When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman’s husband blames himself for his wife’s straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.Read More »
The film is based on travelogues of XV century Russian traveler Afanasy Nikitin called “A journey beyond the three seas”Read More »
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Called deep into the forest to help search for a fallen meteorite, a group of interns instead discover an isolated cabin with a dead body inside–and a lethal gang of drug-runners there to protect their investment. But the dead body has risen again, and it holds a dark secret that will soon reveal itself…
Little do they know, the meteorite has brought with it an organism that can emulate anything it comes into contact with. Soon, their transportation is cut off…nobody knows exactly who’s who…and no one is quite sure how to kill something that they can’t even find!Read More »
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After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.Read More »
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Double screen film of six children playing on the street below (three sets of twins). Filmed through two adjacent cameras, one with colour film and one with black and white. When presented, two projectors are used so that the images appear side by side allowing the children to move through the frame lines.Read More »
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Johnny dances to a song by James Brown. The pants come down, the shirt comes off, the thing comes up, the stuff comes out. Won first prize for best short at the 2nd Amsterdam Wet Dream Festival.Read More »
In China, Xuie lives an impoverished life with her father who is far from helpful. She is living in Chongqing, the city of 40 million people. She works as a teacher, teaching Mandarin to foreigners. Even though she is from Chongqing, she doesn’t speak in Chongqing dialect, rather talking in Mandarin which is the standard language of mainland China. One day, her father gets arrested because of prostitution and she is called to the police. One policeman comes closer to her and her mind is taken by him. In the crowded and busy streets of industrial developing city, Chongqing, Xuie dreams to escape from her painful and hopeless life.Read More »
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The traumatic story of an old bourgeoise in Mexico City, his relationship with his crazy grandmother, his sexually troubled past and his sick crush on the young and beautiful maid of the house.Read More »
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Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.Read More »