Maria de Medeiros

Vera é uma mulher que lutou contra a ditadura e carrega terríveis traumas do passado. Tânia, sua filha, vive um casamento de 15 anos com outra mulher e pretendem ter um filho. A notícia gera um embate intenso na relação entre mãe e filha, que discordam completamente em suas opiniões relacionadas a construção familiar. Uma adaptação do espetáculo teatral homônimo de sucesso.

Em um futuro distante e inquietante, Anna Blume está em uma missão em uma cidade sem nome de caos e desastre. Seus habitantes carentes vasculham o lixo em busca de comida e abrigo, não existe indústria e um governo evasivo fornece nada além de corrupção. Anna vagueia pela sujeira para encontrar seu irmão há muito perdido, um jornalista que pode estar vivo ou não.

Em 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, herdeira e proprietária do Diário de Notícias, abandona uma vida de luxos —social, cultural e familiar— para fugir com um insignificante motorista, 26 anos mais novo. As consequências da decisão de Maria Adelaide serão obviamente dolorosas e moralmente devastadoras.

This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.

Em outubro de 1965, algumas grandes figuras de San Fermín são convidadas a desfilar na Quinta Avenida de Nova York, mas são detidas antes disso por conflitos raciais.

Insatisfeita com a vida sossegada, uma viúva em busca de mudanças embarca em um veleiro rumo a uma aventura de autodescoberta.

The fortuitous discovery of an Egyptian document from the 11th century provides the definitive key in locating the chalice from the last supper with Christ. An intense investigation leads us through the ages on a journey to discover the events that shaped universal civilization and what it means to be human.

In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco-sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession, controlled by the "Big Z": Zimurgh Corporation.

Cabeleira foi criado na mata por Sete Orelhas, um cangaceiro. Quando adulto, foi à cidade em busca do pai desaparecido e descobriu que ele era um matador que trabalhava para um francês que comandava o comércio de pedras preciosas na região. Nesse território sangrento, segue seu instinto como bicho feroz em uma cidade sem lei.

Um homem diagnosticado com esclerose múltipla questiona as limitações de seu corpo e, com a ajuda do sogro, treina para uma prova de Ironman.

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.

A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle.

Short film.

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.

Registe, talking on a blade is an Italian documentary about the Italian Cinema signed by women and about the pioneer of the Silent Cinema Elvira Notari (1875-1946) plays by Maria De Medeiros. The directors interviewed are the most important Italian women directors: Lina Wertmüller, Cecilia Mangini, Francesca Archibugi, Francesca Comencini, Wilma Labate, Cinzia Th Torrini, Roberta Torre, Antonietta De Lillo, Giada Colagrande, Donatella Maiorca, Ilaria Borrelli and others.

Hubert Wolfe, bestselling author, suffers from the writer's block for a long time. Thus, he often used a ghost writer, the talented but taciturn Dany. While the deadline for his next novel approaches, Wolfe still requires the help of his secret accomplice. But Dany is going through difficult times and finds himself before a blank page. So he hires a second ghost writer, Quentin, child care educator who lives under the yoke of his mother.

Um olhar caleidoscópico sobre o último dia do cineasta italiano Pier Paolo Pasolini, em 1975.

A young poet, Paul Susser (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais), meets his master, the great author Samuel Beckett (Stephen McHattie), in a small café. The two men initiate a complex friendship that spans the last two decades of Beckett's life and forever changes Paul's future.

Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead"

The Gang of the Jotas is a wacky take on the famous suitcase mixup at the airport. Nils and Didier are arriving to the South of Spain to play in a badminton tournament. A mysterious and manipulative woman is also coming in to set things straight with the Spanish mafia. When they meet to exchange suitcases, all three of their lives are going to be turned upside down. Although Nils and Didier would never dream of becoming her sidekicks, they agree to tag along. Against all odds, they are going to become first class hitmen ... or maybe not.

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

O documentário “Repare Bem” da cineasta portuguesa Maria de Medeiros aborda a história de três gerações de mulheres que sofreram perseguição política a partir do relato de Denize Crispim e Eduarda Leite, duas anistiadas pela Comissão de Anistia do Ministério da Justiça.

O documentário “Repare Bem” da cineasta portuguesa Maria de Medeiros aborda a história de três gerações de mulheres que sofreram perseguição política a partir do relato de Denize Crispim e Eduarda Leite, duas anistiadas pela Comissão de Anistia do Ministério da Justiça.

Nasser Ali Khan, o melhor violinista de sua época, desmorona depois que sua mulher, após uma briga, quebrou seu instrumento. Ao não encontrar outro violino digno, decide morrer em sua cama, começando assim uma viagem de lembranças e alucinações.

A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.

