Kees Kasander

The documentary by Mari Soppela focuses on glass ceilings, a metaphor for the invisible borders between men and women in work life. Talk about glass ceilings is usually associated with women’s opportunities to advance to well paid managerial positions, but the documentary connects itself more broadly to the structural problems of work life from women’s perspective. Glass ceilings are long trials about equal pay, having to continually prove one’s skills, and 85-cent euros. The topic cannot be handled without intersectional crossings: what are invisible glass ceilings for some, are solid concrete for others.

The seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not go as easily as the boisterous Stach had expected, especially when he is confronted with matters of life and death.

Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.

Fish Tank conta a historia de Mia (Katie Jarvis), uma garota de 15 anos, que vive com sua mãe (Kierston Wareing) e irmã nos subúrbios da Inglaterra. Excluída da escola e desprezada por seus amigos, a vida de Mia muda quando ela conhece Connor (Michael Fassbender), o novo namorado de sua mãe.

J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's paintings into 17th century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate beings. However, reality was different.

O ano 1642 marca uma viragem na vida do famoso pintor holandês Rembrandt, que perde o seu estatuto de respeitada celebridade e se transforma num pobre desacreditado. Perante a insistência da sua mulher grávida, Saskia, Rembrandt aceita pintar a Milícia dos Mosqueteiros de Amesterdão, num retrato de grupo que mais tarde ficará conhecido como “A Ronda da Noite”. Rembrandt rapidamente se apercebe que há uma conspiração em marcha e através dessa pintura encomendada está disposto a pôr a nu os conspiradores, construindo a sua acusação sob a forma de um quadro que desvela o lado hipócrita e negro da época de ouro da sociedade holandesa.

Dolf um menino de 15 anos é enviado de volta no tempo por um timemachine. Acidentalmente ele é enviado de volta à Idade Média. Ele é resgatado por crianças que fazem parte da cruzada de uma criança, em seu caminho para resgatar Jeruzalem. Durante a viagem, Dolf descobre que o perigo não vem de fora da cruzada, mas de dentro.

Uma introdução hilária, usando como exemplos alguns dos melhores filmes da história, às idéias do filósofo e psicanalista esloveno Slavoj Žižek sobre subjetividade pessoal, fantasia e realidade, desejo e sexualidade.

A rotina de quatro adolescentes da cidade de Visalia, Califórnia. Shawn (James Bullard) é um skatista que transa com a namorada e com a mãe de sua namorada. Tate (James Ransone) gosta de se masturbar várias vezes seguidas e tem um cachorro de três pernas. Ele é criado pelos avós, que não respeitam a sua privacidade, o deixando furioso. Claude (Stephen Jasso) é agredido seguidamente pelo seu violento pai, um alcoólatra que o acusa de homossexualidade, e é consolado pela sua apática mãe grávida. Peaches (Tiffany Limos) anseia por liberdade, mas tem de cuidar de seu religioso pai, um cristão fundamentalista, que a espanca após vê-la transando. Embora conversem o tempo todo, cada um dos personagens não sabe dos problemas enfrentados pelos outros.

Documentary about the lives of worshippers from the congregation of the Greater Bethany Community Church in South Central LA and the sermons of its Bishop Noel Jones

A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.

This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.

"Rosa", with a libretto by Peter Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen, is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the death of a famous composer - some real, others fictional. "Rosa" falls into the latter category; it tells the story of Juan Manuel de Rosa, a Brazilian who went to study music in America but spent most of his time in the cinema instead, becoming particularly entranced by Westerns. Now 32 years old and residing in an abandoned Uruguayan slaughterhouse, Rosa has become one of Hollywood's foremost composers, specialising in Westerns. He also has a beautiful 19-year-old fiancee, Esmeralda, but he pays her little heed, instead lavishing his attentions on a black mare named Bola. One day, a group of men attired as cowboys arrive at the abattoir and kill both Rosa and Bola; an investigation is conducted, with particular suspicion!

After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts). They sign one-year contracts with eight (and a half) women to this effect. The women each have a gimmick (one is a nun, another a kabuki performer, etc.). Philip soon becomes dominated by his favourite of the concubines, Palmira, who has no interest in Storey as a lover, despite what their contract might stipulate. Philip dies, the concubines' contracts expire, and Storey is left alone with Giulietta (the titular "½", played by Fujiwara) and of course the money and the houses.

