The Loneliest City on South America (2024)

The Hearts of Age

A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges an old man, dressed as a dandy, who tips his hat to the woman as he walks down stairs grinning. Others leave the same door and walk down the same stairs: a shabby man, a cop, and, several times, the same dandy. The man in blackface hangs himself; the dandy continues to smile. A bell tolls, a grave beckons. In the dark, the dandy plays the piano. Is he Death? The Hearts of Age is the first film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short, which he co-directed with William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles' first wife, Virginia Nicholson, as well as Welles himself. He made the film while attending the Todd School for Boys, in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19.

Flow

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Whale

Whale is the story of Cameron, an Iranian American writer who returns home to his mother's house in Orange County, California after a failed relationship and lack of direction with life. Back home, Cameron spends time reacquainting with old friends only to find that life has gotten more confusing for everyone.

Freakbeat

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Amor Maldito

Two young women with different social backgrounds have a lesbian relationship. The real problems begin when one of them also gets involved with a man, a journalist.

Big Breasted Daughter-in-law

Gyeong-jun and Gyeong-joon promised marriage. The performance, where he didn't have a place to live, went into Gyeong-joon's house. While enjoying her newlyweds a little earlier, Gyeong-jun suddenly says that she has to leave for two months on a business trip. Playing with In-young and Nam-soo, who will become mother-in-law without a husband without even registering marriage, Thanks to Inyoung and Namsu, who treat me kindly, I live well, but as the days go by, I am getting tired of dissatisfaction with playing. With envy at the sex between In-young and Nam-soo, Feeling vulgar to Kyung Joon, who left himself alone In order to solve the desire, he searches for a man through the meeting site.

Flying Devils

A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.

Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

Formed in 1978 by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald, and still actively playing and recording today, Redd Kross are the ultimate rock and roll lifers. They have influenced independent music in ways that beg to be acknowledged. From helping invent Beach Punk to influencing the Grunge and Glam Metal movements, Redd Kross have maintained the highest level of musical integrity, originality and quality for over forty years. Born Innocent will introduce a wider audience to two of the coolest people alive. The McDonald Brothers embody Southern California, rock and roll, and what it means to be an artist.

Fantastic Animation Festival

A collection of fourteen award winning animated short films including "Moonshadow," "The Last Cartoon Man," "Closed Mondays," and "Cosmic Cartoon".

The Automaton

In 1897, a young widow returns to the family farm where she discovers her late husband's attempt at building a primitive sentient machine.

Endless Night

Yves grows up with his attractive blonde aunt. Her affair and the handling of his awakening sexuality make him a voyeur, and witnessing her murder at the hands of her brutal husband turns him into a sex killer as an adult.

#4 Mangifera

A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.

Troppo sole

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Her Deadly Night in Paris

An American exchange student in Paris falls in love with her host family's handsome son, but when she witnesses a murder, the couple must go on the run to prove her innocence.

La Dernière Caravane

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The Miracle Man

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.

München 1945

Shot in Munich just a few weeks after it was taken by the American troops on April 30, 1945.

Sleep Furiously

Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.

Naughty gang

In one of Baku's international high schools geography class, the teacher talks about the hunting of wild cats in the Indian jungle. Influenced by this, Heydar imagines himself as a hunter in India. Soon, his classmates join him into making a game out of his daydreaming.

Bad Company - Live At Wembley

When legendary classic rockers Bad Company performed at the historic British venue Wembley Arena in London on a beautiful April 2010 spring night, high-definition cameras captured the whole evening in all its glory. There was magic in the air as all three original Bad Company members - vocalist extraordinaire Paul Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs and drummer Simon Kirke - are augmented by bassist Lynn Sorensen and guitarist Howard Leese. (Original bassist Boz Burrell died in 2006.) The set list is packed with every major hit, fan favorites and seldom-heard deep album cuts.

All's Fair

To relax, a group of stressed-out executives go to the country for a weekend to play war games.