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A companion piece to Les Unwanted de Europa (IFFR 2018) and Checkpoint Berlin (IFFR 2020), I morti rimangono con la bocca aperta extends Fabrizio Ferraro's project of retracing the historical footsteps of those fleeing persecution.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema.
Producer
Como nos apegamos às antigas tradições patriarcais, embora em um novo mundo globalizado, a sociedade precise seguir em frente e inventar novas formas de pensar.
Producer
Mr. Emmer is a jaded Film Director, Catarina the assistant of an absent Producer. Together they embark on a journey in search of Hölderlin's places, for a never forgotten project on the German poet. But during the journey their aspirations will prove to be an obstacle for the realisation of any work. A love song for a suffering Nature.
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Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan Shafei invites us to discover a country through its music and its people. Erfan is a funny and ironic young Kurdish man who wants to become a film director. He sings, writes poetry, lives with his parents and his parrot, but knows nothing about love...
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A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.
Screenplay
A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.
Director
A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.
Producer
O filme refaz os acontecimentos de uma trilha nos Pireneus, dos que fugiam do fascismo que naquele momento infectava o coração da Europa. Catalães e militantes internacionalistas que fugiram do regime de Franco. Antes: Judeus comunistas e dissidentes pelos Nazistas logo depois.
Producer
Fabrizio Ferraro’s homage to Saint Sebastian, subject of three paintings by the Italian early Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna, starts in the present day with colorful images of tourists in the ancient ruins of the Palatino and the Foro Romano in Rome. Suddenly we are transported to another dimension, now in black and white, the same place but another time, suggesting the film’s inherent circularity.
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Morador de rua, mas sempre vestido com extravagância, um homem com vários apelidos, mas uma personalidade absolutamente singular. Pirata, também conhecido como Monarca e Kevin, mora nas ruas, ou como ele mesmo diz, é um residente do “prédio de areia” das praias de Miami. Neste filme, ele reflete sobre suas aventuras em várias esquinas e estacionamentos. Ou enquanto se exercita na praia.
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The legendary Oleg Nikolaevitch Karavaichuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the young director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the eccentric and still active 89-year-old Russian.
Producer
Pepe has left the psychiatric hospital after serving time for stealing to work. Only the solidarity of Antonio, a disabled activist, allows him to build a fragile life on which to project his weak hopes. Nevertheless, his need to fit in a senseless world becomes a desperate chore. The horizon of his long-awaited “normality" proves unreachable. The relationship with Antonio interpellates his view of life, inviting him to recognize himself as an anomaly and invent a new madness in which to live.
Producer
Lluís Miñarro directs the beloved Rosa Novell in this orally narrated short film, which was the actress's first work in front of a camera.
Writer
Lluís Miñarro directs the beloved Rosa Novell in this orally narrated short film, which was the actress's first work in front of a camera.
Director
Lluís Miñarro directs the beloved Rosa Novell in this orally narrated short film, which was the actress's first work in front of a camera.
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Soldados com uma misteriosa doença do sono são transferidos para um hospital provisório instalado em uma antiga escola abandonada. Jenjira torna-se voluntária para tratar de Itt, um belo soldado que ninguém vem visitar. No hospital, ela faz amizade com a jovem médium Keng que utiliza os seus poderes para ajudar os parentes a se comunicarem com os homens adormecidos. Um dia, Jenjira encontra o diário de Itt preenchido de palavras e desenhos estranhos. Talvez haja uma conexão entre a síndrome enigmática dos soldados e o mítico local em que o hospital se encontra. A magia, a cura, o romance e os sonhos misturam-se no frágil caminho de Jenjira em direção ao conhecimento profundo de si própria e do mundo à sua volta.
Producer
Villamediana uses his family history to unravel hidden memories of kabbala in Spain. With contemporary images, found footage, archival material, film, literature and ancient Hebrew texts, he creates a new cinematic language for unearthing cultural history.
Producer
Em Amami-Oshima, uma ilha subtropical do Japão, tradições sobre a natureza permanecem eternas. Durante a noite de lua cheia das tradicionais danças de agosto, o jovem Kaito, de 16 anos, encontra um corpo flutuando no mar. Sua namorada Kyoko tentará ajudá-lo a desvendar o mistério. Juntos, Kaito e Kyoko aprenderão a ser adultos experimentando a tessitura dos ciclos da vida, da morte e do amor.
Co-Producer
Em Amami-Oshima, uma ilha subtropical do Japão, tradições sobre a natureza permanecem eternas. Durante a noite de lua cheia das tradicionais danças de agosto, o jovem Kaito, de 16 anos, encontra um corpo flutuando no mar. Sua namorada Kyoko tentará ajudá-lo a desvendar o mistério. Juntos, Kaito e Kyoko aprenderão a ser adultos experimentando a tessitura dos ciclos da vida, da morte e do amor.
