Han has worked as a watch person at the Opera of Beijing. Now he is retired and spends his days feeling bored and useless. One day, in the park he meets a group of retired men who share with him the passion for theatre. So Han decides to found a club where they can meet to act or sing. Once the club is open, problems start: everybody wants to act in his own way. Han finds hi...
A night in the life of Isaac, a jewish Russian man who survived the nazi holocaust, and Sophie, a catholic Polish woman. They are both refugees. Since thirty years they live in a garret in London, where Isaac has created a sort of maze of doors on which he has engraved and painted the symbols of their past. In this space, trapped in the history and yet in a time-free dimens...
The movie is based on Georg Büchner's drama and is set in the contemporary Hungary. The disturbed main character, Woyzeck is a railroad guardian and lives in the shack by the railway. Maria, a restless woman, surrenders to the call of senses during a dropout party. Every element of the landscape seems immersed in a time free dimension and it is suspended in the existential s...
Lisbon, 1994, a winter day. A forty years old woman spends the eight hours before the birth of her first child in desperation. Her partner, much younger that her, invents tragic, comic, caothic, crazy stories which correspond to the passing of the hours. The stories alleviate her pain.
1972. Gilles and Christine are attractive, sexually active teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shop-lifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. As the party is winding down, Gilles and C...
Asao can't deal with relationships with women. One morning, after having dreamt about a beautiful woman having sex in an expensive car, he convinces himself that women love men who own a car. So he decides to buy one, but contrary to all his expectations, he keeps being refused and the car crashes against a truck. After several humiliating and unsuccessful tries, Asao meets ...
Xiaodou, a shy young man, starts working as a postman after a colleague gets fired and arrested because he was keeping some of the mails. Pushed by the will of straighten out the society's faults, he himself will also end up doing the same and will start maneuvering the events of some people's lives, whose private affairs are now known to him.
Director Romeo Castellucci, one of the founders of the Raffaello Sanzio society, tells through the visionary short film Brentano, the story of a young man "who has no desire to live anymore and decides to escape". Based on the homonym work of prose by Robert Walser, the film is shot as a sort of second optic skin around the character who remains disconnected by the same plac...
1940. Escaping from Italy, Maria and her boyfriend Olmo, a political activist, arrive to London where they hope to get asylum, but when Italy enters the war, Olmo gets arrested by the British authorities. Maria, alone, will be helped by Beatrice, who offers her protection and refugee on her boat.
In occasion of the third centenary of the city of Rochefort, a fair is coming to the town square. The twin sisters Delphine and Solange Garnier won't miss the chance to find the man of their dreams. The twins' mother, Yvonne, owns a café in the center of town, and pines for a fiancé she left impulsively ten years before in order to focus on her work in the café. A well made...
