A taxi driver meets Marlene, a girl from the provinces who´s lost in a brothel. He immediately decides to protect her and let´s her stay in his house. Slowly his fatherly instincts give way to a strange hidden passion. Finally he gives up living in the trunk of his taxi while Marlene states that she wants to live with him forever.
El zapato chino is the first long feature by Christian Sanchez. It was made during the Pinochet dictatorship and tries to capture the surreal and confusing atmosphere of that period. It was realized i in a clandestine way, but it is said that Pinochet himself wanted to see the film after it´s completion.Read More »

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‘Barney Morgan is a reporter who works for a French journal. His editor-in-chief Rupert finds his lover Alice murdered. His boss is the main suspect but Barney doesn’t believe his boss could possibly be a murderer. Subsequently he tries to prove the man’s innocence.
Barney suspects Alice’s husband and gathers enough circumstantial evidence to make his point. But the widower’s lawyer can prove he didn’t do it either. Barney concedes he was wrong and commences a new investigation.’
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Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances – captured fleetingly in everything from Mr. Bean to The Elephant Man – the film is a lyrical journey through popular culture, and a haunting study of life lived out of focus.

As a background artist, Jill Goldston has worked on countless films. This collage of fifty years of cinema and television history is a tribute to her and to all the figures in the background without whom those in the foreground would be unable to take centre stage.Read More »

When a ladies’ man disappears, a string of beautiful women go looking for him, including his ex-wife, his new fiancée and a sexy private eye.Read More »

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“Eternal Light” (“Amžinoji šviesa”) (1988) – Lithuanian feature film, one of the most remarkable cinema works of the country during the last decade. In the story of Rimantas Šavelis the film director Puipa returns to the village, roots, to the end of fifties – the period, traditional in the Lithuanian cinema. Here, contrary to the films of such type, Puipa shows the post-war period not in a publicistic, but a lyrical and subtle way. Though weapons can be seen in the hands of the characters, shots are not resounding here, and the general plot is limited to the emotional relationship among four main characters. A land-surveyor Anicetas (actor Vidas Petkevičius) has an aversion to his persecutor Pranė (actress Daiva Stubraitė) and marries the loved Amilė (actress Virginija Kelmelytė) from the other village.Read More »

A man awakens from a two-month-long coma. Total amnesia. A bullet fired point blank. He doesn’t remember anything. He’s told that he had a wife and a son. They’ve been killed. He’s revealed his past identity by the Colonel, who insists they are best friends. He’s a Major of the Military Security Agency. An inspector from the State Security Agency appears affirming that he has information on people responsible for the massacre of his family. The Major is discharged from the hospital. He tries to patch together a normal life but is confronted with emptiness and despair. His only chance of discovering his identity and the assassin of his family is to accept the game that the Inspector has set up for him with the Businessman, the Mafioso and the Politician. He agrees… Discovers that he was a war criminal… Realizes who took a shot at him… Finds out who killed his family… Discovers the Fourth Man!Read More »

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Writer-director Michael Kang makes his feature debut with the coming-of-age comedy, The Motel. Newcomer Jeffrey Chyau stars as Ernest Chin, a chubby 13 year-old Chinese-American boy whose mother (Jade Wu) runs a sleazy motel in upstate New York. The clientele of The Motel are predominantly prostitutes and their johns, which spurs Ernest’s budding sexual curiosity. When he’s not cleaning rooms, eavesdropping on guests, avoiding the local bully, or tormenting his little sister Katie (Alexis Chin), Ernest harbors a crush on Christine (Samantha Futerman), who works at a nearby Chinese restaurant. Ernest has entered a writing contest at school with a story about his unhappy life at The Motel, and won an honorable mention. Read More »

Café Odeon
At the Coffeeshop at the Bellevue in Zurich, where artists, Poets and easy women hang out, Leni shows up. A girl from the country side. Her husband is in jail, and she is looking for her sister Anni. Since the latter is taking off to Milan with her “friend”, Leni lives in her apartment. She frequently meets the high school teacher Prof Kartmann. When he begins to withdraw from her because his wife begins to suspect an affair, Leni takes up a position in the local Café. She decides to return to her village in oder to wait there for her husband, who, in the meantime, has escaped from the penitentiary.

A Swiss film in the style of the italian Neo-Realism.Read More »

When a Mongolian nomadic family’s newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.Read More »