PARENTHÈSE
Three old friends about 50 years old are forced to spend time with much younger ladies on a nice Mediterranean Island.
Three old friends about 50 years old are forced to spend time with much younger ladies on a nice Mediterranean Island.
Ze – a 50 year old alcoholic – works in the port of Lisbon where he loads and unloads containers. Ze never left his neighborhood and is hiding his savings so that one day he’ll be able to board one of the huge cruise ships he sees everyday. When his jealous wife steals his money,…
Through Jean’s eyes, a ten-year-old child, we view the daily routine of a family during the late seventies. It’s summer, and by the ocean Jean uncovers the ambiguity of life, its violence and the weakness of men.
What could be easier than robbing a small tobacco shop on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash.
A close group of friends celebrate the Swedish Midsummer Night, tradition on a Frisian Island. For the first time an outsider is invited. As with all friendships, in this thirty-something group some secrets are shared and others remain untold.
Lucas, Jorge and Rafa are three inseparable, life-long friends, spending the weekend in the countryside. After a long night of drinking, when the new day comes, they pick up four greyhounds and set out to hunt.
“The legend says that only the Great Tiger Warrior and his Seven Freedom Soldiers will be able to free our town from the tyranny of the evil walruses… We come to humbly ask you to save our people”.
Virgile and his brother Lazare are on a trip which is abruptly interrupted. Another trip begins: Virgile is in the hearse that transports his brother’s casket.
‘So it goes’ is a story about a working class women called Elli who has never travelled outside Finland- She will either get a cruise abroad or love. But not both.
Three kids alone in a house; two brothers and their little sister. Each one attends his own business. But when the little brother’s rabbit is sent away in a rocket and disappears forever, their relationships turn sour. Is it possible to go back in time and mend things?
A group of close friends and family members from South-America gather together in a small apartment in Amsterdam for a farewell party. Diego will return to Chile together with his son after visiting his brother Pablo for a month. Pablo has lived in The Netherlands since he fled his country in the late 70’s.
One night a hamster called Przemek falls down from a high floor of old house. Przemek is a beloved pet of two elderly people – Maria and Wraclaw. The shocked couple find Przemek on the roof of their car parked outside the building. It is barely alive…
Four friends visit an outdoor festival. In the queue mass panic arises. Their relationships determine how they react during the chaos.
Two strangers unexpectedly meet at an airport. He mistakenly confuses her to be his assigned driver. She enchanted by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong.
In a farmhouse of a devastated region, a young man awakens with no memory of the past. An old woman sits at his bedside and nurses him back to health. She reveals to him that he is the sole survivor of a ‘Bloodletting’.
Agnes is not satisfied with her life. She wants a change, but her relationship with her single parent father and dominant girlfriend inhibit her to do something about it. When the father introduces his new wife, Annalyn, everything changes.
A Young boy pretends to go to school and hides under a small bridge. A teenager in tears waits at a bus stop. A woman picks them up and drives to the parking lot of a supermarket. They step out of the car, the woman takes a big trash bag out of the trunk. All…