Elina Löwensohn

Num futuro próximo dominado por inteligências artificias, as emoções humanas tornaram-se uma ameaça. Para se livrar deles, Gabrielle deve purificar seu DNA voltando às suas vidas passadas. Lá, ela reencontra Louis, seu grande amor, junto de um grande pressentimento que uma grande catástrofe está a caminho.

Four characters introduce themselves as the film’s actresses and offer to guide you through the ghostly sets and hellish creatures that populate the set. By choosing one of them, you are drawn into the heart of the fantasies, the buried desires and the impulses of the actress, who makes you relive her last shooting until her disappearance.

Octavia Foss wants to stage a female version of Conan the Barbarian in the theater. She makes a pact with a dog-headed demon to achieve her goals.

Road trips through Los Angeles, famous verses in the Poetry Lounge and love in times of the pandemic: Rendezvous with an old flame, fourty years later. After Jaurès (2012), Vincent Dieutre presents another tender autofictional piece in the Forum.

Unused footage of Bertrand Mandico's film "After Blue (Dirty Paradise)," set to new music by Pierre Desprats.

Fragmented memories of a voyeur in 3 chapters: "I grew up" but I’m still falling. "The stalker" who loses his footing. "Memory" and regression.

Fragmented memories of a voyeur in 3 chapters: "I grew up" but I’m still falling. "The stalker" who loses his footing. "Memory" and regression.

Fragmented memories of a voyeur in 3 chapters: "I grew up" but I’m still falling. "The stalker" who loses his footing. "Memory" and regression.

Fragmented memories of a voyeur in 3 chapters: "I grew up" but I’m still falling. "The stalker" who loses his footing. "Memory" and regression.

Fragmented memories of a voyeur in 3 chapters: "I grew up" but I’m still falling. "The stalker" who loses his footing. "Memory" and regression.

A man is dreaming of a city. Unless the city is dreaming of him.

On After Blue, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna, a hairdresser and her teenage daughter hunt a notorious killer.

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and her photographer. Together, they will play martyr and demiurge. They will attempt to achieve grace in a world of moving surfaces.

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and her photographer. Together, they will play martyr and demiurge. They will attempt to achieve grace in a world of moving surfaces.

Nearly 3 hours of LGBTQ and Coming-of-Age short films and music videos await you in the debut of Altered Innocence’s cinematic mixtape supreme! Films from established auteurs like Peter Strickland, Cam Archer, João Nicolau, and Yann Gonzalez join fresh new voices such as Alexis Langlois, Shaun Hughes, Caroline Poggi, and Jonathan Vinel. Cruising, dancing, naked wrestling, trans terrorism, first love, bullies, femme fatales, band practice, and more is in store! The short films are: After School Knife Fight (2017); Bunny (2018); Doors Cut Down [En malas compañías] (2000); Gabber Lover (2016); Wild Haggis [Gambozinos] (2013); GUO4 (2019); Hunt [Jakt] (2018); Terror, Sisters! [De la terreur, mes sœurs!] (2019). The music videos are: 'Les vacances continuent' by Perez (2015); 'Niemand' by Kompromat (2019); 'Our Time' by Imperial Teen (2002).

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.

Louis II de Barrière has been petrified in the ice since the dawn of time. We find him in a forest, luckily he is alive ! Three witch sisters try to defrost it and unravel its musical mystery. We are propelled with them in a colorful and surreal fairy tale.

A heroic-fantasy musical.

An epileptic director trying to make a film about the life of famed Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn discovers that her real-life subject bears little resemblance to the star she idolized.

Paris, verão de 1979. Anne é produtora de pornografia gay barata. Quando Lois, sua editora e companheira, a deixa, ela tenta recuperá-la, fazendo um filme mais ambicioso com o extravagante Archibald.

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actrice, the other a director, Apocalypse and Joy, are on the verge of concluding their love affair.

Jacques, grande repórter de um jornal francês, recebe um misterioso telefonema do Vaticano. Em um pequeno vilarejo no sudeste da França, uma jovem de 18 anos afirma ter visto a aparição da Virgem Maria. Os rumores logo se espalham, e o fenômeno toma tal dimensão que milhares de peregrinos vão se reunir no local das supostas aparições. Jacques, que não tem nada a ver com esse mundo, aceita fazer parte de uma comissão de investigação encarregada de esclarecer esses eventos.