Maria, uma médica ucraniana, vem a Portugal passar um ano com Greco, o seu marido, também ele médico. À chegada ao aeroporto de Faro é abordada por agentes do Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras que a levam para uma sala de interrogatórios, sem quaisquer explicações. Tudo isto ocorre pelo facto de as autoridades desconfiarem que algo de ilegal deve estar por detrás daquela viagem, uma vez que ela é da Europa de Leste e o seu marido é senegalês.

A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

Anos 70. Aos 6 anos Roberto Carlos Ramos (Marco Ribeiro) foi escolhido por sua mãe (Jú Colombo) para ser interno em uma instituição oficial que, segundo apregoava a propaganda, visava a formação de crianças em médicos, advogados e engenheiros. Entretanto a realidade era bem diferente, o que fez com que Roberto aprendesse as regras de sobrevivência no local. Pouco depois de completar 7 anos ele é transferido, passando a conviver com crianças até 14 anos. Aos 13 anos, ainda analfabeto, Roberto tem contato com as drogas e já acumula mais de 100 tentativas de fuga. Considerado irrecuperável por muitos, Roberto recebe a visita da psicóloga francesa Margherit Duvas (Maria de Medeiros). Tratando-o com respeito, ela inicia o processo de recuperação e aprendizagem de Roberto.

Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.

St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.

Documentary about the love-hate relationship between filmmakers and film critics with interviews made at Cannes Film Festival.

Anna e Mara voltam de férias no exterior e percebem que Anis, um jovem imigrante marroquino, conseguiu se esconder em seu carro para atravessar a fronteira com a Itália. A princípio, sem saber o que fazer, eles decidem levá-lo com eles.

A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of other "phenomenoms" including a haunted château nearby, she curiously accepts a stranger she finds in her mansion's barn. This fact contradicts her fearful nature, but fulfills her loneliness. The stranger has run away from a nearby psychiatric clinic, where her father was treating the stranger. She hides the stranger, protects him, and he becomes her best friend. Is this girl searching for true companionship, coming of age, or is she asserting her independence for the first time in her short life?

Betty, a famous brasilian 'telenovelas' star, is in search of her twin sister Marlene, who vanished when the kids were four years old (Marlene is now a prostitute). Fragments of other stories, like that of an italian traveller Filippo who left in Italy Giuli, pregnant, and claims to have a split-personality, are inter-twined with the main one

Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy.

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.

While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. The music is touched by sadness and the emotions of the characters are no different. Nearer they become while the singer sinks deeper into the melancholy.

Haaaaa... Meu Amor...Vrrrrumm...Hhoooo...Pum Pum...SOCORRO...Ra-Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta...Tcham...Grrrr...Tchac...Hããaan...Uauuuu!!!!!!

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.

Tendo apenas 23 anos, Ann (Sarah Polley) é mãe de duas garotinhas, Penny (Jessica Amlee) e Patsy (Kenya Jo Kennedy), e é casada com Don (Scott Speedman), que constrói piscinas. Ela trabalha todas as noites na limpeza de uma universidade, onde nunca terá condições de estudar, e mora com sua família em um trailer, que fica no quintal da casa da sua mãe (Deborah Harry). Ann mantém uma distância obrigatória do pai, pois ele há dez anos está na prisão. Após passar mal, Ann descobre que tem câncer nos ovários. A doença alcançou o estômago e logo estará chegando no fígado, assim ela terá no máximo três meses de vida. Sem contar a ninguém seu problema e dizendo que está com anemia, Ann faz uma lista de tudo que sempre quis realizar, mas nunca teve tempo ou oportunidade. Ela começa uma trajetória em busca de seus sonhos, desejos e fantasias, mas imaginando como será a vida sem ela.

O filme mostra a vinda de Sherlock Holmes e seu inseparável companheiro Dr. Watson ao Rio de Janeiro, na época de D. Pedro II.

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away?

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…

Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.

Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview and collection of footage from performances throughout her long career.

Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend, should he start a business with his friend, what color should he buy shoes for? Life for him is an eternal dilemma. But one day, fate made a choice for him. Vansan crashes into an advertising post by car and makes a leap in time for 16 years in advance. Now at about forty, he heads a large corporation, is married to a woman with whom he is barely familiar, has a teenage son who is constantly bold to him, and an early-ripened daughter. And he has absolutely no idea what to do with all this. Realizing that he has become everything that he always despised, Vansan is desperate to go back and make the right choice. But can he turn back the clock? ..

Um retrato da Revolução dos Cravos, que mudou a história portuguesa na década de 70. A realizadora e actriz Maria de Medeiros faz um retrato pessoal e nostálgico dos episódios mais marcantes do 25 de abril.

Um retrato da Revolução dos Cravos, que mudou a história portuguesa na década de 70. A realizadora e actriz Maria de Medeiros faz um retrato pessoal e nostálgico dos episódios mais marcantes do 25 de abril.

Um retrato da Revolução dos Cravos, que mudou a história portuguesa na década de 70. A realizadora e actriz Maria de Medeiros faz um retrato pessoal e nostálgico dos episódios mais marcantes do 25 de abril.

