Interview with the Earth (2008)

Alentejo, Sul de Portugal. Dezenas de grupos amadores reúnem-se regularmente para ensaiar antigos cantos polifónicos e para improvisar modas sobre o tempo presente. Isto é o cante. Nascido nas tabernas e nos campos, o cante transmitiu-se ao longo de várias gerações. Nas últimas décadas, com a diáspora alentejana, novos grupos surgiram na periferia de Lisboa e em diversos países de emigração. Muitos deles formados por adolescentes e crianças, provando que o cante está vivo e é o traço identitário de toda uma população.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

The lives of two women intersect.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

Worn-down pavements, broken paving stones. Trees that jut out of the concrete, casting shadows on to crumbling façades. The centre of Tbilisi in the summer of 2013. Glimpses of side and main streets, over railings and under balconies, of an architectural cacophony. The voiceover spoken by Natja Brunckhorst reflects on the nature of streets and public spaces.

Ela tem dezenove anos, o nome dela é Rita. Ela trabalha na perfumaria do shopping. Hoje ela vai se casar. Ela vai ao cabeleireiro. Terremoto. Ela de repente decide cortar o cabelo curto. Paulo, seu noivo, está esperando na prefeitura.

A Cidade dos Mortos, no Cairo, é a maior necrópole do mundo. Um milhão de pessoas vivem dentro do cemitério – em casas tumulares ou nos edifícios que cresceram em redor. Dentro do cemitério há de tudo: padarias, cafés, escolas para as crianças, teatros de fantoches... A Cidade dos Mortos estende-se por mais de dez quilómetros ao longo de uma auto-estrada, mas não deixa de ser uma aldeia, com mães à caça de um bom partido para as filhas, rapazes a correr atrás das raparigas, disputas entre vizinhos. Preparado e rodado ao longo de cinco anos (2004-2009), este filme procura dar a ver a alma invisível do cemitério.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Em 2008, no limiar da crise económica que se instalou depois, num arquipélago atlântico ao largo de África ocidental, a utilização intensiva de areia para construção de hotéis e resorts ameaça a existência das praias locais — a principal fonte de atração da florescente indústria turística. Ali ao lado, numa capital costeira em pleno deserto do Sara, os homens de negócios agitam-se com a possibilidade de exportar o seu recurso mais abundante. Inicia-se então um triângulo comercial que se completa com a exploração de brita vulcânica e com a transferência maciça de solo de um lugar ao outro, através do oceano.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Bafiokadié and his sister Téné leave their village in Africa to find their lost blue bird before the day is over, but they find much more along the way. Loosely based on a stage play by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

"[...] Looking back, I now feel that I understand that the film was my response to the two entities, Man and Nature competing for space in the local vicinity where I lived, ergo layers of images and sounds compete for attention in the film. Where fields used to be, they were being replaced with factories, power stations, and wind farms. My film is an irresolution. Are any of these things beneficial enough to be warranted? Isn't it all a folly? I don't know. It is not a negative film, nor a positive one. Just a comment. A comment that my subconscious commanded me to make; inspired by the locations that I passed... and the locations that have passed. At the end of the film, a human hand reaches out, as if trying to find a resolution, a reason for anything and everything - but everything, even the nature seems so fake now, like trying to feel the flesh of a mere projection..." - Scott Barley