Todo verão, Luce, uma excêntrica pintora com seus 50 anos, gasta seu tempo em um pequeno e isolado município, que está em ruínas no sul da França, rodeado por convidados. Este verão em particular, os seus convidados são Max Bernier (uma antiga paixão e um autor alcoólatra), seu amante atual (um advogado chamado Bisorgueil), e três amigos dele que ela ainda não conhece: Rhino, Gros e Alex. Depois de terminar as suas compras na cidade, estes três incógnitas atacam um caminhão blindado e fogem com 250 kg de ouro. Eles, então, voltam para a casa de Luce, contando com ela para ocultá-los até o fim do verão…

Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

Once upon a time there was Louise and her friend, the magician. But his last trick left a bitter taste in her mouth. He disappeared in a curtain of smoke… never to appear again. This is too much for the young woman. Devastated by endless grief, Louise is sent to a psychiatric asylum, resigned to the idea that she will swallow pills till the end of her days. Yet nine months later she gives birth to a child who is likely to have a big problem for his future class pictures, since he’s invisible. But Louise doesn’t care. He’s her angel and, wanting to protect him from this cruel world, she decides to keep his existence a secret. Years later, Louise’s angel has grown up. He even managed to find a girlfriend; Madeleine. The two become inseparable, for Madeleine never judges him. And for good reason: she’s blind.

Short film about female ecstasy.

Short film about female ecstasy.

In Provence, a Summer evening. Malo is 26, heartbroken, and still feeling the euphoria of three days on a motorcycle from Brest. On the top of a hill where the view goes on and on and the fragrances of plants cast a spell, he meets a septuagenarian with an irresistible charm. A strong mistral is forecast, but first there is an invitation.

Uma família, passando por dificuldades financeiras, vende sua filha para o demônio. Sua pureza a protege, mas não impede que ele lhe impute um grande castigo: tenha as suas mãos amputadas.

A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by Swiss Nazis.

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.

The new film from Lebanese director Danielle Arbid follows a young Arab immigrant in Paris, whose encounters with three men reveal different facets of her new country, and of herself.

Expulsa de casa após ter engravidado misteriosamente, uma curandeira decidida a limpar o nome cruza-se com uma mulher que anseia pelo mesmo milagre.

Françoise returns to her native Brittany to teach at her alma mater to find that the past of this very particular place still exerts an inexorable pull. A rapturous ensemble piece about the tricks of time and memory, Suite Armoricaine is a work of grand themes and small, surprising details, bursting with ideas and emotion.

Um submarino em perigo, um lenhador que aparece misteriosamente para a tripulação – não era ele que estava nas florestas escuras de Holstein-Schleswig resgatando a bela Margot das garras dos lobos vermelhos? Um neurocirurgião que perfura profundamente o cérebro de um paciente maníaco; um assassino que finge ser a vítima de suas próprias mortes; uma jovem traumatizada, em algum lugar entre Berlim e Bogotá; esqueletos sedutores, zeppelins colidindo, e um banho quente, que parece ser o princípio de tudo.

On a Scottish island, a depressive police investigates the disappearance of a girl. The mournful mother is responsible for the disappearance of the inhabitants of the island.

According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.

According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.

Ablou is a young man prisoner of a dream and a park. He meets strange characters who try to lock him up a little more in this long sleep.

Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed "Notre-Dame des Hormones"

Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed "Notre-Dame des Hormones"

A boobs flasher tells us, a boobs flasher lets us see.

In a world in decay, a woman collects her dead animals and restores them to life by filming them images by image.

From its epic conception to its film death, the fantasized and fictitious portrait of the film-maker Walerian Borowczyk : Boro-in-the-box discovers a cruel and obscene world, crosses commonplace and colorful adventures, from Poland to Paris, caressing erotic birds and organic cameras in a phantasmagorical alphabet primer.

A behind the scenes look at Bertrand Mandico's The Wild Boys, captured by actress Elina Löwensohn on her personal Super 8 camera.

A behind the scenes look at Bertrand Mandico's The Wild Boys, captured by actress Elina Löwensohn on her personal Super 8 camera.

Arnarstrapi, Islândia. Em um cabaré, uma mestre de cerimônias realiza um ato de coloscopia esotérica com uma estranha câmera orgânica.

Arnarstrapi, Islândia. Em um cabaré, uma mestre de cerimônias realiza um ato de coloscopia esotérica com uma estranha câmera orgânica.

An actress is confronted with her inner demons.

The old Salammbo lives alone on a northern island, in total destitution. Haunted by her memories, Salammbo is mistreated by the phantom of her youth, which sometimes taunts, sometimes bends her back so that she no longer sees the blue of the sky.

Filme de TV mostra os julgamentos de Nuremberg, através dos personagens de Pierre Bernard, procurador-adjunto da delegação francesa, e como membro da equipe Robert Jackson, e Nina, uma jovem polonesa. Bernard tem que cuidar da parte relativa aos judeus da França na carga francês; Nina é um dos tradutores da prova e também o intérprete da delegação russa da Coroa.

Adèle, professora, vive com a recordação do falecido marido. Certo dia, entra para a sua turma Kaniousha, jovem refugiada albanesa. A criança é difícil e sua atitude rebelde desanima Adèle.

Um casal, Romeu e Julieta. Uma criança, Adam. Um combate, uma doença. E sobretudo, uma grande história de amor, a deles.

Paris, 1817. Diante do corpo de Saartjie Baartman (Yahima Torres), o anatomista Georges Cuvier (François Marthouret) diz que jamais tinha visto uma cabeça humana tão parecida com a dos macacos. Uma plateia composta por cientistas aplaude a constatação. Sete anos antes, Saartjie deixa a África do Sul como escrava de Hendrick Caezar (Andre Jacobs), sendo obrigada a se exibir em festas de aberrações de Londres. Exibido no Festival Varilux de Cinema Francês 2011

You have gone, Vasco, you wanted to go far away. But we kept you back, with concrete and kisses, and you tasted the blood of whales. But it was not enough, you wanted to go further, towards the horizon that fascinated you so much. But how far will you go, Vasco?

Christine é uma mulher solitária, quase totalmente deficiente e faz uma viagem para Lourdes, local icônico de peregrinação nas montanhas dos Pireneus, que acaba transformando sua vida. Não que ela acredite em milagres – porém essa é a única maneira onde ela poderia encontrar uma saída.

Romaine, a tall thirty-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living for several years with her boyfriend Justin. When, overnight, the latter drags her after him to Canada in order to start a new life, she blows smoke. Not only does she hate surprises but she is scared to death of taking the plane. Once in Montréal Airport, she dumps Justin after confessing to him things he would rather not have heard. Her Far North adventures can start...

Oana is working. I am watching her. Tonight, the very last file will be closed. She does not want to translate the words of others anymore. She thinks that tomorrow she will start writing her own words. But she will not, I know that…

Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), a film director, is conducting research for his latest film, and asks a funeral director if he can stay back at his funeral parlour after the close of business. Bertrand cannot resist getting into a coffin, and accidentally knocks the lid down, locking himself in the coffin.

A man returning from a tour of duty is mistaken for his brother by debt-collecting gangsters, while the brother goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with a loose-cannon convict.

Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand of a global 911 cover up. In this contemporary take on film noir. When Tom is implicated in the murder of his friend and employee, he is forced to unravel Kasia's complex web of lies. As it turns out, Kasia possesses the smoking gun that proves the identities and methods of the real architects of 911, and Tom Flynn is willing to die to expose the truth. Written by Dave Herman

A man besieges the hotel room where the woman he loves has taken refuge.

Laura adota um bebê tailandês e depois de alguns anos começa a sentir alguma coisa diferente na criança. Após um acidente que o deixa em coma, Laura decide investigar a origem do menino e encontra muitas histórias estranhas e sobrenaturais.

Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.

Há pessoas que são diferentes. E tudo o que desejam é serem iguais aos outros, misturarem-se deliciosamente na multidão. Há quem passe o resto da vida lutando para conseguir isso, negando ou tentando abafar essa diferença. Outros assumem-na e dessa forma elevam-se, conseguindo assim um lugar… no coração.

A young woman prepares a recipe for American-style lobster, which calls for cutting the live lobster into pieces, before throwing it, still alive, into boiling oil. Alone in her kitchen, faced with the two lobsters that are still moving, she tries to kill them as cleanly as possible.

Dahlia Williams pretende recomeçar sua vida e se muda para um novo apartamento. Ela quer se dedicar à filha Ceci, mas a separação se transforma em uma complicada batalha pela custódia da criança. Para piorar a situação, mãe e filha testemunham barulhos misteriosos, vazamentos constantes de uma água escura e ocorrências inexplicáveis no novo apartamento. Acreditando ser vítima de um assustador jogo mental, Dahlia tenta juntar as peças do enigma para entender o que está acontecendo.

Ziggy is a freedom loving Parisian often in debts and usually misunderstood by fellow citizens. Though there's a pretty unique karma he has it when seducing girls due to his carelessness. But on the contrary all the girls disappear after moments spending with him, realizing he's still waiting for "Coppola" to come back to Paris.

In Uruguay, where he lives with his wife and son Thomas, Orlando Vargas suffers from pressure from the government. Permanently watched by a policeman, Orlando seems not to care about danger. He decides to leave with his family to go to Josefina, the last village by the sea before Brazil. There, things move faster: on the day of his arrival, Orlando fails to return home.

Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) e Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) cresceram juntos e descobriram o amor. A 1ª Guerra Mundial os separa. Ao fim da guerra Mathilde faz uma incansável busca para encontrar Manech.

Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the US Federal Government.

Martin Raikes é um executivo padrão, do tipo que trabalha muito e tem pouco tempo para a família. Enquanto vai à França investigar as transações financeiras de um grupo de cinema, promete uma visita à filha, que mora em Londres. Mas, quando chega ao estúdio, descobre que algo estranho acontece lá. A diretora administrativa da empresa, Lela Forin, muito simpática, tenta desviá-lo do assunto mostrando o estúdio, apresentando um dos maiores astros da empresa, Jake Mallows, e convidando-o para um almoço em seu barco. Mesmo assim, Martin insiste para ver as contas no dia seguinte. Ela concorda, mas à noite, Martin recebe em seu hotel um homem com uma mala cheia de dinheiro. Imediatamente, Martin recusa o suborno. No dia seguinte, porém, ele é alvo de uma armadilha que o faz suspeito de um crime que não cometeu. Para escapar da polícia sozinho, sem dinheiro e num país estranho, pede ajuda a Lela, mesmo sabendo que ela pode ser sua inimiga.

After having a nervous breakdown, a popular talk-show host confronts his ex-girlfriend who is dating a cross-dresser.

Juliette is frantically running away from a man when a car hits her. Lying in the street, semiconscious and stunned, she commences counting. She knows that if no one helps her by the time she reaches 100, something terrible will happen.

A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict partner Arnie Finklestein (Adrien Brody), and he discovers that his rage and complicated psychosis fuel his murderous abilities. Harry also falls for the organization's limping, Hungarian-born maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), a romance complicated by Harry's Oedipal, sexual relationship with his domineering mother Kate (Deborah Harry).

This French comedy-drama is loosely inspired by Crime and Punishment. The title refers to an unnamed country where lovers use silence to express their love for each other. Slightly unstable office worker Rak (Francois Cluzet) is not silent but rambles in monologues, describing himself in the third person. Fired from his job, he goes into "business" for himself -- sitting in a cafe and interviewing salesmen for a position selling a non-existent encyclopedia. When he sees a real estate agent evict young musician Lucie (Elina Lowensohn), he uses a toy gun to rob the agent (who dies of fright) and then offers Lucie space in his spacious but seedy apartment, where the two find love.

The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings and talk-shows. When beautiful hat designer Camille buys the book, Martial follows her and spies on her as she reads his book and removes her clothing. It's the beginning of his obsession and also an inspiration. After Martial's live-in girlfriend Lucie establishes contact with Camille for real, Martial is able to type out another sexy manuscript.

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.

A minimalist, atmospheric, meditation on the theme of "Love" or "Amour" that focuses on reconciliation and forgiveness.

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.

Em 1981, Jean-Michel Basquiat passou de um desconhecido pintor de graffiti de 19 anos, que vivia nas ruas de Nova Iorque, a um dos artistas mais controversos e famosos do mundo, pelas mãos de Andy Warhol. As suas exposições tornaram-se o acontecimento artístico da temporada e os seus quadros foram adquiridos pelos maiores coleccionadores e museus. Em Andy Wharol, Basquiat encontra alguém que também está ali não pelo sucesso ou dinheiro, mas pela cumplicidade com a arte. A amizade de ambos é interrompida pela morte de Warhol.

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

When down-on-his-luck photographer Horace meets Jane, a young streetwalker with a sordid lifestyle, they quickly fall in love and embark on a chaotic relationship of highs and lows. However, Jane's growing drug addiction and Horace's own personal demons threaten to tear them apart in this emotional romantic drama.

In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.

Uma ex-freira que escreve contos pornográficos se cruza com um amnésico vagando pelas ruas de Nova Iorque. Empenhados a descobrir a identidade do homem, eles confrontam o passado desagradável dele, incluindo uma atriz pornô vingativa e assassinos corporativos implacáveis no seu encalço.

O alemão Oskar Schindler viu na mão de obra judia uma solução barata e viável para lucrar com negócios durante a guerra. Com sua forte influência dentro do partido nazista, foi fácil conseguir as autorizações e abrir uma fábrica. O que poderia parecer uma atitude de um homem não muito bondoso, transformou-se em um dos maiores casos de amor à vida da História, pois este alemão abdicou de toda sua fortuna para salvar a vida de mais de mil judeus em plena luta contra o extermínio alemão.

Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas.

Men and women search for intimacy and meaning in their lives.

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brookylnites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.

A young boy searches for a forest on a post-apocalyptic desert planet.