Director
Vera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship, has lived in multiple South American countries. Her daughter Tânica has been married to another woman for fifteen years, and they're about to have their first child.
Victoria
A young woman ventures into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder to search for her journalist brother.
Maria Adelaide
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.
Judith Ferreto
This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.
Amira (voice)
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.
Francisca
Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow (played by Maria de Medeiros), prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called ‘Hovering Over the Water’.
Margarita Torres
The fortuitous discovery of an Egyptian document from the 11th century provides the definitive key in locating the chalice from the last supper with Christ. An intense investigation leads us through the ages on a journey to discover the events that shaped universal civilization and what it means to be human.
Althea
В недалёком будущем бумага становится дефицитом, а библиотеки превращаются в закрытые музеи, которые не каждому доступны. Печать здесь запрещена и информация поступает только на цифровые носители. В этом цифровом городе неожиданно происходит серия ритуальных убийств. Главный герой Адам попытается настигнуть убийцу, следуя подсказкам, которые он оставляет.
Madame Blanchard
In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.
Noelia
Фильм о человеке, которому поставили диагноз «рассеянный склероз», но он не сдался и прошел триатлон. В итоге он проплыл 4,8 километра, проехал на велосипеде 180 километров и затем пробежал 42 километра. До этого он не мог пройти и ста метров…
Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a series of film sequences in unique configurations, potentially hundreds of thousands of new stories are conjured by code. Each will exist only in the moment—no pausing, scrubbing, or sharing—offering the audience one chance to see the generated film. This project, co-created by the ever imaginative Guy Maddin, is a visual discourse on the impact of loss within film. All the sequences pay homage to lost silent films from the early day of cinema. Seances is nostalgic but it is also frequently hilarious. Part of the joy and sadness of Seances is that many possible narratives are created but they can be only viewed once before they disappear forever.
Violette Tréfouille
15-летний Венсан не желает мучить крыс с одноклассниками и продавать сперму в интернете. Он живет с матерью и жаждет найти своего отца. А находит издателя со скверным характером.
Short film.
The Blind Mother / Clotilde
Таинственный дровосек появляется на борту подводной лодки, которая несколько месяцев находится под водой в ловушке из-за нестабильного груза. Это событие заставляет команду обреченного судна встретиться с своими самыми потаенными страхами.
Elvira Notari
Registe, talking on a blade is an Italian documentary about the Italian Cinema signed by women and about the pioneer of the Silent Cinema Elvira Notari (1875-1946) plays by Maria De Medeiros. The directors interviewed are the most important Italian women directors: Lina Wertmüller, Cecilia Mangini, Francesca Archibugi, Francesca Comencini, Wilma Labate, Cinzia Th Torrini, Roberta Torre, Antonietta De Lillo, Giada Colagrande, Donatella Maiorca, Ilaria Borrelli and others.
Maria / Scarlet
Hubert Wolfe, bestselling author, suffers from the writer's block for a long time. Thus, he often used a ghost writer, the talented but taciturn Dany. While the deadline for his next novel approaches, Wolfe still requires the help of his secret accomplice. But Dany is going through difficult times and finds himself before a blank page. So he hires a second ghost writer, Quentin, child care educator who lives under the yoke of his mother.
Laura Betti
История последних дней жизни итальянского режиссера Пьера Паоло Пазолини.
Carole Thomas
A young poet, Paul Susser (Vincent Hoss-Desmarais), meets his master, the great author Samuel Beckett (Stephen McHattie), in a small café. The two men initiate a complex friendship that spans the last two decades of Beckett's life and forever changes Paul's future.
Eléonore
Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead"
Maria
Путаница в аэропорту сводит вместе двух друзей, готовящихся к турниру по бадминтону, и женщину в бегах от банды, убившей ее сестру…
Director
Фильм-антология, состоящий из нескольких историй на тему невидимости в современном мире.
Writer
The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.
Director
The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.
Faringuisse
Волшебная история жизни талантливого музыканта Насера Али. Когда его любимая скрипка разбилась вдребезги, даже в самых дорогих инструментах Насер слышит фальшь. Музыкант запирается в своей комнате с твердым намерением умереть за восемь дней.
Madame Collier
Французы выдвигаются на побережье. Горожане и влюбленные панки, пенсионеры, супружеские пары, тайные любовники, семья скаутов и даже садомазохист-неудачник намерены получить заслуженный отдых и немного развлечься в палатке, в номере безымянного отеля, в автотрейлере, домике размером с собачью будку. Они все едут на море — на машине для гольфа, в электричке и спортивных автомобилях с открытым верхом. Их случайные и спланированные встречи, измены, влюбленности, семейная рутина и другие курортные приключения превратятся в фейерверк.
