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A child has a fantastic dream. After playing with toy soldiers, the child dreams about them and identifies with them, forgetting about his child games and friendships. In the dream, the toy soldiers get together and rebel against the child and win. The child awakens and realizes that friendships and child games can not be replaced by anything.Read More »
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Among the country boys who go in the army is the recently married young man, Damjan, the only son of Vitan, the miller. The young bride stays in her father-in-law’s house… days keep passing for both of them. They bear and share the hard work in the mill as well as on the whole estate. During the long and monotonous nights the young Irina looks forward to the return of her husband Damjan. The frequent visits while passing by of Mecheto, a man called the Little Bear, who is both a churchman and a salesman, disturb Irina. She cannot stand him because of his inappropriate jokes about her youth, her prettiness and nonetheless loneliness. …Read More »
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David Wojnarowicz is recognized as one of the most potent voices of his generation, and his singular artistic achievements place him firmly within a long-standing American tradition of the artist as visionary, rebel and public figure. Art historian and critic John Carlin likens Wojnarowicz to the great American 19th century poet Walt Whitman, the preeminent celebrator of individual freedom. Carlin likens Whitman’s verbal poetry, which was inspired by the rhythms of New York slang and the rhetoric of American journalism, to Wojnarowicz’s visual poetry, which emerged from social history, popular culture, and his own dreams and visions. …In his rebellious struggle against conformity, materialism and mechanization, one can see the formative influence of the 1950s Beat writers on Wojnarowicz’s art. Just as the Beats found America in the 1950s to be a dehumanized prison of exclusionary mainstream values, Wojnarowicz found America in the 1980s to be in a similar ethical state of emergency. His allegiance to the Beats, especially Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs also can be seen in his profound concern with spiritual matters.Read More »
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A clumsy, easy-going but tough restaurant chef witnesses a murder of a cop. This leads him to a world of trouble, as the killer seeks to silence him. Luckily, the vengeful partner of the dead cop is there to help him.Read More »
The story of a young girl (Sachiko Hidari) who moves from a farm to the city of her dreams – Tokyo. Once settled as a maid, she realizes that the superiority of city life is only relative. Her employer’s son flees from Tokyo to the farm to see all the wonderful things the girl has told him about. When her employers go to pick up their son, the girl realizes that city folk are as ignorant of rural life as she was of city life.Read More »
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband’s grieving rage.Read More »
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank – by gleefully seducing her way to the top.Read More »
Coming from the heart of the Belarusian Rebellion, an intimate portrait of a young woman. When her regular self enters emotional turmoil, her seifuku-wearing magical witch alter ego is keeping the fighting spirit ablaze.
An intimate portrait of a young girl leading a double life. When she finds herself in emotional turmoil in the midst of isolation, her seifuku-clad magical alter ego keeps her fighting spirit alive.Read More »
Ilse/Elza (Alice Hechy) is into a local painter but her father wants her to marry Count van Trutwitz or some American.
Two of her friends pretend to be these would-be suitors with intentionally disastrous consequences.Read More »