MILITANTROPOS (lat. «milit» – soldier; gr. «antropos» – human) – a persona adopted by humans when entering a state of war. Militantropos chooses to accept war as the one and only option to exist.Read More »

Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn’t made a film in 24 years (he can’t get past the censors). He’s working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife’s death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece’s husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that’s left?Read More »

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Jane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May’s roommate Queenie needs a large amount of money to bail her twin sister out, May suggests stealing the blackmail money Jane is keeping locked away in her mansion for now…Read More »

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling “king of the deck”, and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. “The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage” – Julio BressaneRead More »

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Kolka is a small fisherman village on the Baltic coast. Being almost thirty but still living with their mothers, three friends spend their days drinking beer, killing time and picking up fights with the neighboring village.
One of them, Andzha, is about to get married. Being busy with “settling his life”, he doesn’t notice that his fiance Simona starts to doubt her feelings. When his elder brother Guido returns from the sea, the brothers now have to adapt again to living under one roof. Meanwhile his marriage plans fail. The brothers overcome their anatgonism when they dicover their illusions about their up-coming marriage and women in general.Read More »

The love between a prostitute/vaudeville performer and her younger rent-boy/actor lover is tested when another old lady lures the boy with more wealth to offer.Read More »

The vine bore fruit and it’s harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of a landscape. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwaves is burning.Read More »

One of the best-known gems of Latvian cinematography and the most distinctive film by the master director Herz Frank. For ten whole minutes, the camera never leaves the face of a young boy watching a puppet show, and through this child’s soul the viewer experiences the struggle between good and evil by observing the boy’s unmediated emotions, which make him ten minutes older, more experienced and emotionally mature.Read More »

Paris, La Belle Epoque, at the end of the XIXth Century: Cavalier, a second-rate actor, discovers a gorgeous talented girl who performs on stage. He wants to be her Pygmalion and he begins to teach her acting. It’s not long before the babe realizes she is much more gifted than her teacher, a not-so-handsome man who has fallen in love with her. Besides, both met the count of Ligny, a buck who makes a fool of the Belle’s mate and begins to seduce her.Read More »