Maria
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of interrogation, without any explanations. All this occurs because the authorities suspect that something illegal should be behind her trip, since she is from Eastern Europe and her husband is Senegalese.
Maria de Medeiros
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.
Francesca
Маттео — успешный психоаналитик, муж Франчески и отец очаровательной 5-летней дочери. У него есть старый приятель Диего, который в отличии от Маттео, всегда в кругу друзей считался горячей головой. Но, несмотря на мечты и романтизм, Диего строго следовал по стопам своего отца и стал адвокатом. В молодом возрасте, он познакомился с девушкой из США по имени Шэри, которая вскоре забеременела и родила от него сына Дэвида. Мальчик воспитывался матерью в Нью-Йорке, где работал моделью нижнего белья, он не был в Италии уже пять лет. И вот старые приятели арендуют красивый дом на пляже, чтобы провести лето вместе. Сюда же из Штатов приезжает Дэвид, чтобы отдохнуть с родителями и их друзьями. Аура парня возбуждает в Маттео взрыв неконтролируемых эмоций. Он теряет голову и безнадёжно влюбляется в Дэвида. Эти каникулы у моря изменили жизнь всех персонажей фильма.
Margherit
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
Cécile
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.
Livia
St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".
L'amie de Médée
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Director
Documentary about the love-hate relationship between filmmakers and film critics with interviews made at Cannes Film Festival.
Anna
Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.
Mado
A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of other "phenomenoms" including a haunted château nearby, she curiously accepts a stranger she finds in her mansion's barn. This fact contradicts her fearful nature, but fulfills her loneliness. The stranger has run away from a nearby psychiatric clinic, where her father was treating the stranger. She hides the stranger, protects him, and he becomes her best friend. Is this girl searching for true companionship, coming of age, or is she asserting her independence for the first time in her short life?
Betty, a famous brasilian 'telenovelas' star, is in search of her twin sister Marlene, who vanished when the kids were four years old (Marlene is now a prostitute). Fragments of other stories, like that of an italian traveller Filippo who left in Italy Giuli, pregnant, and claims to have a split-personality, are inter-twined with the main one
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy.
Director
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.
While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. The music is touched by sadness and the emotions of the characters are no different. Nearer they become while the singer sinks deeper into the melancholy.
Narcissa
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
Chantal Petit
Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.
Hairdresser
Энн двадцать три, и у нее две дочери, безработный муж, мать, которая всех ненавидит, и отец, отсидевший последние десять лет за решеткой. Она работает уборщицей в университете, в двери которого и днем она никогда не решилась бы войти. Ее монотонная жизнь меняется, когда врачи сообщают ей о неизлечимой болезни, и что ей осталось жить всего два-три месяца. Энн решает радикально изменить свою жизнь.
Sarah Bernhardt
Rio de Janeiro, 1886. A precious Stradivarius violin presented to Emperor Dom Pedro II is stolen. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to solve the case.
Jenny Johnsen
Аварийная посадка на поверхности Марса прерывает сенсационную экспедицию, призванную раскрыть удивительные тайны красной планеты. Оказавшись в разбитом корабле среди бескрайней каменной пустыни, астронавты понимают, что теперь они могут надеяться только на своё мужество и изобретательность. В отчаянной попытке выжить и не сойти с ума, марсианские пленники отправляются на разведку к странному объекту в гигантском ущелье. Они еще не знают, что впереди их ждет поразительное открытие, о котором не могли мечтать даже самые смелые фантасты.
Miss Diablo
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Vera
Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…
Dr. Giordano
Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.
Margherita
Maria Viola da Silva
Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview and collection of footage from performances throughout her long career.
Laurie
Вэнсану 30 лет, но он так и не научился принимать решения. Чего бы это ни касалось. Надо ли ему жениться на своей подружке, начать ли дело со своим другом, какого цвета купить себе ботинки? Жизнь для него — вечная дилемма. Но однажды судьба сделала выбор за него. Вэнсан врезается на машине в рекламный столб и делает скачок во времени на 16 лет вперед. Теперь ему уже под сорок, он возглавляет крупную корпорацию, женат на женщине, с которой едва знаком, имеет сына-подростка, который ему постоянно дерзит, и рано созревшую дочь. И он совершенно не представляет, что ему со всем этим делать. Осознав, что он стал всем, что он всегда презирал, Вэнсан отчаянно стремится вернуться назад и сделать правильный выбор. Но сможет ли он повернуть время вспять?..
