Any Way the Wind Blows (2003)
Género : Drama, Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 7M
Director : Tom Barman
Sinopsis
Antwerp, at the beginning of June. On a sunny Friday, eight people dream of having a different life. There's wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip and fighting. There's an old virus, an astrayed frisbee, a dead horse, and a mysterious person called Windman. In the evening there's a party …
Lara, de 15 años, sueña con convertirse en bailarina. Con el apoyo de su padre, se lanza de lleno a esta búsqueda interminable. Pero su cuerpo no se doblega tan fácilmente a la disciplina que le impone, porque en realidad cuando nació era un niño.
Franky es una ladrón de diamantes que tiene que entregar una enorme pieza a su jefe Avi, pero en el camino es tentado por Boris para apostar en un combate ilegal de boxeo. En realidad, es una trampa para atracarle por lo que, cuando Avi se entera, contrata a Tony para encontrar a Franky y el diamante. Pronto se descubre el triste destino de Franky, y la caza y captura de la gema desaparecida lleva a todo el mundo a un juego de locos que corre el riesgo de descontrolarse, donde el engaño, el chantaje y el fraude se mezclan de forma sangrienta con perros, diamantes, boxeadores y gran variedad de armas en una caótica merienda de negros.
Tras un infructuoso asalto a una casa, Dave se ve obligado a huir, dejando tras de sí a su hermano Kenneth, quien por no delatar a su hermano deberá pasar cuatro años en la cárcel. Al cabo de ese tiempo, Kenneth quiere retomar las cosas justo desde el lugar en que las dejó pero las cosas, inevitablemente, han cambiado: Sylvie, su novia, no quiere volverlo a ver y Dave ahora es un abstemio empecinado en volver al buen camino. Lo que ignora, además, es que Dave y Sylvie tienen algo más que esconder: ambos sueñan con una vida banal, honesta y ordenada en el seno de la cual podría incubarse su futura pequeña familia. (FILMAFFINITY)
De resultas del asesinato de un importante funcionario público, el departamento de policía de Amberes comisionó a dos de sus mejores investigadores criminalistas para investigar el caso: Vincke y Verstuyft. Las pistas conducen al sicario Angelo Ledda. A Ledda, que experimenta síntomas del alzheimer, le resulta cada vez más difícil ejecutar los encargos.Cuando se da cuenta de que está siendo utilizado en una lucha por el poder político, decide morder la mano que le da de comer. A Vincke y Verstuyft les cuesta mucho desenmarañar la trama de intrigas, redes e intereses creados para poder evitar que se cometan más crímenes.
A chilling thriller about a woman, who upon moving in with her new boyfriend, becomes obsessed with the fate of the previous tenant and descends into madness.
Deborah tiene quince años, vive desde hace poco con su madre, que acaba de perder su trabajo, y su hermano pequeño en casa de su abuelo, situación que le irrita bastante. Pero mucho más odia tener que pedir dinero para poder comprarse ropa o caprichos. Cuando descubre que su vecina hace mucho dinero trabajando de "escort", Deborah no lo dudará...
Adamo, un joven marroquí-italiano que vive en Bélgica, perdió a sus padres a los 6 años, y su tío Farid, un amigo de su padre, le acogió en su familia. Acompañado de tres amigos inseparables, Badia, Younes y Volt, que también viven en el barrio de 't Kiel' en Amberes, están dispuestos a todo para convertirse en legendarios pandilleros. Los cuatro se sumergen de cabeza en una guerra de bandas, dejándose llevar por un torbellino de delincuencia cuyas repercusiones llegan hasta Colombia
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
A full concert film featuring Shirley Bassey on stage in Antwerp, Belgium during the 'Diamond Awards Festival', including some of her greatest hits, interspersed with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.
A story about two struggling people who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?
Ryo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She inherits a bathhouse and meets a pyromaniac named Yusaku. Their confrontation leads to an inevitable union, just like elements of nature blend together.
Created under a “manifesto” whose directives would make Lars von Trier shudder, this three-part film might look on paper like an exercise in forced hipness. Fortunately, its directors – Harmony Korine (USA), Alexsei Fedorchenko (Russia) and Jan Kwiecinski (Poland) – prove innovative and just insane enough to make The Fourth Dimension an exhilarating experiment.