This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women who is nonetheless unsure about her looks, compounded by the fact that she's fallen in love with Vincent, who has a policy of only dating models. Daphne's best friend Celine comes up with an idea -- she'll get her pal Jacques to paint a nude portrait of Daphne. When Vincent sees the painting, he'll be more attracted to the woman who posed for it, leading him to her doorstep. But of course, it isn't quite that simple.

An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels underground, while scattering the humans to the corners of the Earth and giving them different languages to keep them separate. Thousands of years later, three Babels are searching underground for the Babel Stone presented to them by God when they lose the map -- which is soon snapped up by a dog, who presents it to his master, an advertising man named Patrick. The Babels are desperate to recover the map, and they recruit Patrick's son David to help them find it (and the Babel Stone) before the evil Nemrod can steal the stone and claim its powers.

Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box.

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, comes to Lisbon to help find her, at the request of Lena's mother. Using the letters that Lena has left behind as a testament to her life, in wich she has rebelled against the challenged the powers that be, Ningo discovers the identity of her kidnapper - Jorge Matos - a former secret policeman who has followed her from Lourenço Marques, motivated by morbid desire. Lena's kidnapper dies from two inexplicable snake bites to the neck, in accordance with a legend and ritual that had been part of Lena and Ningo's childhood.

A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.

Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.

Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.

American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean and a young woman, Vita, step in with a scheme to get back at Sophia, a character who is never seen during the entire film. Included is a parody of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter (1978).

Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2.

When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.

In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers her neighbor was the lover of the woman who was murdered in real life -- and is still a suspect.

Catarina é uma cara famosa da televisão. Tem uma grande vontade de ter um filho e sabe exatamente o tipo de homem que deseja para pai dessa criança. Só não sabe quem é esse homem, nem quando o vai encontrar. Não quer se envolver com ele. Entre outras razões, porque os homens são uns chatos. E ela já está apaixonada por outra mulher. Mas para Catarina, querer é poder.

Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.

Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other

Pulp Fiction retrata três histórias interligadas que seguem as desventuras de dois assassinos baratos, da insinuante mulher do seu patrão e de um desesperado boxeur em fuga.

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.

Benito González is a flamboyant engineer in Melilla, with a brash and pushy personality. His dream is to build the tallest building ever in the region. After his girlfriend leaves him, he devotes himself entirely to his ambitions, deciding to let nothing get in his way. He marries the daughter of a billionaire, intending to use her father's money to realise his project. Benito waltzes his way through a career of excess, fetishes and deceptions, but the personal conflicts he unleashes ultimately send his life spiraling down to disaster.

A delightfully classic French comedy of high sophistication and light hearted wit, that in the end suffers for it. This is immensely watchable simply for the presence of Maria De Medeiros, the central two of the film are captivating. What spoils it is the stereotypical and under developed second characters and an overly wistful outlook. But I defy any man watching this film not to fall madly for Aimee and everyone will cherish the scenes between Aimee and Maurice.

Fábula musical inspirada no Banquete de Platão. Num monólogo sem pudor, o jovem aristocrata Alcibíades confessa as suas estratégias para conquistar o filósofo Sócrates – certo de que o saber pode ser transmitido por contacto físico.

Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.

Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.

Um manicômio. Os doentes dessa instituição acham que são Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eva, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, um Filósofo, um Profeta, um Fariseu, Santa Teresa d'Avila, e estão sempre recitando a Divina Comédia.

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Em Paris, no início da década de 30, o escritor Henry Miller forma um triângulo amoroso com sua mulher e sua amante, que sente atração pelos dois mas, apesar de casada, não se interessa muito pelo marido.

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister does not have a happy life. He initiates a friendship with a worker on the farm. The circumstances turn Laura and Nuno against each other... Portrays the repressed sexuality and homosexual desire in a rural setting and elliptically and delicately the small farming community that serves as the backdrop for the impossible relationships pursued by Laura and her brother.

A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.

Constance é uma jovem que gosta de ler - e gosta de sonhar enquanto lê - para imaginar, criar imagens. Isto é o que ela faz para «La Lectrice», um romance que conta as aventuras de Marie, uma jovem que gosta tanto de ler que decide fazer uma profissão. Textos selecionados, Provence no inverno, diferentes bairros. Desvios da ficção, esquemas secretos. Um espaço imaginário penetra no espaço da cidade, cujas ruas Marie percorre, enquanto Constance devora a novela. O desconhecido está por trás de cada palavra.

Numa noite de insônia de 1978, Francisco e Rita se encontram para relembrar João, um amigo de infância assassinado recentemente. João pertencera a um grupo subversivo de esquerda durante a ditadura e era produtor de cinema, que estava filmando uma adaptação do drama de Alexandre Herculano, O Bobo.

Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.

Two teenage girls from Belgium run away to Paris and have to learn how to survive.

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.

In 1870, four different stories happen in four different places in the world.