Wundkanal (1984)

Donne in amore

Nell'Inghilterra del 1920, una timida maestra si innamora di un ispettore scolastico, mentre la sorella, una scultrice anticonformista, dà vita a un rapporto passionale e torbido con un industriale. E anche tra i due uomini nascerà un sentimento ambiguo, con risultati catastrofici per tutte e quattro.

Linda and Irina

Guillaume Brac films Linda and Irina in this pivotal time of adolescence, where everything is a balancing act between doing what one wants and living up to parents’ expectations, in the run-up to that long-awaited adulthood.

The Little Bedroom

One day, a bad fall forces Edmond to accept Rose's help. Eventually, the two grow closer. The young woman finds relief in confiding painful memories to the older man; things she cannot even bring herself to tell her husband. Meanwhile, Edmond, too, opens up, sharing recollections of his beloved wife.

Island of Swans

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where his father works as a construction worker. Stefan must find his way in a completely new environment and surrounded by strange people. Stefan gets to know two girls, who attempt to seduce him, and gets himself into trouble with the landlord, who kisses up to societal authority figures. He becomes friends with the anxious Hubert, defends him against the constant humiliation of the older student Windjacke, and encourages him to stand up for himself. It ends tragically in a bitter fight between Stefan and Windjacke.

Riga's Lilac

Everyone has their own emotional overwhelm regarding a bad smell. Lizete, an amateur interviewer, is eager to record the moments when it is revealed. Dealing with the topic of bad odour's influences on society, this is an animated short film for adults in the inquiring style of a documentary. The director continues to work on tragi-comic stories about our natural awkwardness while finding ourselves.

İstanbul 79

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False Neon God

False Neon God combines music, choreography and film, with each working as an interpretation of the others, as layers of sound and vision keep falling in and out of synchronicity while being opposed by their respective medium-specific antitheses.

Madness: Rock En Seine 2009

Madness play a set live from the "Rock En Seine" festival, 2009.

Basara: The Princess Goh

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.

Moscow

Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention to the drama generated during rehearsals for the Galpão Theater Company’s performance of Chekov’s The Three Sisters. As he shoots scenes from the play, Coutinho attempts to capture the very moment in which reality becomes fiction and vice versa—whether through the actors’ bodies and words or in backstage scenes of a performance that will exist only on film.

The Veteran

Thirty years on from Vietnam, a government official is trying to track down soldiers who went missing in action, in the hope that it may lead her to her father. Meanwhile, a war veteran is forced to relive painful memories of how he was left for dead by his own platoon, and the heinous crimes he once committed while in the line of duty.

Leila and the Others

The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.

Play Motel

Patrizia e Roberto, attori teatrali e coniugi, dopo avere pernottato al Play Motel, rinvengono per caso un cadavere nel bagagliaio della loro auto. Abbandonata momentaneamente la vettura per avvertire la polizia, all'arrivo di questa scoprono con stupore l'avvenuta rimozione del corpo, poi ritrovato in tutt'altro luogo: la polizia scopre trattarsi di Maria Luisa Longhi, moglie del commendator Rinaldo Cortesi. Su impulso soprattutto di Patrizia, i due coniugi s'improvvisano investigatori per aiutare la polizia a risolvere il caso.

Bodycheck - Mit Herz durch die Wand

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