The Eye Above the Well (1988)

En sus 200.000 años de existencia, el hombre ha roto el equilibrio de casi 4.000 millones de años de evolución de la Tierra. El precio a pagar es considerable, pero es demasiado tarde para ser pesimistas. A la humanidad le quedan diez años escasos para invertir la tendencia, concienciarse de la explotación desmesurada de las riquezas de la Tierra y cambiar el modo de consumo. Yann Arthus-Bertrand, con sus imágenes inéditas de más de 50 países vistos desde el cielo, compartiendo con nosotros su capacidad de asombro y también sus preocupaciones, coloca, con esta película, una piedra en el edificio que tenemos que reconstruir, todos juntos.

Rachel Keller es una periodista de investigación que no da mucho crédito a lo que considera una especie de leyenda urbana: al parecer, circula por ahí una cinta de vídeo con imágenes aterradoras, que va acompañada de una llamada telefónica en la que se predice, con una semana de antelación, la muerte de quien las ha visto. Sin embargo, cuando cuatro adolescentes encuentran la muerte exactamente una semana después de ver el vídeo, la curiosidad se apodera de ella y no parará hasta encontrar la cinta y verla.

Ambientada en el mítico mundo de los rudos vikingos y los dragones salvajes, y basada en el libro infantil de Cressida Cowell, esta comedia de acción narra la historia de Hipo, un vikingo adolescente que no encaja exactamente en la antiquísima reputación de su tribu como cazadores de dragones. El mundo de Hipo se trastoca al encontrar a un dragón que le desafía a él y a sus compañeros vikingos, a ver el mundo desde un punto de vista totalmente diferente.

Remake del clásico de Stephen King en el que un payaso aterroriza a los niños de un vecindario. En un pequeño pueblo de Maine, siete niños conocidos como el Club de los Perdedores se encuentran cara a cara con problemas de la vida, matones y un monstruo que toma la forma de un payaso llamado Pennywise.

Un meteorito se estrella cerca de la granja de los Gardner, liberando un organismo extraterrestre que convierte la tranquila vida rural de la familia en una pesadilla colorista y alucinógena. Uno de los relatos más emblemáticos de Lovecraft llega al cine de la mano de Nicolas Cage y Richard Stanley.

Un terrible experimento provoca la mutación de un grupo de cuervos volviéndolos locos y agresivos. El pánico estalla en una pequeña población rural cuando las aves, sedientas de sangre, se ensañan con sus habitantes. Parece no haber modo de detener la matanza, pero los que aguanten al primer ataque, deberán mantenerse juntos y unir sus fuerzas si quieren sobrevivir al día más terrorífico de sus vidas.

Después de la muerte de la madre de Rini, algo perturba a su familia. Remake del film indonesio "Satan's Slave" (Pengabdi Setan), estrenado en 1982 y dirigido por Sisworo Gautama Putra, que a su vez era un remake de "Phantasma" de Don Coscarelli.

Aventuras de un poderoso guerrero Kain, por las tortuosas tierras del Planeta Ura.

Después de robar un enorme alijo de la droga, Hector y Darena, dos colgados de las anfetaminas planean cocinar cristal y de este modo hacerse ricos muy rápidamente. Un antiguo amigo de Hector, Merle, conoce el laboratorio perfecto, una granja abandonada en el bosque donde nadie podrá encontrarlos. Desgraciadamente, tampoco podrán oírse sus gritos. Cuentan que la granja forma parte de una horrible leyenda, ¿Estarán realmente solos ahí dentro? Atormentados por demonios, paranoias y visiones escalofriantes, el aterrorizado trío se ve envuelto en una espiral espeluznante de adicción a las drogas, continúa falta de sueño y misteriosas alucinaciones, todo esto con consecuencias mortales.

The film tells the story of eleven Turkish Cypriot workers who left their homes in a bus in 1964 that never came back. Their remains were found in a well in Cyprus in October 2006.

The story of a cat who, legend has it, longs to become human.

Viola y Nicola están pasando por un momento difícil. Para superar esta crisis, deciden pasar un fin de semana en una remota cabaña que perteneció a los padres de Nicola. Sólo un par de días para curar sus heridas, pero todo empeorará, cuando una malicia furtiva se convierten en pura locura. Lo que iba a ser un viaje tranquilo se deslizará repentinamente en una pesadilla mortal

In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?

Fatma is kidnapped several times by a wild man because she cannot be persuaded to marry. A third attempt at forced submission ends tragically for both, due to the young girl's fatal rebellion.

A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a source of joy and hope for thirsty passersby, is now rarely used. No longer able to find comfort in his memories, he turns all his photographs to face the walls.

A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.

Two men are stranded at the bottom of a well. One, with a serious injury to his head, thinks his has fallen in is own back garden in present-day Britain. But the other tells him they are really prisoners in a medieval dungeon. Who is right, and where are they really?

An injured woman trapped in a deep well must outsmart a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a terrifying ordeal.

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, ‘that without a thing changing, everything is different.’ The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The justness of the agreement leads us to believe it, because everything plays equally at being a sign. That’s the arrangement of the elements. It’s an act of faith. La vallée close is just this: elements treated above all as if in a documentary that, without being changed, portray the story and reveal between them the elements of fiction. But above all seen as they are, insignificant. And then in the relations they set up, they can satisfy our desire for a story. -- Rousseau

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).

A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including a suicide attempt by his wife.

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.

Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle.
 H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...

Jay De Feo started painting THE WHITE ROSE in 1957. When the unfinished painting was removed eight years later it weighed over 2300 pounds.

Which image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself.

Akiko is the heiress of a lumber business family that spans many generations. She married Hiroshi, a company man, and was leading a plain and happy life. But dark clouds overcast Akiko’s happy life when Hiroshi starts an affair with Michiyo, an underclassman from the school Akiko attended. Then Shinji, who used to work in the family lumber business, enters her life the turmoil of men-women relationships becomes tempestuous.

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as he drifts into revolutionary circles. Her access through her trade grants her greater access which she uses to aid her revolutionary lover with tragic results.

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never understand … I have made a film out of your absence.

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.

Seneca’s Day is set in the year 1989, the final period of the Soviet era in Lithuania. Eighteen-year old buddies establish the Seneca’s Fellowship with the motto “Live each day as if it was your last”. A love triangle breaks up the fellowship right at the time the nation experiences an exceptional sense of community via Baltic Chain.Twenty-five years later, the main character who at first glance appears to be accompanied by good luck, is disillusioned with himself. He has betrayed the ideals of his youth and become a cold observer of life.

A performance artist works tirelessly to fulfill her dream of adopting Sudanese twins, placing her marriage and career at risk in this documentary.

A widowed English heroine (Malù) recalls her life, from marriage to an affair with the gamekeeper.

Filmmaker Jarreth Merz directs this eye-opening documentary about the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, chronicling the start-to-finish drama of campaigning in a nation that's long served as a measure of the continent's political stability.

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life.

An examination of poverty and violence and the influence it has on two boys who live in a slum.

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War: "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.