Documentary about the 2002 murder of Iranian football star Nasser Mohammad Khani's wife, the subsequent confession to the crime by his mistress Shahla and her fight to escape the death sentence. (Storyville)
This way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment. It's midnight. He appears agitated and distraught. He throws a glass of water in his face and laughs. He takes off the coat and tie. His moods swing. He stares at a light bulb. He removes his shirt. He lights a cigarette. He looks at a book. He does something drastic and self-destructive. He opens doors to a garden.
The director has visited tens of cemeteries. He records monuments above mass graves and memorials that people pile above the ground where the dead bodies lie.
The film is officially untitled, but is referred to by the dedication that appears in place of a title card. It is dedicated to Marilyn Brakhage, the filmmaker's wife. Out of all the 350+ films that Stan Brakhage made, this was his personal favorite.
A largely plotless, fado-scored journey through the gloomy cobblestone streets, zombie bars, and fetid basements of a sordid harbor town populated by German-speaking sots and Portuguese guest workers. An unhappy young couple, Leni and Anton, quarrel and split separately into the rat’s ass of the evening. Everyone is looking for love, but no one finds any—although Leni does pick up a trick.
Three young girls on their way to adulthood. Xiao-Bu fights over a cigarette with her friend Angel. Ah-Mi sleeps with Xiao-Bu’s boyfriend. He is very popular and lets Angel steal a kiss. Can it get any worse? Life with a depressive, alcoholic father, who can only stare out of the window, for example. Or is it actually worse when dove excrements ruin the new dress that was supposed to be worn on the date with a handsome guy? When you are 17, a coin can still be thrown in order to make decisions. Should the friendship with Angel remain? Is everything that happened a coincidence? Adolescence without emotional chaos is like a life without reason. Is it really of importance who loves who the most, or is it just a game?
A man and a woman wake up in a hospital room. She's a nurse, he's a patient. Problem: a large metal object on his back. While the woman tries desperately to escape, the man experiences an inner struggle on the borderline of dream and reality. What has happened before?
Influenciado por los films enraizados en el manifiesto dogma, la película narra el calamitoso proceso de desamor que sufre el famoso actor danés Nicolas Bro cuando un buen día su mujer le comunica que ha dejado de quererle. Lo curioso del relato es que es el propio actor quien se filma a sí mismo en su rutina diaria habitual, haciéndonos partícipes en directo de su drama personal.
A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria Semionovna, scenes of the colours of summer time: hay–making, bathing in a river, work in the flax fields and a holiday in the Crimea. The second chapter, set nine years later, is in black and white and deals with how Maria Semionovna's life ended. The mood is one of a sad and elegiac narration.
An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.
Bruno ama a su mujer Maxine, pero su amor y su cuerpo poco a poco van sufriendo una transformación. Algo está empezando a moverse dentro de él y no hay nada que pueda hacer para detenerlo. Porque cuando profundizas en el lado oscuro del amor para encontrar el poder, la agresión y el odio, no hay vuelta atrás.
This remarkable trove of color footage, assembled from far-flung private and state collections, presents Hitler's Europe as never seen before. Amateur film enthusiasts - soldiers, tourists, Hitler's own pilot, even Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun - began experimenting with color film in the late 1930s, their camera eye recording the Third Reich from every angle. Some of this film was only recently uncovered in former Soviet-bloc archives, hidden for almost 60 years; all of it, thanks to digital technology, has been newly transferred to video with surprising clarity. (This documentary was produced with two different narratives, both an English and German language version.)
Hamdias, a producer who's set out to break new boundaries, plans to finance a film about torture. According to him, torture, the clash of two or more people, is not only what substantiates basic human relationships but also love and politics. Unfortunately Hamdias dies in a freak accident and his project is grounded. After some time, Galai (Olga Karlatos), who should have been the main actress of Hamdias movie, sets out to complete the controversial project. As soon as filming starts again, the thin line that separates reality from a nightmarish obsession begins slowly to blur.
La película narra tres episodios en la cruel vida de Harry Voss, alegórico personaje de alguno de los cuentos de Charles Bukowski.
When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old child. And Patrick's gone. Reunited with the old gang, Black Kelly realizes that life went on during her absence and that things will never be the same...
Matthew Sweet explores his rules of 1940s and 50s American film noir thrillers.
Una solitaria y madura solterona intenta inocentemente aprovechar su última oportunidad para conseguir marido y, al mismo tiempo, la protección que necesita. (FILMAFFINITY)