2001-2010

Directed by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert, Falling is a “charming, intelligent and low-key” human drama about five independent women, former classmates who have forged different lives since their school days, who are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn child. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has followed the group’s idol into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggling to balance personal needs with professional goals. Cool, calm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while loose cannon Nicole desperately seeks to be closer with her estranged young daughter Daphne.Read More »

A documentary about the people who visit a cemetery, and a testament to the saying, life is short, art is long. Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some – such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin – are worshiped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer.Read More »

When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of MontaltoDi Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally newworld, an ambient extremely divided politically. She starts developing her friendship with the”left side”, represented by Margherita, and the right, Daniela, side of her class. She will loseherself, without knowing who she really is. However, maybe Edward, the young Australianboy, who lives in the apartment across hers, can help her more that she thinks.Read More »

The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.Read More »

Synopsis: Director Luc Moullet revisits sites in the southern French Alps where he set several films. At elevations of 2000-6000 feet, Moullet shows how the terrain interacted with the process of producing, directing and acting in these films.Read More »

Director Rithy Panh turns his attention from Cambodia’s deadly past (last year’s S21: Khmer Rouge Killing Machine) to its uncertain present in this portrait of the legendary temples of Angkor and of the people paradoxically creating a future out of its ruins. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Angkor’s spectacular complexes provide a haunted stage for the laborers, peddlers, and holy men who exist within them. Workers piece together shards of statues and give voice to the stories carved upon the stones (if they can agree on what each image means, that is). Monks meditate in bullet-marked temples and narrate the histories of their gods. A farmer tours the murals with his fighting cock, revisiting the glories of old kings. For this “lost” city’s inhabitants, Angkor’s tales are never finished, its sculptures never silent. Intermingling their stories as subtly as a whisper, Panh creates a document of modern Cambodia, his camera carving out new legends with each story told.Read More »

A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.Read More »

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine – only to risk arrest by British troops.Read More »

The story of a man who has memorized the Holy Quran. In this movie, life of the famous poet from Shiraz (Hafez Shirazi) is presented symbolically.Read More »