Orfã de mãe, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) cresceu em uma tradicional família japonesa, sendo criada pelo pai (Ken Ogata) com o auxílio da tia (Hideko Yoshida). A cada aniversário da jovem, seu pai escreve bençãos em seu rosto e nuca enquanto a tia lê um antigo manuscrito. Com o passar do tempo, o ritual marcará momentos importantes na vida da protagonista.

After the theft of his motorcycle, Lucio bums aimlessly around Buenos Aires drifting from one arcade and record store to the next, indulging in short chats with friends and, more often, setting out onto the streets alone.

Na Dinamarca do século VI, Fenge assassina o rei, seu irmão, e toma a rainha como esposa. Fingindo-se enlouquecido, o príncipe Amled é mandado para a Escócia, onde prova sua bravura e prepara sua vingança.

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

The ghosts of a middle-aged woman and a precocious little girl help an unwed jazz musician and a bar dancer reverse their bad fortune.

Marcel and Jim, two friends, appear to be plagued by a midlife crisis which is ruining both their artistic and emotional lives.

A revisionist biopic on Charles Darwin, illustrated via 18 tableaux covering details from Darwin's birth, his defining voyage on the HMS Beagle, the publication of his seminal Theory of Evolution and his ultimate death and consequent burial at Westminster Abbey.

A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).

An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro.

Theo and Thea want to make a movie of Snow White, but Gerard Joling, who should play prince, cries off. Someone suggests to ask opera singer Marco Bakker. First he doesn't want to, but when Theo and Thea dress up like jazz singers Bea and Ans, he decides to join in. Marco even falls in love with the dressed-up Theo. Written by Clausule

O gângster Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) janta todas as noites no restaurante Le Hollandais em companhia de seus capangas e sua esposa Georgina (Helen Mirren). Cansada dos modos violentos e grosseiros do marido, Georgina flerta com um solitário Michael (Alan Howard). Com a cumplicidade do chefe de cozinha Richard (Richard Bohronger), os dois amantes fazem sexo às escondidas no banheiro e na despensa do restaurante, enquanto Albert devora prato após prato em sua mesa. Quando Albert descobre a traição da esposa, desfecha uma cruel vingança contra Michael, que por sua vez será vingado por Georgina.

Cansada das traições do marido, Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright) afoga-o. Suas filhas (Juliet Stevenson e Joely Richardson), também insatisfeitas em seus casamentos, seguem o "exemplo" da mãe e assassinam seus maridos da mesma maneira. O legista local, que nutre uma paixão pelas mulheres da família Colpitts, impede que os crimes sejam descobertos.

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Film professor Michael falls in love with one of his students and is confronted with his pupil's father, with whom he had an affair over 15 years ago. This unexpected meeting abruptly overturns the lives of all the characters. When the tutor decides to undertake a planned trip to London, not with the son but with the father, he is once again forced to choose; this time between his wife and his friend.

An ode to musicals past. Handsome men spend their time in a beautiful manor.

One day, Louis - who seems obsessed by weapons and all things related – visits his old school friend Ada. She is quickly won over and not long after they marry. After the wedding their honeymoon takes them to Verdun in northern France, where over 500,000 soldiers died during the First World War. Louis runs from one monument and cemetery to the next, like someone possessed, salivating because of how hard the fighting was there. Ada feels increasingly uneasy with her new husband. One day, he purposely has himself and Ada locked in at Fort Douamont where terrible events took place during the war. There he turns out to be a stark raving maniac.

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch prophesies the events of 1492, the start of the modern world.

A writer, realising his last big adventure will very likely be death, takes a sabbatical and leaves his home in New York City’s Little Italy to travel with his family to Lucca, Italy in order to trace his ancestral roots and clean up the loose ends in his life.

From Moscow to Mexico City, Eisenstein was privileged enough to met the cultural heroes of the era and embrace them as compatriots, with a handshake. Such was his reputation as the wunderkind of the new art of cinema, everybody wanted to meet him; there were writers, painters, critics, theorists and philosophers, as well as composers, architects, and artists from all branches of the cultural life that was shaping minds and civilizations. Our project would follow Eisenstein's journey and note the significant characters he encountered on his travels, with a focus on Switzerland.

The 27 year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi walked from Romania to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most important sculptor of the 20th century. Brancusi leaves his small village of Hobitza, south of the Carpathian Mountains and walks through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and parts of France to arrive in Paris, the metropolis of world culture for the first three decades of the 1900s. He walks in spring, summer, winter and autumn, treading the landscape away from the beaten track, experiencing sights, having adventures, suffering hardships, looking, touching and feeling the world as a preparation of what is to come for him.