Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the old city of Valletta, Malta; this is a short film that explores dark, liquefied decrepitude. A sailor's son is damned to row a rotting boat back and forth across a hemmed harbour. Numbed by ineptitude yet spurred by guilt and expectations, tormented by the enseamed union between overbearing mother and weaselly uncle, the boy spirals down a foredoomed path.
Paul
Pauls a lonely man. Locked up in his desolate life he struggles to face reality. He's forced to change his views when it's too late.
Surgeon
Александрия Египетская. Начало V века нашей эры. Великая жизнь, страстная любовь и трагическая гибель прекрасной Гипатии, первой в истории женщины-ученого — философа, математика, астронома. Перед ее мыслью преклонялись мудрецы, на ее лекции стекались тысячи, она предвосхитила открытия Галилея и Коперника, к ее слову прислушивались правители, красота ее ума и тела разбивала сердца.
Guzeppi (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
The Father
A foreigner comes to Malta, to take pictures of dilapidated buildings. He photographs ruins that look like they could be on Bocklin's "Isle of the Dead." Soon he finds, however, that crumbling edifices are not the only similarity between the two Isles.
