The Birth of Love (1993)

Lorenzo is a young man who has just returned to Salamanca (Spain) from England, where he fell in love with Berta, a girl daughter of exiled parents who have never seen Spain. Lorenzo tries through some beautiful letters that she understands how is the world where her parents once lived.

A film woven around the idea that between early cinema and avant-garde film exists a connection.

A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.

Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When they decide to lean over the cliffs of the coast to observe the wild dance of the turbulent waves down below, an unexpected event tragically happens.

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. This first volume looks at the first three letters in Grandma's encyclopaedia: A for 'Automobile', B for 'Ballon', and C for 'Chemin de fer'.

Marquês Sévéro, parisiense rico e preguiçoso, quer se divorciar para poder casar com sua afilhada Denise. Mas a própria Denise ama André Berval, engenheiro contratado pelo marquês. Cheio de ciúmes, o Marquês envia André às Antilhas, para prospectar terras que acaba de adquirir. Ele promete a André que pode se casar com Denise se tiver sucesso nos trópicos, mas depois escreve para Alvarez, seu empresário no local, pedindo-lhe que impeça André de voltar para a França. Alvarez cria ódio instantâneo por André quando o engenheiro impede Alvarez de estuprar Papitou, uma bela garota nativa. Papitou se torna dedicada a André e o protege contra os esquemas de Alvarez. Mas ela mesma enfrenta uma crise ao saber que André planeja se casar com Denise.

Divided into three sections, Bill Morrison's The Highwater Trilogy examines our relationship to the threat of natural disaster by combining archival footage of icebergs, hurricanes, and floods with a soundtrack by David Lang and Michael Gordon.

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.

Mondo, a young orphaned gypsy, finds himself in France, where he scouts out potential foster families, evades the police and meets an assortment of eccentric people. In his travels, Mondo first encounters a magician who takes on the boy as an assistant. Then he moves on again, eventually befriending Dadi, a street-smart vagrant, and Giordan, a wise fisherman. All the while, the boy keeps an eye out for would-be parents.

Serene Velocity stares down the center of an empty institutional hallway while shifting the focal length of a stationary zoom lens, transforming the basement corridor into a nexus of visual and conceptual energy.

Robert Frank revolucionou a fotografia e o cinema independente, fosse a retratar banqueiros, estrelas de rock ou mineiros. O filme mostra-nos um artista em ação, testemunha de uma era, recordando Jack Kerouac e Allen Ginsberg, com quem filmou a Beat Generation.

Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from the period and voice-over testimonies of various people.

This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science allows man to do things he never would have been able to do without, for good or bad. Politicians are either behind the scenes manipulating those scientists or are using that science for their own goals, primarily in the space race. Everyday items and people are projected upwards - many in the form of rockets - followed by iconic structures, such as the Empire State Building, the US Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin, being rocketed skyward as visual representations of that race into space.

Werner Schroeter mixes Stravinsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Maria Callas and Janis Joplin in this delirious biography of the doomed nineteenth-century mezzo-soprano.

Majka "Tagarela" é uma rapariga a entrer na adolescência. Nasceu com uma deficiência menor. Enquanto a sua mãe continua a repreendê-la pela forma como ela anda, os colegas zombam dela e chamam-lhe "pato". Ao longo de um primeiro caso de amor inocente e uma amizade secreta, ela recebe pouca compreensão de seus pais e muita malícia de seus colegas de escola. Majka encontra refúgio junto da sua avó e no seu próprio mundo de fantasia. O realizador Peter Solan fez um retrato sensível de uma estudante de 12 anos de idade. A linguagem cinematográfica eloquente fala para tanto para as crianças como para o público adulto.

A portrait of several characters of Spanish culture who were very popular at another time, but who were completely forgotten in their old age. All of them show the reality of abandonment and the decay of oblivion. They really are broken toys.

Documentary about the murderer José Luis Cerveto.