Det udda paret Brinnie och Vadar bor i en stad där eld-, vatten-, jord- och luftinvånare lever tillsammans. Den eldfängda unga tjejen och den mer avslappnade "ta-dagen-som-den-kommer"-killen kommer snart att upptäcka något elementärt: att de faktiskt har massor gemensamt och att det kan uppstå magi mellan motsatser.
An organization races against time to uncover the mastermind behind the placement of 13 bombs in Jakarta before the city falls into chaos.
Sound progression of two opposite landscapes.
Fourteen-year-old Li Xing lives in a district full of ruins and reconstruction. School brings him nothing but problems and his family is no help at all. One day, he finds an underground shelter where strange things happen...
a man late for a date, runs into his high school sweetheart at a train station, here the pair briefly re-live the past and the messy end to their relationship.
Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.
An experimental film following a trip made by three friends in which the contrast between the agitated city of São Paulo, Brazil and the calmness of the beach leads the flow. No script. No story. Just vibes.
A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and, ultimately, revelation.
When a young family man runs into financial trouble, he takes a risky job with his criminal brother.
Helen suffers from a rare fear of chalk. One day she feels encroached by several chalk figures in Helsinki and decides to confront her fear. In the Amos Rex museum, she discovers the works of Keith Haring in a catalogue and adapts his style to her needs for catharsis.
A representation of queer and feminist imagery that was mainly shot in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, remote and developing areas in southwest China, and metropolitan cities like Beijing from 2000 to 2004 to document the social changes in contemporary China. The director sympathetically and erotically represents a variety of women, including women as laborers, women as prayers, women in the ground, women in marriage, and women who lie on the funeral pyre with their dead husbands. Her camera juxtaposes the mountains and rivers in old times, the commercialized handicrafts as exposition, the capital exploitation of the elders’ living space, and the erotic freedom of the young people in a changing city.
A film killing itself.
The beaches of the Baltic Sea are terrorized by a shark. The military manage to destroy it, but the shark returns in spectral form.
An documentary exploring what the city of Liverpool means to the people who call it home.
An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before.
Lisbon, 1980, the city, the intensity, the chaos, the noise, the crowd. Overwhelmed by the commotion, a young woman sets off in search of peace in the palace gardens of Sintra. Her red umbrella glides across the pearly whiteness of the rising mist.
Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going to have to run if he wants to get paid this month...
Waking to find himself alone with a murdered woman, Eddie Carter - a night shift cab driver with a worrying history of sleepwalking - sets out to discover the killer, desperately hoping it isn't him. His investigation takes him deep into London's seedy night-time underworld.
Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about her work and her relationship with Lucas, her husband. Sara, through the force of the sea, wants to achieve spaces of freedom. The encounters with a Caribbean woman, Rosa, and an enigmatic man from the city, Virgilio, will be decisive in resolving her personal dilemmas and better understanding the meaning of justice in a society indifferent to the most marginalized people and with enormous inequality.