. So he starts to plan how to get rid of her...

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.