Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

Segunda parte (tras "My Childhood") de la trilogía autobiográfica de Douglas sobre el hecho de crecer en un pueblo pobre de Escocia dedicado a la minería. La penuria, tanto emocional como física, es retratada con libertad, ayudándose de actores locales y no profesionales. (FILMAFFINITY)

Primera parte de la trilogía autobiográfica de Bill Douglas sobre el hecho de crecer en un pueblo pobre de Escocia dedicado a la minería. La penuria, tanto emocional como física, es retratada con libertad, ayudándose de actores locales y no profesionales. (FILMAFFINITY)

La última parte de la trilogía autobiográfica de Douglas se ocupa de la historia de Jamie al final de la adolescencia, cuando rehúsa aceptar un trabajo en una mina de carbón y mientras hace el servicio militar en Egipto expresando su deseo indeciso de ser director de cine. El cambio de escenario otorga finalmente a Douglas los nuevos horizontes que hicieron posible esta trilogía, iniciada con "My Childhood" (1972) y continuada con "My Ain Folk" (1973). (FILMAFFINITY)

Eric es un chico de casi 17 años que vive en Sandusky, Ohio. Estamos a mediados de los años 80, y en las listas de éxitos triunfan Boy George y Eurithmics. Sigue con su novia de siempre, Maggie, aunque algo empieza a cambiar en él cuando encuentra trabajo en un restaurante del parque de atracciones local. Allí conoce a un chico llamado Rod. Lo que empieza como amistad llegará a ser algo más, lo que le alejará de Maggie y de sus padres. Eric comenzará así a descubrir un mundo nuevo que tal vez sea el suyo.

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly active mind so he can get a decent night's sleep, capturing the details of what it's like to suffer from a chronic sleep disorder. As he struggles to find balance, his friends and family -- who endure the worst of Berliner's bouts with insomnia -- question whether he really wants to find a cure.

Marcos Salzman siempre estaba interesado en el Kung-Fu y la cultura china, afirma haber visto todas las películas de Kung-Fu. En 1982, con un título en literatura china, visita una universidad provincial en China durante dos años para enseñar a los profesores chinos el idioma Inglés. Se entera de los refinamientos de la conducta correcta en el pueblo chino, se hace amigo de sus alumnos, se enamora... pero también aprende sobre la represión política, sobre todo cuando está prohibido el contacto con algunos de sus amigos.

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.

Guitarist Ko-chanis a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.

Film dividido en tres episodios, que refleja la vida y opiniones de Nanni Moretti. «En mi Vespa» es una aproximación a la vida cotidiana de Roma durante el mes de agosto; en "Islas" visita a Gerardo, un amigo que lleva once años viviendo en Lipari; juntos recorren otras íslas como Salina, Stromboli, Panarea y Alicudi. En "Médicos" el director rueda su propia quimioterapia y su recorrido por hospitales y especialistas incapaces de diagnosticarle la causa de unos insoportables picores.

A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority has stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the danger involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authorities: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate. This is accompanied by an excessive amount of hugging and kissing, and also a clash between Muslim and Western cultures.

Hartmann proposes a 76-minute film in which each minute stands for a year of his life. This obsessive rule is invoked in the last 4 “years” of his life (and of the film). A cable-car journey codes in its own duration the secret of a perdurable shot. A poetic emancipation by a young filmmaker: a life plan finding its right frame. Roger Koza

Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, compiles his Super 8 footage for an intimate look at what it was like to be a member of one of the world's biggest rock bands.

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adulterous adventures, has encounters with boxing pros and famous portrait artists, and schemes to purchase the perfect pond to fulfill his passion for fishing. When the Nazis gain control, the comedy turns sour - he loses his lake, his job, and finally, his family.

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

The story, set in the heady post-war 50s into the early 60s , revolves around a love triangle between Tomoko, long playing the mistress to married older writer Shitto and the new stud who comes into her life, Ryota Kinoshita. Tomoko is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo, who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota Kinoshita, but Tomoko is not satisfied.

Has Matthew been wasting his life? He’s 29 years old with 4 memberships at adult video stores, 55 tapes of compiled porn, and absolutely nothing to show for it: no girlfriend, no ambition, only a big stack of porn. Run Run It's Him is the true to life story of what happens when man stays too long in his apartment having sex with himself. It is also a funny, honest and optimistic look at the way porn affects people’s lives in the 21st century.

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle, autobiographical examination of the feeling of loneliness and the existential issue of not understanding life on earth and ones place among it.