Lembo has fallen in love with Liisu, a beautiful young girl. They both live in a small rural zone in Estonia, where vodka and dreams about happy marriages in the city come together. Lembo has decided to declare his love to Liisu, although her family doesn’t think that a boy like him, a bit dreamy,…
Paweł Burak is a very frustrated Theology student, incapable of seeing the positive side of life because he doesn’t have a girlfriend, money or any idea of what to do with his future. On top of that, his parents hate each other and are about to file for divorce. His life is a mess. One…
“Payment is in advance. It’s non-negotiable. And… you’ll have to be careful because it will probably hurt me. I will put a pillow underneath. And… some towels. And there will be no oral sex of any type, or anal penetration. No kisses either. The least possible amount of touching. Please be as efficient as possible.…
(…) Be sorry for the others Who fidget complain Who constantly rearrange their lives Like furniture. (C. B.) Janusz, the main character of this 30-minute film, works in a furniture shop. One day, when he is trying to show the clients the quality of some pillows, one of them is destroyed after he hits it…
In the fifth edition of La Cabina, a ridiculously humorous medium-length film in English by a Norwegian director made it to the Official Selection. The audience, quite perplexed, was divided between admiring and slandering its director, Jeorge Elkin. That medium-length film was called Wind Over Lake. Once again, a peculiar Norwegian story comes to La…
Games (Gry), by the Polish Maciej Marczewski, is a fictional medium-length film based on the radio play The Elevator, by the Polish playwright, screenwriter and poet Ireneusz Iredyński. This short story takes place in an elevator where two strangers are trapped. They both decide to play an imaginary game about their first romantic encounter and…
The president of the USA looks for porn on the internet while he speaks on the phone with one of his drones sent to Afghanistan. In the meantime, the French ambassadress of this country is trying to negotiate the disarmament of a nomad in the region of Kuchi while her daughter Cleo is kidnapped by…
A hotel-room late at night: a young man is carried from the room unconscious on a stretcher. A woman and a man remain in the room where all three of them obviously have spent some time together. Only then, when the ambulance attendants have left with the young man, do the other two realize that there…
It has been a couple of years since Élias abandoned France to travel to Barcelona in search of a better future. His life is shaken between the fear of getting HIV and a confusing past of which he expects nothing. Élias works as a male prostitute in the streets of Barcelona but his life takes…
A character dies inside a film. The actor that performs his role, whose name in Semblante, becomes suspect of an impossible crime: having killed himself. While the film blends with reality becoming a real thriller, Semblante will have to prove his innocence to survive and save the woman he loves. A daring project by Pedro…
A human brain is artificially kept alive by the scientists in a lab. Through the subjective vision of Ypsillon (the brain’s name), the audience becomes a witness of everything that happens in the lab. With black humor and with focus on the human relations, we follow Ypsilon’s path from mere consciousness to the development of…
Romy, a young au-pair, decides to visit her mother after two years of having no contact with her. Her mother, an aged prostitute that scarcely leaves her clients satisfied, initially shuns her, but eventually decides to make up for the lost time. The two women resume their relationship, even though the past and the memories…
Paul is fourteen-years-old and has a passion for motorbikes that has led him to neglect his studies. One morning, he asks his friends to take care of his motorbike while he goes to a meeting with his teachers and, at his return, the bike is gone and nobody is able to tell him who has…
Poland. The communist regime makes thousands of citizens choose exile in search of better opportunities. Anna is seven years old and her mother has decided to emigrate, taking her and her sister Agnieszka to Occidental Germany to reunite with her husband. Anna thinks that what awaits her there are glittering automatic candy machines and a…
At today’s programme: – 5.00 PM: A New Mourning – 6.00 PM: Between Us + Living Also Cry – 7.30 PM: Midsummer Night + Feux – 9.00 PM: Bowy Is Inside + Lazare
At today’s programme: – 6.00 PM: All that you can’t leave behind + So it goes – 7.30 PM: The hamster + Videoboy – 9.00 PM: Midlife cruise. Presented by its director, Bernard Tanguy. Today we have a very varied film evening with three different comedies: the black humour of So it goes (Korsoteoria), the tender story of The Hamster and his sad…
Roberto has just been retired due to his age and his accute diabetes. With his pension and severance pay he decides to learn how to drive and buys a red van to travel together with his wife Hilda, to whom he owes a trip of a lifetime to a town in which they both spent…
At today’s programme: – 6.00 PM: Océan + My Shoes – 7.30 PM: Petit Matin + Annalyn – 9.00 PM: A New Mourning + Just Before Losing Everything We highly recommend the 9 PM session: a great combo composed by a Canadian drama and a French thriller.
At dawn, during those calm hours when everyone is still sleeping, a man picks some flowers from his garden, preparing a beautiful bouquet with a pink dahlia in the center. When he returns home, his wife has passed away. This is the beginning of the silent and tender Petit Matin, by French director Christophe Loizillon.…
Virgile is travelling with his brother by car when they have an accident. Virgile’s brother dies and a funeral has to be organized. Virgile’s guilt – he was driving at the time of the accident – is critical. His family has decided to exclude him from the funeral but Virgile, still injured, has other plans.…
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