1971-1980

Synopsis
Leonor works in a brothel called El Paraiso, in a Caribbean environment. Juan, a man in love with Leonor, has escaped from prison. Both Leonor and John want a new life, but they are hampered by the shadow of their past.Read More »

IMDb wrote:
A beautiful young woman is abducted and forcefully initiated into a live sex act on a private stage, participating in lesbianism, interracial sex and an orgy in front of a live audience.Read More »

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‘This region for an airman is just a map’, however, whosoever looks closer will discover a thousand secrets of a thousand lives on each Budapest corner or balcony. Memories of peacetime afternoons, family photos, love letters, then bombed houses, tanks driving down deserted streets and decrepit buildings awaiting demolition all flash up for a moment in this lyrical etude by István Szabó, not the first work in his series of filmmaking confessions for Budapest. The story of a city that preserves its past in its buildings and its inhabitants won the grand prix at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1977.Read More »

Valie Export’s daring film about relationships, “Menschenfrauen” (loosely translated, “humanwomen”), focuses on Franz S., a journalist, and his relationship with four women: the kindergarten nurse Petra, he teacher Gertrude, barmaid Elisabeth and his wife Anna.

Franz “doles out honorary pieces of himself to the ‘human women’ in his seraglio, whispers the same assurances. Eventually, everyone catches on and makes some effort toward independence” (East Village Eye). “A landmark film…Valie Export achieves in ‘Menschenfrauen’ what Godard strove for but failed in his ‘Every Man for Himself’–a human view of a woman’s place in a man’s world…From credits to close, ‘Menschenfrauen’ eludes conventional cinematic vision” (Seattle Film Festival).Read More »

An Estonian folk tale about Tõll, the giant hero who lived on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa.Read More »

STORYLINE:
Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie-making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.Read More »

Through a rich tapestry of characters, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora. Rafailidis noted that the film was “the result of a serious reflection on the grave Greek past and its uncertain historical destiny”.Read More »

A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. At dawn, he helps to deliver a calf and, just as mysteriously and distantly, disappears down the road. In the spring, he returns to stay as a farmhand, gains the respect of the widow and the devotion of her young son, and begins to end their feelings of loneliness. When an intruder, in the person of a rich merchant, shows up and presses his attentions on the widow, the farmhand saves her from his attentions. But there is a mystery about where the stranger came from; and why, after winning the hearts of the widow and her son, he has to go away again.Read More »

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“My intention was none other than to instill in people a loathing for the fabricated and nonsensical stories of entertainment films, which are already wavering due to my genuine heroes and will undoubtedly soon collapse completely. Thus, Mirador gives cinematic form and effectiveness to our demand: the demand for the suppression of feature films that corrupt the people’s imagination. This film opposes the absurdity and extravagance of the same recurring fantastic adventures and deeds of gangsters, cowboys, handsome men, monsters, etc.; the formulaic and inorganic nature of the plot and intrigue, the black-and-white portrayal of the characters, and indeed, the psychological shortcomings – in short, the distortion of the realities of life and the laws of art. The realistic and critical spirit of the film Mirador fights against the devastating effect of such extravagances on the imagination of immature people.” — Werner Nekes.Read More »