Producer
An extraordinary black comedy that explores the limits of survival and absurdist political power games. The story takes place in times of elections in Mexico. A candidate for Governor runs over a pregnant migrant. After the accident, and to avoid a possible scandal, he hides her in a building he owns. Pressured by his political boss and so as not to ruin his political career, the candidate evicts the migrant. In a non-realistic style, the film focuses on the stories that surround the migrant during her search for a room. A radical film, with a critical gaze, that reflects the spirit of contemporary Mexican society.
Screenplay
During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.
Producer
During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.
Director
During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.
Producer
Before embarking on a long scientific expedition to the Pacific, Juan takes his girlfriend Gala to the town where he spent his childhood. During the visit, the couple talk about future plans and deep differences emerge. Five months later, when John returns home, he discovers that his life is about to change forever
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Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there. Nevertheless, the apartment's owner will try to throw him away by any means.
Producer
A Spaniard in Argentina becomes aware of his approaching death while staying at a hospital, so he decides to run away from Buenos Aires and start a trip up North, heading nowhere in particular.
Writer
An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.
Producer
An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.
Director
An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema.
Producer
In Erati (Mozambique) is carried out since 2005 Erati Saude Program, focused on the development of the health network. It involves three Spanish NGO, together with the Ministry of Health of Mozambique, and with funding from the Generalitat Valenciana. In Erati live the protagonists of these three stories: The caneta, The capulana Madalena and glass eye. Three stories inspired by real characters and spaces. They are actually one story: the story of the meeting of two worlds in the struggle for life.
Executive Producer
Hollywood, 1927. The talkies have just been born and the big movie studios, responding to the demand of millions of Spanish speakers, begin to produce Spanish versions of their most ambitious productions. It is when a group of Spanish directors, screenwriters and actors decide to settle in Los Angeles in order to make a name for themselves among the biggest stars.
Producer
Hollywood, 1927. The talkies have just been born and the big movie studios, responding to the demand of millions of Spanish speakers, begin to produce Spanish versions of their most ambitious productions. It is when a group of Spanish directors, screenwriters and actors decide to settle in Los Angeles in order to make a name for themselves among the biggest stars.
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Aos 81 anos, Bastu ainda ama uma boa festa e dança até o amanhecer com seus amigos. Quando o marido morre, ela é repentinamente forçada a repensar sua vida e sua rotina. Ela passa tempo contando histórias para seus netos e relembrando com os amigos.
Producer
Martin e Mariana vivem na mesma rua, em edifícios opostos, mas eles nunca se conheceram. Eles andam pelos mesmos lugares mas nunca notaram um ao outro. Quais são as chances deles se conhecerem em uma cidade de três milhões de habitantes? O que os separa, irá uni-los.
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A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment, he will be haunted by Angélica day and night.
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An old empty house. The guard who takes care of it. The priest of the town. Spaces, sounds, lights and shadows. Time goes by and the memories are shown in its walls and in the most hidden nooks.
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Maria suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Luis, Maria's fifteen-year-old grandson, doesn't say very much either; he shuts himself off in his own silent world to escape his parent's marital crisis, spending time instead picking up stray cats and dogs off the street. His father, Miguel, wants to put a stop to this eccentric behavior, but his protective mother Alice indulges him. Nevertheless, the animals begin to appear at home in increasing numbers, making life complicated for the family in their flat.
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Sofrendo de insuficiência renal, Tio Boonmee resolveu passar os últimos dias de sua vida recolhido em uma casa perto da floresta e ao lado de entes queridos. Durante um jantar com a família, o espírito de sua esposa falecida aparece para ajudá-lo em sua jornada final. A eles se junta Boonsong, filho de Boonmee que retorna após muito tempo metamorfoseado em outra forma de existência. Juntos, eles percorrerão o interior de uma caverna misteriosa, onde Boonmee nasceu em sua primeira vida.
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Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
Producer
“Cinéclub” is the story of a small art and rehearsal cinema. The cinema dies with all its workers: the projectionist, the blockbuster, the viewers...One of the few spectators of this little film falls for the blockbuster, which feels no interest in it. The decay of this relationship parallels the decline of the theater, which is disappearing in absolute silence, always empty, apparently without any future, but perhaps they can find a way out.
Director
The movie is filmed as if it were a Mandala, Sanskrit term which designates the symbolic circular diagrams characteristic of Hindu and Buddhist thought. Performer and co-writer is the Jinpa Gyamtso Lama, born in Terrassa, a monk since 1989 and director of several Tibetan Buddhist centers in Spain. The camera accompanies a group of friends who emerge from their retreat to take a trip to India. There, the seemingly unalterable everyday life show not being an impediment to personal searches.
Producer
The Spain that fades. We assist to the painting of a family portrait that reveals a generation away: our elders. Two survivors of the civil war and postwar tell us about their most intimate secrets, which are none other than the commitment to life. Another view of our collective memory ...
