Lettre d'une cinéaste: Chantal Akerman (1984)

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad

A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the essay by George Orwell and narrated by Tilda Swinton.

Untamed Royals

Partendo da piccole malefatte per arrivare ad attività pericolose, alcuni adolescenti benestanti commettono crimini sempre più gravi con conseguenze disastrose... ma non per loro.

National Family

Don Poli, the patriarch of a family embedded in politics, faces the change of party in his state - after a hundred years in power - losing all his privileges. Humiliated and angry, he threatens to disinherit his family and leave to rebuild his life. This forces his children (Kippy, Ramses and Belén) to take extreme measures to ensure their future, causing everything that could go wrong to turn out worse.

Babes

BABES racconta le vicissitudini delle due inseparabili migliori amiche Eden (Ilana Glazer) e Dawn (Michelle Buteau), cresciute insieme a NYC, e ora alle prese, ciascuna a modo suo, con diverse problematiche dell’età adulta. Quando Eden, single e spensierata, dopo un incontro di una notte decide di portare avanti una gravidanza da sola, il loro rapporto viene messo duramente alla prova.

Il male di Andy Warhol

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's doing his job, but Hazel doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates". The sleazy side of life is explored in this delightfully dark and deadpan film.

An Ideal Father

Michel, the jovial owner of the only café in a small Normandy town, sees his life turned upside down when his teenage daughter is murdered. The community has his back but soon rumor spreads and Michel is singled out. From the ideal father, he becomes the ideal culprit.

Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna

It's a beautiful day in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg idyllic city park, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - gunfire amidst all people. Two gangsters shooting game against each other and a large police operation starts. The conflict grows rapidly to involve several gangs from Gothenburg underworld. GSI switched to try to identify a new thread which proves to be both larger and better armed than any other. The only clue is a tattoo on one of the killed gang members.

Mantra Warrior: The Legend of The Eight Moons

A story inspired by the original RAMAYANA, retold in a futuristic universe, involving brave warriors who possess ancient powers from another dimension.

Senza fine

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

Il mio amico pinguino

L'amicizia tra un pescatore brasiliano e un pinguino salvato da una fuoriuscita di petrolio. Il pescatore, di nome João, trova l'animale ferito e coperto di petrolio e, dopo averlo curato, lo libera in mare. Tuttavia, il pinguino, chiamato Dindim, torna ripetutamente da João, stabilendo un legame speciale. Nonostante la distanza e le diverse specie, la loro amicizia diventa un simbolo del potere della natura e della capacità di legame inaspettato.

The Benetón Family

Toni, a grumpy in his fifties, avoids children at all costs. His life changes when he suddenly has to take care of his sister's five adopted children, each from a different country. Toni will have to deal with new parenthood and cultural differences.

Breakfast

Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.

Muxˣ

Mux spent many years in a coma in a clinic with a constant stream of television. But at least he survived a serious car accident! Now he has woken up, and he has a plan: during his time in hospital, he came up with the idea of a fairer society. From now on, Mux sees it as his task to save the world from neoliberalism and goes to France, the motherland of revolutions, with his long-term nurse Karsten and a self-written manifesto.

Zombie Fight Club

It's the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime - Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny's boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger.

Goosebumps: Ghost Beach

While visiting their elderly cousins in a remote coastal town, brother and sister Jerry and Terri are told about an apparently haunted cave by two mysterious teenagers. However, when they explore the cave, the mystery deepens.

Women's Reformatory

Laura Regueira is wrongly accused of the murder of her boyfriend, he was killed by a band of thugs the night they were sharing a romantic moment. In the woman's reformatory Laura, besides of having to endure the life of prisoner, will have the chance of prove her innocence, with the help of a police officer who believes she's innocent Laura has the chance of uncover a band involved in drug traffic. These delinquents also use the women captive in the penitentiary as prostitutes.

Elvis Costello & The Imposters: Club Date - Live in Memphis

An Elvis Costello concert film with guest Emmylou Harris.

Latency

When professional gamer Hana, who suffers from acute agoraphobia, receives new equipment that enhances her game, she begins to wonder if it is reading her mind – or controlling it.

Gli eredi di King Kong

Il governo giapponese è riuscito a confinare sull'isola Ogasawara tutti i kaiju del pianeta (Godzilla, Rodan, Angilas, Mothra, Gorosaurus, Baragon, Kumonga, Manda, Varan e Minilla), sorvegliati da un gruppo di studiosi e trattenuti da una serie di misure di sicurezza. Improvvisamente, un gas giallo invade l'isola, addormentando uomini e mostri. Subito dopo, i mostri riappaiono in varie metropoli mondiali, devastandole...

7 Mummies

Deserto dell'Arizona. Un furgone su cui viaggiano alcuni detenuti ha un incidente: approfittando dell'imprevisto, i criminali riescono a liberarsi, uccidendo una delle due guardie di sicurezza e prendendo in ostaggio l'altra. Cercando di raggiungere il confine con il Messico, s'imbattono prima in un medaglione d'oro, poi in un misterioso indiano, che, vedendo il gioiello, comincia a raccontare ai fuggiaschi l'antica leggenda di una città edificata sopra un tesoro nascosto e protetto da una maledizione.

The Great Fava Beans of China

Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot of troubles

Next to Nothing

A group of farmers organizes a protest in front of the house of an MP who, contrary to earlier promises, voted against their interests. In the manure they dump, human remains are found.

Godzilla contro i robot

Ad Okinawa circola una profezia: un giorno arriverà un immenso mostro che rischierà di distruggere la Terra, ma sarà fermato dall'intervento di altri due mostri. La profezia sembra avverarsi quando Godzilla senza motivo attacca il Giappone, arrivando anche a ferire gravemente Angilas, suo compagno in tante battaglie. Nessuno sa spiegarsi tale cambiamento, finché non compare un secondo Godzilla, che attacca il primo smascherandolo: si tratta di Mechagodzilla, gigantesco automa che riproduce le fattezze del Godzilla originale, ed è stato costruito da una civiltà aliena per conquistare la Terra.

Texas Terrors

A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exact justice. But he can no longer sate his thirst for vengeance, fueled by the death of his parents at the hands of a bloodthirsty mine jumper. Frustrated and fed up, Bob decides it's time to dust off his guns and holsters.

Pulpe Amère

One night, a man enters his maid's room and tries to rape her while a radio soap opera describes the thoughts of a man caught up in a great amorous passion.

WAR

A war veteran tells his personal experience in “The War” to a psychiatrist, as a part of a social experiment. But nothing is as it seems…