Richard Horowitz

Películas

Goldfishes
Music
Hayat is released after serving a long prison sentence. She returns to her hometown in northern Morocco, where she finds herself faced with a brother who refuses to welcome her for fear of shame. Hayat merely wishes to see her son so she can explain the truth to him. She meets Amal, who works in a fruit factory and takes care of Houda, her sister who is two years her junior and suffers from a severe disability. The courage and strength of these three women drives them forward in the face of exclusion, exploitation and marginalization.
School of Hope
Music
In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end. Hardly a blade of grass can be seen, and families travel miles on foot to get water from a muddy hole in the ground. Yet the children willingly ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles across rocks to a "school of hope" built of clay. Following both the students and the teachers in the Oulad Boukais Tribe's community school for over three years, SCHOOL OF HOPE shows students Mohamed, Miloud, Fatima, and their classmates, responding with childish glee to the school's altruistic young teacher, Mohamed. Each child faces individual obstacles - supporting their aging parents; avoiding restrictions from relatives based on traditional gender roles - while their young teacher makes do in a house with no electricity or water.
House in the Fields
Original Music Composer
In a village in the High Atlas Mountains, at the crossroad between tradition and change, two sisters experience the last seasons of childhood.
Kajarya
Music
Set in the present times against two backdrops, New Delhi with its shining buildings and apparent cosmopolitan veneer thinly veils an underbelly of crimes against women and corruption at all levels. And a small village just 80 kilometers from New Delhi that is stuck in a time warp. Kajarya a woman in her early thirties has a strange but important place in the village social structure; she murders unwanted girl infants in the garb of religion. Meera is a rookie reporter.
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
Self
The American composer and author Paul Bowles was a man with a great deal of charisma and influence. When he moved to Tangier, Morocco, in 1949, half the world followed him to the enigmatic city. His marriage with author Jane Bowles was a loving relationship of opposites, even though both were homosexual. Based on exclusive interviews with Bowles shortly before his death interwoven with anecdotes recounted by his friends and co-workers, the film portrays a daring and visionary life as well as a relationship shaped by an interdependency that encompassed much more than sexuality.
El Impacto mortal
Music
Una pareja se encuentra de vacaciones en Marruecos, cuando de repente tienen un accidente en mitad del desierto. De esta forma se encontrarán heridos y sin ningún lugar donde hospedarse en busca de alguien que les ayude. Pronto descubrirán que lo que les está sucediendo no es casualidad y se unirán a un grupo de supervivientes.
Love in the Medina
Music
In the Medina of Casablanca, Thami, a young man from a conservative family with a lineage of honourable Koranic lawyers, incenses his father as he decides to enter the profession of butchery. Whilst handling the meats, he soon discovers another taboo passion: women and love. “Love in the Medina” is about a journey of initiation, a quest for freedom and Thami’s revolution of romance in ever-changing Morocco.
Casanegra
Music
A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their struggle in the big city.
Tobruk
Music
It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans, during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiri Pospichal, eighteen years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death.
Un domingo cualquiera
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Cuatro años antes, los Tiburones de Miami, dirigidos por el entrenador D'Amato, habían ganado dos campeonatos consecutivos, pero ahora sólo consiguen acumular derrotas. Además, el público escasea y los antiguos ídolos están en el ocaso de sus carreras, particularmente Jack "Cap" Rooney, que a sus 39 años se aferra desesperadamente a lo poco que le queda como jugador profesional. Por otra parte, son frecuentes los conflictos con Christina Pagniacci, la joven presidenta y propietaria del equipo. @fer__mero
Drowning on Dry Land
Music
A taxi driver (Naveen Andrews) picks up a fare (Barbara Hershey) in Manhattan. She offers the driver a large sum to drive her to the desert. While the pair drive across the country, the woman tries various strategies to lure the driver into conversation. Despite his reticence, the pair begins a tumultuous and steamy relationship.
Tres estaciones
Original Music Composer
Un poeta leproso, su joven ayudante recogedora de flores de loto, una ambiciosa prostituta, un ciclotaxista enamorado de ésta, un joven de la calle obligado a sobrevivir y un soldado en busca de la hija que abandonó durante la guerra entrecruzan sus vidas en busca de amor y consuelo en un Vietnam cambiante.
Spanish Fly
Coyote
Zoe (Daphna Kastner), joven escritora norteamericana, llega a Madrid para realizar una serie de entrevistas con las que pretende documentar un libro sobre el machismo. Por medio de un anuncio en el periódico local contrata los servicios de Antonio (Toni Cantó), un intérprete. La relación empieza mal, pero se complica aún más cuando resulta que el joven español tiene ideas propias sobre el proyecto de Zoe. Entre los dos existe una atracción innegable que da mucha energía a sus peleas. Ella es una joven que al parecer tiene serios problemas con casi todos los hombres. Por otra parte, él es un latino típico que piensa que las mujeres existen para consumirlas con el máximo gusto y el mínimo compromiso. Esta actitud le convierte en el colaborador menos adecuado para el proyecto de Zoe...
Broken trust
Music
Juez Nash es muy apreciada por su posición y las decisiones en la sala del tribunal. Él es abordado por un agente especial de un grupo de trabajo del gobierno que investiga los jueces y abogados corruptos, y le pide que participe en una operación.
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
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Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
The Tower
Music
A mix-up with a security card causes a malevolent building to try and kill an employee on his first day at work.
L'Atlantide
Music
A mythical land who must be discover. Or invented. In an impressive library, two old men. One is a great Polish archaeologist at the end of his work. The second- his best friend. They are masters of a substantial slice of human history: legendary Atlantis. It is refuge and masterpiece, propriety and treasure.
La thune
Music
Kamel, a young Arab raised in Paris, wants to become rich. He meets Edwige, a bourgeois girl, whose father disapproves of him as Edwige's boyfriend.