L'est de la brúixola (2005)

A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish director and scriptwriter José Luis Garci, who returns to his childhood and recovers a lost paradise.

One of three films commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2006. It is a short film based on Beauty and an Airplane, a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ratanaruang's film tells the story of a man (Ananda Everingham) who falls in love with a woman (Khemapsom Sirisukha) he sees at the check-in counter of an airport. Most of the film takes place in the sleek blackened interior of the plane's cabin -- the camera panning between the two seats, lighting now one, now the other of the occupants. The two passengers never exchange a word, title cards occasionally allowing us to know what the man is thinking. Those familiar only with his work on Dumplings or Wong Kar-wai's films might be surprised at cinematographer Christopher Doyle's uncustomary restraint. Christopher Doyle doubles as both taxi driver and captain in the film.

In a Japanese suburb, the film follows two children aged about 11 as they play, in their adventures and imagination. Debutante Shibutani manages beautifully to capture the mood of play in childhood, as a result of which the abuse and selfishness of their parents hits home even harder.

감독의 싸인과 함께 카메라가 돌아가면, 하얀과 남자 배우의 정사장면이 시작된다. 정적 속에서 들리는 하얀과 남자 배우의 신음소리. 하지만 얼마 지나지 않아, 뷰파인더에서 눈을 뗀 촬영 기사는 팬티가 보인다고 감독에게 말한다. 컷! 짧은 정적이 깨지고 모든 스탭들의 시선은 그녀가 입고 있는 살색 팬티에 고정된다. 하얀은 TV 스타 K양과 닮았다는 것 때문에, 짧은 시간에 에로 비디오계의 슈퍼 스타가 된다. 그것을 증명이라도 하듯, 어떤 팬은 www.whitelover.com 이란 홈페이지를 그녀에게 헌정하기도 했다. 하지만 그녀와 내연관계에 있는 에로 비디오 회사의 간부로 인해 그녀의 유명세는 오래가지 않는다. 그녀와의 정사를 카메라에 담은 간부가, 그것을 K양 몰래 카메라로 속여 인터넷에 올린 것이다. 에로 연기에 환멸을 느낀 하얀은 그 간부를 명예훼손으로 고소하고, 더 이상 옷을 벗지 않겠다는 선언과 함께 에로 비디오계를 떠난다. 그런 그녀에게 뜻밖의 향운이 찾아왔다. 주목받는 충무로 예술영화 의 조연 배우로 캐스팅된 것이다. 하지만 햐얀이 출연한 첫날, 예기치 않았던 문제들이 하니씩 그녀에게 발생하기 시작한다.

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

A woman asks the hospital in which her father is due to stomach cancer to be allowed to return home to celebrate the New Year with his family. Part of the 2002 'Jeonju Digital Project'.

In suburban Tokyo, commuters find themselves waiting every day with the same group of strangers for the same seat on the same train. Perhaps over 1000 days never knowing who they are, what their lives are like, where they live, who they love. Until one day, things change.

A young man from Barcelona (Marc) arrives to Venice and confronts his father (Paco), who has not seen since he was two years old. This sudden encounter with his forgotten son both shocks and pleases Paco. Marc, filled with long repressed resentments, discovers in Paco a welcoming individual. The emotions seem to move towards a feeling of connection and understanding between father and son. But Paco's semi-lies, his complex and opaque past, his unclear present, quickly transforms the encounter into a muddy pool of emotional uncertaintie.

서른을 눈앞에 둔 선우는 세상에 불만이 가득한 무명의 시인이다. 그는 자신의 울분을 술로 달래는데 술에 취해 자주 사고를 친다. 이런 그의 모습을 보고 여자친구인 유나는 작별을 고하는데, 선우는 그런 현실을 인정할 수 없다. 어떻게든 그녀의 마음을 돌리기 위해 애를 써보지만 그녀는 점점 멀어져가고, 절친 선배 '승규'가 좋아하는 연상의 여인 '순애'는 알바까지 주면서 자꾸만 그에게 작업을 걸어온다. 그러던 어느 날, 술김에 순애의 집에서 하룻밤을 보내게 된 선우. 그의 인생이 제대로 꼬이기 시작한다. 헤어졌다 만나기를 반복하는 주인공의 모습은 인정욕구, 충동, 삼류 시인의 기질을 제대로 보여준다. 그의 곤경은 이미 예정된 길이고 (시인이 아닌가!), 우리는 이 길을 때로는 코믹하게, 때로는 손가락질하며 지켜본다. 곤경이란 무엇인가? 그것은 예고된 파국인 동시에 구원받고자 하는 인간의 소망이다. 이 역설적인 상황은 근래에 보기 드문 코미디 영화를 제대로 보여준다.

Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.

The beautiful Awa, from a poor background, decides to marry for money rather than love and ends up with the much older Karim. While married, she continues to love the much younger Bouba. On the happy occasion of Awa’s birthday, a macabre plan is to be set in motion.

Throughout the streets of Huelva, a man with his guitar has been disambiguating for years, day and night he goes out into the streets to make a living asking for money in bars and terraces. His guitar almost never has the six strings, his hands are dirty, his mind long ago could not stand the life that he had to live, and he continues as he can stuck to that guitar with which he expresses himself continuously, indefatigable. That vagabond, an omnipresent street artist, is the "Niño Miguel", considered by many to be the best guitarist in the history of flamenco, a genius who revolutionized the guitar with only two records in the 70s, a source of inspiration for all other guitarists... a guitarist of guitarists, a living legend, a mystery, a misunderstood genius, excluded from society: The shadow of the strings.

Documentary based on the figure of Manuel Agujetas (Manuel de los Santos Pastor 1939-2015), mythical cantaor and one of the last representatives of the Flamenco de Jerez school. Essential figure of flamenco.

Documentary about the marginal neighborhood 'Las tres mil viviendas', in Seville.

A broker tries to get rich by a scam, but the police discover his intentions so he becomes a fugitive who runs aimlessly until he reachs a battlefield. Part of the 2002 'Jeonju Digital Project'.

Fu Chu is one of the most important and strict prisons in Japan, where they have more than 2,000 people living together. In addition, it is the one that has the greater number of foreigners. Through the testimony of two French prisoners we know first hand how the inmates of Japanese prisons live behind bars. Fu Chu is known worldwide because many ex-convicts have sued the Japanese State for the treatment received during their incarceration. Amnesty International has been interested in this problem and has denounced the methods used to consider that they violate Human Rights. In this documentary the cameras enter for the first time in the premises of the prison and show how is the strict regime of this institution.

Japan has the world record for sexual abstinence, but the pornographic industry is very lucrative. The documentary reveals how the number of singles has doubled, and how older couples do not have sex. According to the National Institute of Japanese Sexology, "sexless" are those who have sexual intercourse with a frequency lower than once a month.