Loïs
Em Pacifiction, em uma ilha da Polinésia Francesa, uma escritora retorna ao seu país depois de ter triunfado na França com um romance. No entanto, ela está desorientada e em crise criativa. Diante da impossibilidade de escrever novos trabalhos, ela decide aceitar um trabalho de tradução simultânea junto com um embaixador. Uma estranha atração amorosa começa entre eles, cheia de contrastes. Aos poucos ela percebe o cinismo da política internacional, com uma ameaça latente de novos testes nucleares por parte do governo francês. Seu caso de amor com o embaixador será afetado por esse conflito, e interesses políticos e romance se misturam.
Armin
Pouco antes da Revolução Francesa, um grupo de libertinos expulsos da corte de Luís XVI foge para a Alemanha, onde se encontram com o lendário sedutor e livre pensador Duc de Walchen. O objetivo deles? Exportar a libertinagem, uma filosofia baseada na rejeição da moralidade e autoridade.
In an ambiance loaded with tension, intellectual doubts and creative frustration, Rainer Werner Fassbinder writes and teaches the staging of a theater piece about the 18th century Libertiage at a great theater in Berlín.
Louis XIV
Catalan director Albert Serra’s follow-up to his magisterial The Death of Louis XIV is another forensic documentation of the Sun King’s final breaths. Here, however, Versailles is replaced with the glow of the gallery.
Ministre 3
No ano de 1715, mais especificamente no mês de agosto, o monarca Luís XIV (Jean-Pierre Léaud) começa a sentir dores na perna. Ele continua a exercer suas funções nos dias seguintes, mas passa a ter sonos intranquilos, além de problemas com alimentação e febre. Cada dia mais fraco, acompanhamos os lentos últimos dia da sua vida.
The film takes place in Ireland – an Ireland where people speak Catalan with a Fassbinder accent – from the 1930 to today, and follows in several parallel directions the sprawling saga of two rival gold mines, the exploitation of artists by Capital, and the simultaneous opening of a brothel where women do not like men. Because he does things his own way, Albert Serra’s most narrative and wordy film was not meant for cinema: produced by the Venice Biennale, it was part of an installation, its chapters shown simultaneously on several screens. Singularity could very well have been called “Velvet Goldmine”, as it sings the meeting of brothels and tunnels, of a golden stud and lustful bodies (both shown as abstractions).
An homage from Serra to one of his idols, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, shot in a nightclub full of characters that resemble the ones of Fassbinder films. The title comes from the favourite drink of “Beware of the Holy Whore” characters.
Pompeu
Casanova meets a new servant who will witness his last moments in life, from a castle with its libertine 18th century atmosphere to the poor, shadowy Northern lands. There, his rationalist way of thinking and mundane world will succumb to a violent and romantic force, represented by Count Dracula.
Rainer Wermer Fassbinder
A 101-hour long reflection on the construction of Europe, its cultural identity and its foundations through the complete adaptation of the texts ‘Conversations with Goethe’ by J. P. Eckermann, ‘Hitler’s Table Talks’ and ‘Fassbinder über Fassbinder: Die ungekürzten Interviews’ (a compilation of interviews with the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, which is used as a counterpoint to the first two books). The texts are read, page by page, by non-professional actors.
Self
Part of the crew of Honor of the Knights travels to La Mancha to see the real settings of Quixote’s life in order to shoot a film.
Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play De los nombres de Cristo (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended for exhibition "Are You Ready for TV?". Filmed partly in the rooms of MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), is about the difficulty of naming or visually represent abstract concepts.
Third Wise Man
The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.
self
Waiting for Sancho is an ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition colour over five days in the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Waiting for Sancho is a kind of experimental “making of” the critically acclaimed El cant dels ocells (Birdsong_/_Le chant des oiseaux). A particular take on the Biblical story of The Three Kings en route to the baby Jesus, El cant dels ocells premiered at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs at Cannes 2008.
Himself
A poetic portrait of Lluís Serrat Massanellas, an unprofessional actor and friend of Albert Serra since working with him on Honour of the Knights, and his father, Lluís Serrat Batlle.
Sancho
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.