Antónia
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Writer
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Director
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Céline
This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women who is nonetheless unsure about her looks, compounded by the fact that she's fallen in love with Vincent, who has a policy of only dating models. Daphne's best friend Celine comes up with an idea -- she'll get her pal Jacques to paint a nude portrait of Daphne. When Vincent sees the painting, he'll be more attracted to the woman who posed for it, leading him to her doorstep. But of course, it isn't quite that simple.
Alice
An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels underground, while scattering the humans to the corners of the Earth and giving them different languages to keep them separate. Thousands of years later, three Babels are searching underground for the Babel Stone presented to them by God when they lose the map -- which is soon snapped up by a dog, who presents it to his master, an advertising man named Patrick. The Babels are desperate to recover the map, and they recruit Patrick's son David to help them find it (and the Babel Stone) before the evil Nemrod can steal the stone and claim its powers.
Antoinette Vervier
Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box.
Lena
Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, comes to Lisbon to help find her, at the request of Lena's mother. Using the letters that Lena has left behind as a testament to her life, in wich she has rebelled against the challenged the powers that be, Ningo discovers the identity of her kidnapper - Jorge Matos - a former secret policeman who has followed her from Lourenço Marques, motivated by morbid desire. Lena's kidnapper dies from two inexplicable snake bites to the neck, in accordance with a legend and ritual that had been part of Lena and Ningo's childhood.
Président Blandine Brucker
A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.
Fátima do Espíritu Santo
Парень — маменькин сынок решает жениться, но теряет обручальное кольцо после ночи в борделе. Поиски потерянного кольца, наркомафия, проститутки с золотым сердцем, автогонки и взрывы сменяются на экране с головокружительной скоростью…
Nancy Pickford
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.
Vita
American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean and a young woman, Vita, step in with a scheme to get back at Sophia, a character who is never seen during the entire film. Included is a parody of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter (1978).
Consuelo
Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2.
Karenine
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.
Claude
In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers her neighbor was the lover of the woman who was murdered in real life -- and is still a suspect.
Catarina Meneses
Catarina Menezes is a bisexual TV reporter who decides to have a child on her own and chooses Spanish humanitarian doctor Rafael to father the child, setting up an elaborate charade to lure him into her bed. When Catarina reveals her pregnancy, though, her current live-in girlfriend doesn't take to it kindly and promises to make Catarina's life hell; to make matters worse, Rafael finds out her true identity and comes to Lisbon to see her. And Catarina's sole refuge is in the arms of fellow journalist Francisco, her professional relationship slowly becoming a romantic one.
Cristina Pratas
Cristina is twenty years old. Her father was declared missing in action during the war in Angola many years before. One day in church the girl meets a man about fifty years old who tries various times, unsuccessfully, to make the sign of the cross. The man is called Cristovão. A few days later the two meet again. The man offers to help her look for her father. A relationship based on memories and confessions is formed between them. But soon they each return to their own solitude.
Maria
This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy and dutiful daughter upon whose shoulders the family traumas have fallen. In addition to a regular job she cooks, cleans, and studies. Her parents offer no assistance as her father is blind, with a tendency towards violence when drinking. His wife, the focus of his violence is terribly unhappy. After a particularly brutal beating, Maria's brothers rise up against the father and end up leaving the home. It is up to Maria to try to bring the factions together. Maria's pressures increase after she calmly stabs her boss during an attempted rape, and then copes with her mother's suicide.
Maria
Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other
Fabienne
Двое бандитов Винсент Вега и Джулс Винфилд проводят время в философских беседах в перерыве между разборками и «решением проблем» с должниками своего криминального босса Марселласа Уоллеса. Параллельно разворачивается три истории. В первой из них Винсент присматривает за женой Марселласа Мией и спасает ее от передозировки наркотиков. Во второй рассказывается о Бутче Кулидже, боксере, нанятом Уоллесом, чтобы сдать бой, но обманувшим его.
Tweedy Bird
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.
Therese
Marta (La mujer, 45 kilos)
Амбициозный инженер использует свое обаяние, чтобы получить деньги на реализацию проекта мечты.
Aimee
A delightfully classic French comedy of high sophistication and light hearted wit, that in the end suffers for it. This is immensely watchable simply for the presence of Maria De Medeiros, the central two of the film are captivating. What spoils it is the stereotypical and under developed second characters and an overly wistful outlook. But I defy any man watching this film not to fall madly for Aimee and everyone will cherish the scenes between Aimee and Maurice.
