A lonely princess and a poor cobbler fall in love while trying to retrieve three magical orbs that were stolen by a bumbling thief, all while outwitting a powerful sorcerer as adventure and comedic pop culture references abound.
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Acclaimed master animator Richard Williams spent the better part of three decades working on what was to be his masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler.Read More »
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Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.
“There’s something a little bit magic about Julita, something of the fairytale” (Variety). Matriarch Julita’s three childhood wishes have been granted: lots of kids, a monkey, and a castle. But after the financial crisis hits Spain the family loses their castle but not their sense of humour and family unity; and through the wealth of hoarded objects she has accumulated over 81 years, a rich family portrait is revealed.Read More »
An obese Police Inspector traumatized by a childhood incident falls in love with a murder suspect.Read More »
The romantic reunion of Ben Santhanaraj and Suzanne Hopper is thwarted when Suzanne’s boss asks her to work during their holiday road trip.Read More »
A fiancée lost on the streets of Istanbul, a man who sets out to find the truth. Escape or love? The fate of the duo is written in Istanbul.
1 win, 13 nominations.Read More »
Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep?
The American minimalist poet Robert Lax (1915-2000) is praised for his originality and spirituality. He was a companion of the painter Ad Reinhardt and the religious philosopher and monk Thomas Merton, who had a strong influence on the poets of the beat generation. After decades of a nomadic life between America and Europe, working as a screenwriter in Hollywood, as a film critic in New York and as a clown in an Italian itinerant circus, he has lived withdrawn for 30 years on the Greek island of Patmos. In his poetry, Robert Lax pursues a maximum compression of language – to the point where only individual words and syllables remain which represent the essence of language. His artistic concept of reduction, in which a pause becomes as important as the things said, makes Lax a kindred spirit of the American composer John Cage. The present films are the outcome of a long-standing friendship between Robert Lax and the filmmakers Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel.Read More »
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“To live in Vienna, you either have to be cynical or stupid,” says the director’s alter ego at the end of the semi-documentary feature Slow Summer. A summary as temperamental as the film which deals with personal states of mind, the filmmaker’s very own existential entanglements one of which is crucially the stranger’s view of the semi-familiar city of Vienna but yet aims at an insight that goes beyond the private. This is only one of many self-reflective double entendres in a work rather unusual in Austrian cinema.Read More »
In a village in the High Atlas Mountains, at the crossroad between tradition and change, two sisters experience the last seasons of childhood.Read More »
A couple of drifters, fresh from prison, the harsh streets of Tehran, and a dangerous game of “Truth or Dare” come together one deadly night of desperation and hopelessness. The older drifter (Davoud Rashidi) challenges his younger, desolate friend (Behrouz Vossoughi) to a foolhardy bet which he willingly accepts. A gripping, scaring drama, this movie follows two lost souls bent on self-destruction set against the cold backdrop of a city without compassion.Read More »