Maxhumain (1998)

A remote village in the Northwest of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting, no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted. The landscapes and buildings are not so much inhabited as lightly entwined and then passed through by their anonymous residents, like some creeping mist. Phantoms half stuck, half undone in a phantom world—lost persons from a lost society?

Theodore Ushev’s acclaimed 20th century trilogy concludes with this brilliant fusion of 3D and Russian constructivist-styled animation. Recycling elements of surrealism and cubism, this animated short by Theodore Ushev focuses on the relationship between art and war. Propelled by the exalting “invasion” theme from Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony (No. 7), the film presents imagery of combat fronts and massacres, leading us from Dresden to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to Star Wars. It is at once a symphony that serves the war machine, that stirs the masses, and art that mourns the dead, voices its outrage and calls for peace.

A soldier with a fur hat hides in a closet.

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

Documentary about a lodging house, owned by Rosa Carbajal, at the corner of Shakespare and Víctor Hugo streets.

Это фильм об одном дне жизни маленькой рыбацкой артели на Белом море.

Сюрреалистический этюд на музыку Пола Дезмонда и Дэвида Брубека.

Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

An imagined apocalypse is presented to us through portraits of people struggling to survive in a hostile environment, where they only have themselves and the only thing they have in common is the desire to live, no matter the cost.

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...

Короткометражный анимационный фильм, выпущенный в Японии в 2003 году. Всего при создании фильма приняли участие 35 режиссёров под руководством Кихатиро Кавамото. Структурно «Зимние дни» делится на 36 различных эпизодов, каждый из которых является своего рода экранизацией одного из стихотворений, составляющих одноименный поэтический цикл Мацуо Басё, написанный в форме рэнку (то есть последняя строчка предыдущего стихотворения является первой для последующего).

Aurelio is a shark fisherman who works very hard to send money to his family in the city and keep Manela, his young lover on the coast. One day, he decides to move to the big city.

Мужское и женское, твердое и мягкое, последовательное и прерывное, цельное и фрагментарное — вот тема фильма. Хотя, это всего лишь один день работы на фабрике.

Один из лучших фильмов режиссера Эмилио Фернандеса — история бывшего заключенного, начинающего жизнь с чистого листа. Мужчина женится на очаровательной Паломе и принимается обрабатывать землю, но местные фермеры не дают ему покоя и начинают вставлять палки в колеса.

A homeless kid addicted to sniffing glue is part of a vicious circle of dysfunction and sexual abuse.

An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.

Focuses on a boy as he discovers love and comes to face the morality of his family. The film speaks of this through a web of oblique details, attempting to capture the flesh of relations and, perhaps, the very tension of being...

Художник, уставший от жизни, покидает Мехико и отправляется в горы, чтобы подготовиться к смерти. В затерянной среди гор деревне он находит последнее пристанище в скромном домишке индейской вдовы. Завораживающая красота необъятного мира, открывшегося ему, доброта и человечность женщины пробуждают в нем жажду жизни и любви.