A musical fable inspired by Plato’s Symposium. In a shameless speech, Alcibiades, a prominent young Athenian aristocrat, propounds his strategies to seduce the old philosopher, Socrates. He believes that the wisdom and knowledge he imagines Socrates has, can be transmitted via physical contact.
Ofelia
Ofelia is the daughter of photographer Miguel and of deceased circus artist Lea. When her father is hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, she decides to find out the reason and in doing so discovers the truth about the relationship between her parents and the true fate of her mother.
Все готово к репетиции: утрясены профсоюзные проблемы, успокоены непокорные музыкантов, укрощены вздорные творческие темпераменты. Теперь, кажется, и "волки сыты, и овцы целы"... Но потом заходит ОНА! Примадонна, большая международная звезда, великая певица... В роли оперной дивы Кэрин Андерсон - непревзойденная Гленн Клоуз. Появление знаменитой женщины наносит решительный удар по хрупкому согласию в оркестре, которого с трудом добился главный дирижер Золтан Санто. Постановка оперы Вагнера "Тангейзер" становится эффектным фоном для бурного романа женатого маэстро и его главной исполнительницы! Наперекор досадным "накладкам", завистливым козням и скверным несуразностям, фонтан страсти дирижера и певицы преобразился в грандиозный творческий триумф.
Sónia
"Все действие происходит в весьма условном сумасшедшем доме в Португалии: особняк в парке, отсутствие мед. персонала, респектабельная одежда обитателей - все это делает их похожими на посетителей светского приема, и ничто в очищенном от быта пространстве не отвлекает от отвлеченных разговоров, из которых фильм и состоит. Все обитатели страдают от религиозных галлюцинаций того или иного рода - даже циник, который вообще отрицает ценность любой религии. Одна пара разыгрывает историю Адама и Евы в Саду, а затем женщина, которая изображала Еву, разыгрывает из себя Св. Терезу де Авила. Другая пара воображает себя персонажами романа Достоевского, а один мужчина заявляет, что в его распоряжении - пятое Евангелие. И у каждого есть своя точка зрения, которую он не смущается высказывать, защищая ее в дебатах с большой искренностью."
Bárbara
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
Anais Nin
Истосковавшаяся по сильным, чувственным ощущениям, очаровательная писательница Анаис Нин проводит дни за подробным изложением своих эротических переживаний в личном дневнике. Ее существование не приносит никакого удовольствия: жизнь тосклива и приторна, словно сироп. Свободного времени у нее хватает на десятерых; порядочный, но скучный муж надоел до безумия, и, казалось бы, ничто уже не сможет вырвать Анаис из пресного бытия. Но именно в этот момент появляется удивительная пара: странный, вульгарного вида, тип по имени Генри Миллер и его таинственная красавица-жена Джун…
Maria
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Laura (voice)
Laura lives in the country with her considerably older husband. When Nuno, her brother who study in Lisbon, pays a visit, he realizes that his sister does not have a happy life. He initiates a friendship with a worker on the farm. The circumstances turn Laura and Nuno against each other...
Portrays the repressed sexuality and homosexual desire in a rural setting and elliptically and delicately the small farming community that serves as the backdrop for the impossible relationships pursued by Laura and her brother.
Cecile
A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
l'infirmière muette
Молодая женщина Констанс, читающая роман «Чтица», идентифицирует себя с его героиней Мари, которая, оставшись без работы, нанимается чтицей к разным людям, в каждом случае принимая особые условия чтения-игры. Они диктуются как запросами слушателей, так и произведениями, избранными для чтения – книгами Льюиса Кэррола, Ги де Мопассана, Владимира Ленина, Маргарет Дюрас, наконец, маркиза де Сада. Констанс, все более погружающаяся в чтение романа и превращающаяся в Мари, не может уже различить границу между вымыслом и реальностью…
Claudia
Dulce (voice)
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Agnès
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on the backstage melodramas of an opera company. The conductor for an upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro has his mind and heart on other matters -- an entrancing diva who keeps him enraptured with her presence and voice. In the meantime, he finds fault with his cast members who cannot, of course, measure up to the woman of his dreams. As singers encounter one problem or another, it is clear that something has to be done about the conductor. Director Laurent designed costumes for both theater and opera, giving her some insight into the venue.
Two teenage girls from Belgium run away to Paris and have to learn how to survive.
La première fugueuse (segment 1)
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.
Sílvia / Silvestre
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Ana as a Child
The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.
In 1870, four different stories happen in four different places in the world.