Director
The Spain that fades. We assist to the painting of a family portrait that reveals a generation away: our elders. Two survivors of the civil war and postwar tell us about their most intimate secrets, which are none other than the commitment to life. Another view of our collective memory ...
Writer
The Spain that fades. We assist to the painting of a family portrait that reveals a generation away: our elders. Two survivors of the civil war and postwar tell us about their most intimate secrets, which are none other than the commitment to life. Another view of our collective memory ...
Producer
Numa viagem de comboio para o Algarve, Macário conta as atribulações da sua vida amorosa a uma desconhecida senhora: Mal entra para o seu primeiro emprego, um lugar de contabilista no armazém em Lisboa do seu tio Francisco, apaixona-se perdidamente pela rapariga loira que vive na casa do outro lado da rua, Luísa Vilaça. Conhece-a e quer de imediato casar com ela. O tio discorda, despede-o e expulsa-o de casa. Macário consegue enriquecer em Cabo-Verde e quando já tem a aprovação do tio para finalmente casar com a sua amada, descobre então a "singularidade" do carácter da noiva.
Producer
A young man fascinated by the world of bullfighting lives isolated in the countryside trying to shape his obsession: internal bullfighting, bullfighting with no bull. A spiritual path based solely on the technique as an end in itself. To do this, after a period of training and coaching, he will start building his own space to carry out his great work.
Producer
Mohamed, a Pakistani tailor, exploits his Indian assistant, Singh, in an extremely tiny shop in Barcelona. Two years later, Singh sets up his own business and lives a ruinous romance with a Russian woman, while his real wife waits for him in India. In the meantime, Mohamed is still in his tiny tailor shop exploiting a new and much closer assistant: his brother Alyas. The internationally awarded short The tailor has now become a feature triptych based on three universal concepts: work, couple and family.
Executive Producer
The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.
Producer
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Producer
From the beginning of time, a man walks in front of his flock to the rhythm of the seasons. The nomadic shepherd belongs to our collective imagination. Joan "Pipa" is one of the last representatives of an ancient tradition. We accompany him on his last nomadic trip to the Catalan Pyrenees. Day after day he we share his intimacy, we discover the past and present of a man who loves his job and breathes the joy of living freely in nature. But the abandonment of land, industrialization and rampant growth, urbanistic fever, the multiplication of new infrastructure and now climate change end the dream and lead to an uncertain future. Is the disappearance of transhumance a sign of progress, or the death of our civilization?.
Producer
"Listening Gabriel" it is a full of magic urban story about fear to the unknown, personal growth and love as the main force for live. Gabriel is a strange and solitary young boy who lives inside his own world. New in town, Sara is a passionate and independent violinist that moves to the same building where Gabriel lives. Carlos, on their part, has just left the jail because of his dark past and he can't find the courage to meet his son Gabriel after 16 years. Three wandering characters in their own personal way who will meet in a crossroads in their lives. Around a missing piano and the world of music that surround it, they will have to find the hope and the motivation to love, to live and to forgive.
Executive Producer
An advertising creative dies unexpectedly while working on an idea for the launch of an anti-cold pill. From then on Pedro, one of his old colleagues, begins an intricate search in order to discover the departed's idea, taking over his place and making use of his original notes and thoughts. Along the way Pedro comes across an orphan, a street child that will unconsciously and eventually lead him to a new and singular idea.
Producer
Depois de se mudar com sua família de Chicago para a floresta de Oregon para supervisionar o trabalho de construção de uma casa "ecologicamente correta", Dan Sanders pensa que seu maior problema é lidar com a fobia pela natureza de seu filho adolescente. Ou aguentar seu exigente chefe. Mas quando sua atividade exige destruir o habitat local dos animais que ali vivem, ele entra na lista negra dos bichos e está para descobrir quanta confusão um bando de criaturas da floresta pode causar. Eles sabotam o trabalho de Dan dia e noite, colocando sua carreira em risco e iniciando uma divertida batalha entre homem contra a natureza.
Producer
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
Producer
Uma adaptação livre do romance Dom Quixote, de Cervantes. Durante a rodagem, a equipa de produção e o elenco embarcaram numa jornada cinematográfica e biográfica que espelha as experiências dos dois protagonistas do romance.
Producer
Luna, an amateur producer, meet Chico Ocaña after a concert and becomes fascinated with him. Both are well suited and decide to take foward an ambitious plan: to make a documental about "flamenco".
Producer
The life in a Catalan (Southern France) village near the border may be quite boring. A young man who is escaping from his homeland is seeking for something and may find it in this weird place. You see the relationship between the people in the village, their dreams, their past and their perspectives in life. The foreigner is hosted there and is messed in the deep whereabouts of these people and tries somehow to fit in.
Pijo
Producer
Ann and Don are two people caught in a somber existence who cross paths by accident and whose only true ambition is to care and feel.
