Maxhumain (1998)

A remote village in the Northwest of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting, no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted. The landscapes and buildings are not so much inhabited as lightly entwined and then passed through by their anonymous residents, like some creeping mist. Phantoms half stuck, half undone in a phantom world—lost persons from a lost society?

Theodore Ushev’s acclaimed 20th century trilogy concludes with this brilliant fusion of 3D and Russian constructivist-styled animation. Recycling elements of surrealism and cubism, this animated short by Theodore Ushev focuses on the relationship between art and war. Propelled by the exalting “invasion” theme from Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony (No. 7), the film presents imagery of combat fronts and massacres, leading us from Dresden to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to Star Wars. It is at once a symphony that serves the war machine, that stirs the masses, and art that mourns the dead, voices its outrage and calls for peace.

A soldier with a fur hat hides in a closet.

Norte de México, a principios del siglo XX. Reynaldo del Hierro es asesinado mientras cabalga con sus hijos Reynaldo y Martín, cuya madre les inculca la necesidad de vengarse.

Este documental, ganador a mejor ópera prima en la 51° edición de los premios Ariel, muestra a la abuela de la realizadora para introducir las historias y vivencias que pasaron en su casa de huéspedes. La joven cineasta reflexiona sobre la verdad y la leyenda, el recuerdo y las relaciones entre los seres humanos, que pueden moverse, veleidosamente, desde el amor hasta el ansia criminal.

'Artel' portrays one day in the life of a small fisher community in the north of Russia.

A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

An imagined apocalypse is presented to us through portraits of people struggling to survive in a hostile environment, where they only have themselves and the only thing they have in common is the desire to live, no matter the cost.

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).

En la costa de Tabasco vive un tiburonero, respetado como el mejor; vive con su amante, a cuya familia ayuda económicamente. En un momento debe decidir si quedarse en este pueblo o regresar a la capital, donde vive su familia. Decide hacerlo, aunque su vida en la ciudad no es de su agrado...

Femenino/masculino, duro/suave, frío/calor, continuo/discontinuo, fragmentado/entero: coreografía de un día/noche en la fábrica.

Aurelio vuelve a su pueblo tras cumplir una condena por vengar la violación de su amada Paloma a manos de Julio González. Al llegar se entera de que su madre ha muerto y que Paloma vive exiliada del pueblo con su hijo, fruto de la violación. Aurelio busca casarse con Paloma y olvidar el pasado, pero el malvado Julio y su hermano Ramiro no están dispuestos a dejarlos en paz.

A homeless kid addicted to sniffing glue is part of a vicious circle of dysfunction and sexual abuse.

Está ambientada en la Lima del año 1989, el fin de una década marcada por la inestabilidad política, severa crisis económica por la hiperinflación y la violencia terrorista. Se entrecruzan tres historias, cuyos protagonistas pertenecen a tres generaciones distintas. Una de ellas es la de Lizandro y Cucha, pareja de ancianos que han perdido a su único hijo. La otra historia es la de Humberto, exitoso locutor de radio de un programa que da esperanza a la gente y finalmente, la historia de la abuela ciega, que vive con sus nietos, a quienes explota y maltrata.

Focuses on a boy as he discovers love and comes to face the morality of his family. The film speaks of this through a web of oblique details, attempting to capture the flesh of relations and, perhaps, the very tension of being...

Un hombre abandona la Ciudad de México para irse al campo a preparar su muerte. Allí se aloja con una vieja viuda india en una desvencijada casa con vistas a un desolado cañón. En la inmensidad de un salvaje e imponente paisaje, se enfrenta a la infinita humanidad de la vieja viuda, y su conducta oscila entre la crueldad y el lirismo. Sus embotados sentidos se despiertan y así se renuevan su instinto vital y sus deseos sexuales.