Rome, 1736. Abramo Cajvani and Angeluccio della Riccia, both Jewish, are reported for breaking and entering. According to the law of that time, they are sentenced to death. Routinely, the night before the execution, the condemned ones are assisted by the Brothers of San Giovanni Decollato Archconfraternity, who, in Christian compassion, waited on the last moments of those w...
Anton Buttinski, un marinaio polacco, sbarca a New York sperando di poter essere ospitato per qualche notte presso il “figlio dell’amico di sua madre”, un certo Wadeck. Questi è un cocainomane paranoico che divide l’appartamento con Barbara, una giovane francese. L’ingenuo Anton, immigrato irregolare, è determinanto ad aiutare Barb...
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960's housing development project in the Netherlands. Thomas is twelve years old. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news about the liberation of the Belgian Congo. Thomas becomes fond of Lumumba, one...
The director has lost his brother, his father and his mother and tells about these three deaths in this autobiographical film. A senseless death, the one of his brother Armand, caught in a fire during a party. A heartrending death, the one of his father, who has to submit to a devastating cancer. A conscious death, the one of his mother, overcome with grief by the death of o...
Kalmán Furtek, a worker in charge of feeding the beasts in a zoo, loves his job and animals. He lives according to a system of values which he has built thanks to his close relationship to the beasts. The arrival of an helper will unsettle his ordinate life.
Nikola is ten years old and two parents who are constantly fighting. His father is a music teacher and sometimes plays music for marriages. His mother, in order to escape the monotony of an housewife's life, has recently started to earn some money working as a personal assistant for lonely old people. In need of help to accomplish all her tasks, she involves her son, who soo...
Claudia, Jürgen and Michael - all of them twenty years old - have decided to kill a leading politician. They organize a robbery, to get enough money to buy weapons and explosives. They have rented an apartment from where they can study the habits and movements of the victim. They prepare every tiny detail, but something will not go as planned.
Sky, plants. Some children play pretending to shoot the planes landing. A pilot calls home: no answer. Miguel is taking a bath: the day after tomorrow it is his 7th birthday. Miguel has never met his father. The pilot lives in the next-door apartment and he argues often with his wife. Miguel receives some birthday presents, amongst which a kite. His father is released for go...
In a typical Latin-American cabaret of a poor quartier of Panama, singers, comedians, conjurers and acrobats perform for a public composed by longshoremen, unemployed, workers and poor people. They are "those of the Barrio", the ones living in the quartier where everybody lives like in any other working-class district, dancing, dreaming, loving and working to the b...
Autumn 1943. A kid follows his mom on the mountains where a group of partigians is hiding.
