The Turning Turtle (2021)

Os minimalistas reformularam essa frase para criar um senso de urgência para a cultura de consumo de hoje: agora é a hora de menos.

No século VIII, durante a dinastia Tiang, Yinniang (Shu Qi) é uma assassina profissional, treinada com os melhores mestres. Ela é encarregada de matar um homem do governo, mas não consegue cumprir a tarefa quando o vê segurando um bebê recém-nascido. Punida por sua covardia, ela recebe a tarefa mais difícil de sua vida: matar o próprio primo, por quem é apaixonada, e com quem deveria se casar desde a adolescência. Yinniang tem que se confrontar ao passado para cumprir as ordens de sua mestra.

Turim, 3 de Janeiro de 1889. O filósofo Friedrich Nietzsche sai de casa. Ali perto um camponês luta com a teimosia do seu cavalo, que se recusa a obedecer. O homem perde a paciência e começa a chicotear o animal. Nietzsche aproxima-se e tenta impedir a brutalidade dos golpes com o seu próprio corpo. Naquele momento perde os sentidos e é levado para casa onde permanece em silêncio por dois dias. A partir daquele trágico evento Nietzsche nunca mais recuperará a razão, ficando aos cuidados da sua mãe e irmãs até ao dia da sua morte, a 25 de Agosto de 1900. Partindo deste evento, o filme tenta recriar o percurso do camponês, da sua filha, do velho cavalo doente e a sua existência miserável.

Baseado em uma história verídica sobre um conflito entre duas gangues de jovens, a namorada de um garoto de 14 anos entra em conflito com o chefe de uma gangue por uma razão pouco clara, até que finalmente o conflito atinge um clímax violento.

Pessoas que acreditam que bens materiais não trazem felicidade são entrevistadas neste documentário que aborda a questão: menos é mais?

Considerado como a obra-prima de Akerman, traz a atriz Delphine Seyrig no papel de Jeanne Dielman, uma jovem viúva que vive com seu filho Sylvain seguindo uma ordem imutável: à tarde, enquanto seu filho está na escola, ela cuida do apartamento e recebe os clientes.

Love and admiration in 16mm. The fusion a beauty that exists throughout three generations; my three Venus.

Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Make-up and perfume can no longer conceal his quickly decomposing body. Dismayed, he decides to withdraw from the world, whilst forming an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard.

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.

While navigating life with his hyper-protective mother along the enigmatic Outer Banks of North Carolina's coast (site of the first attempted English settlement in the New World), conflicted teen Loren learns of his expecting girlfriend's ambivalence toward him. After a near tragic accident, he must learn to assemble the broken pieces into a stronger, wiser form and approach a more worldly consciousness. A searchlight cast upon the earliest traces of America and the mystery of settlers vanished, Lost Colony scans a once virgin watershed for signs of life.

Um avião passa sobre uma pequena ilha do Golfo Persa, no Irã e lança uma caixa, próxima ao "posto" de guarda de dois jovens soldados. É dia de eleição, na caixa estão os materiais para os votos e é missão de um deles acompanhar um agente do governo responsável por recolher os votos dos habitantes da ilha. O guarda do turno prepara seu jipe, mas se assusta ao perceber que o agente do governo é na verdade uma mulher. A contragosto, os dois passarão o dia a recolher os votos, e conhecerão juntos um pouco mais da vida na ilha.

Simon is an eight-year-old boy who seems to have everything from life. He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet unhappy. He senses that there’s something wrong with his life and this leads him to wander off thanks to his fervid imagination. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind since he isn’t fond of it. That’s why the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping for a long time suddenly comes to the surface and it is feared that the worst might happen soon. The expectation for the stroke of midnight on the night before Christmas is transformed into reality for everyone on the eve of something truly different. Something terrible that might happen.

Wendell is trying to make peace with his earthly deterioration in the face of late-stage cancer. His son Josh is fighting it, fleeing it, denying it. After a five year estrangement, father and son are now thrown together in a remote cabin enveloped in the vibrant, buzzing, crawling redwood forest of Northern California. As Wendell forgives himself of his own inadequacies, Josh releases years of pain and anger, borne from living under the rigid principles of his father, a renowned Buddhist teacher who for decades pretended to be anything but the deeply flawed, selfish man he really was....but is he still? Human connection, obligation, illusion, enlightenment, love and fear -- it's all up for grabs in this meditative, probing, tender story of inevitability.

Caucho is an experimental drama which tells the story of three artists: а theater director (Arsen Grigoryan),an actress (Lucie Abdalyan) and an actor (Manvel Khachatryan) who are engaged in staging the play "The Ping-Pong Players" by William Saroyan. They decide to speak only using the dialogues from the performance before the first night of the play. The game will be over if any of them breaks the rules.

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

On the cold outskirts of town, something is about to happen. In our own way we are all waiting for something to happen.

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents.