In a world where childbirth is state-regulated, a couple applies for a license to have a child. They pass the first round of the process, but have no idea what awaits them in the second round.
BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.
The siblings Eydis and Kari are only five and six years old when their parents' marriage breaks apart. As their mother struggles to find her footing following the divorce, they are sent temporarily to a countryside children's home. But the stay turns out to be longer than they had ever expected.
Na Romênia dos anos 1980, milhares de filmes ocidentais atravessaram a Cortina de Ferro e abriram uma janela para o mundo livre para quem se atrevesse a olhar. Um escroque de fitas VHS do mercado negro e uma corajosa tradutora trouxeram a magia dos filmes para as pessoas e provocaram uma revolução.
