El principio de Arquímedes (2004)

Strange Object

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.

Bottle George

The short explores the relationship between George, a man trapped inside a small bottle, and Chako, a young girl who is scared of her alcoholic father. She is poor, but resilient, and she lives with her cat.

Bark

Charismatic Nolan Bentley wakes up in the middle of a remote forest, tied to a tree with no recollection of how he got there. With his time relentlessly running out, a mysterious stranger appears and he must finally reckon with the demons of his past and fight to survive to find a way out of his nightmare.

The Break-Up Club

Dylan, a young man with a beautiful and carefree life, runs, along with his best friend Mike, the "Break-Up Club", a private club that offers assistance to help cope with the breakup. Things are going well until Zoë, a journalist and former employee of the club, starts writing a compromising article about the "Break-Up Club".

O Mistério de Robin Hood

A kind wanderer living around a circus, who also happens to work as a modern Robin Hood, must solve the mystery behind the kidnapping of a lost little girl he meets.

After Hours

A pensive man wearing an empty ID jacket and a broken watch drifts through public spaces on the way home.

Starshaped

Three years of candid camera on the road with Blur, from Reading 1991 through the dark ages of the EEC in 1992 and then on to Modern Life. This 126 minute tour film features live footage including scenes from Glastonbury ’92, the Heineken Music Festival ’94 in Nottingham, and festivals in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. It is a fascinating rockumentary about the early days of one of the most influential bands of the 1990s.

The Last Ferry

One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is under surveillance of the secret police, anxious to get their hands on the info that he is carrying. When the ship is in the middle of the Baltic sea, martial law is declared and the ship is militarized. The captain announces he will turn and return the home port. Many anguished passengers put the life vests on and jump into the sea, where they are picked up by two German ships. The teacher, however, decides to return to Poland and continue the struggle for freedom.

Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

The Forest Maker

Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and challenges ideas of conventional reforestation with his simple yet effective method.

Painted Boats

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

Symptoms

A 17-year-old girl faces a life with an adverse perspective, where her social life, her experiences, her happiness and emotional stability only depend on a thread that is too damaged.

As Jy Sing

Mr. Conradie is a conventional music teacher who lives for his singing group, Die Bekfluitjies. Die Bekfluitjies represent the outcasts of their sports-crazy school. Circumstances force them to fight for what they believe in - their music - because when they sing, life just makes more sense!

Siempre la duda

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The Navy Way

The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.

Sahel: A French War

The history of the Sahel region in West Africa is that of an explosive chain of countless misfortunes: drought and soil degradation, maximum insecurity and violence, Tuareg independence uprisings, drug smuggling, institutional corruption and jihadism; but also that of a civil society in constant demographic growth that is waking up and trying to change things.

Witch-Hunt

When five young women gather to play a witch-themed board game, they begin to suspect one of them may actually be a witch.

Birds Like Us

The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.