1980s

The only Azeri feature-length animated film made during the Soviet Union. A mix of traditional and cutout animation. An animated opera.Read More »

Former FBI profiler Will Graham (William Petersen, To Live and Die in L.A., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) reluctantly returns to his old job to track a horrific serial killer known as “The Tooth Fairy”, But in order to get into the mind of this maniac, Graham must face another: Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox, X-Men 2, RED), the imprisoned psychiatrist whose own insanity almost cost Graham his life… and whose insights into “The Tooth Fairy”, could prove as dangerous as the killer himself.Read More »

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Christiane from the GDR and Hatem from Syria meet while studying in Moscow. They love each other and have a child together. During their studies they overcome many difficulties together, but now the question arises as to what will become of them afterwards. Hatem explains to Christiane that, as a woman, she has no job opportunities in her profession in his home country. She suggests that Hatem go with her to the GDR. But he refuses – on the grounds that he cannot betray his country. The two separate.Read More »

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In 1802, Alexandre De Humbolt and Aimé Bonpland stayed in Ecuador to study the topography of the country. Their goal is to climb the Chimborazo volcano, reaching 6,267 meters and considered at the time as the highest peak in the world.Read More »

In search of housing, a student finds an ad about renting an apartment for a very reasonable fee – and immediately agrees to a woman who recently buried her son to comply with all her conditions. The young man moves into the apartment and gradually becomes a witness of incomprehensible mystical phenomena.Read More »

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A film by Paulo Rocha about Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

“I tried to film that period of his paintings in a different style, as if the camera was a brush in Amadeo’s hand with his colors and shapes”, Paulo Rocha

In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does a surprising “collage” about the Portuguese modernism, centered in Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Between the reproduction of the Orpheu years and the Futuristic Manifest, the installation of a exhibition in Gulbenkian and a juggling onirism, Paulo Rocha offers one of the most singular and fascinating visions of that world of colors and metals, so longing as anarchist, so soaring as insecure.Read More »

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This film, made as a “twin” of “A Ilha dos Amores”, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the great Portuguese writer who lived in the Far East. Verbal testimony, photographs, manuscripts, images of Lisbon, Macao, Kobe and Tokushima in Moraes’ time are set side by side with “A Ilha dos Amores” and with de Moraes’ writings. The director, Paulo Rocha, visited places where Moraes was still remembered, interviewed the writers descendants, consulted archives, rummaged through memories, appointment books, postcards, diaries and calendars from the private life of the 19th century. And above all he set out on a new journey, from Lisbon to Macao to Kobe until he reached Tokushima, where Moraes lived through the final ruin of his life and where Rocha tracks down, between the city and the cemetery, the living presence of places and the memories of individuals.Read More »

During a hike in the mountains, a group of scout girls treat themselves to lunch. Someone, however, takes one of their hard-boiled eggs. It turns out that the culprit is the devil Pipe, who eventually successes in scaring away not only the girls and their teacher, but also several tourists. The hairy Pipe also steals a birthday cake baked by a father for his ten-year-old son called Bi, who moves on a wheelchair. Everyone thinks that this is a weasel’s doing. But on the morning TV news, they announce that there have been sightings of a mysterious creature.Read More »

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Fausto and Gilda have been married for years and love each other deeply. But Gilda dies, leaving Fausto alone with their 8-year-old daughter and her governess. Shaken, he retreats to his country house, only visited by his female doctor. He starts being plagued every night by wet dreams, visions, and hallucinations of women and his wife, who insistently asks him to join her.Read More »