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: – 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.…
We start this week with six new medium-length films for this Monday afternoon. At 6 pm, in our first screening, we will have ‘Petit matin’ and ‘Annalyn’. In the last session, at 9 pm we will see ‘Océan’ and ‘My shoes’. Besides that, we would like to give a special recommendation for today: the second…
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.…
A child pretends to go to school but hides underneath a small bridge while an adolescent waits for the bus with tear-filled eyes. A woman picks them both up in her car and, scared, they hide in the shopping mall in the outskirts of the city. Before losing everything (Avant que de tout perdre) is…
Four friends organize a trip to a massive music festival in the countryside. At the access gates the tension grows and chaos breaks out, affecting those waiting at the door. One of the four friends is already inside, oblivious to what it happening outsite while the festival’s security guards are unable to control the situation.…
During the summer of 1979, 10 year old Jean discovers, close to the ocean, that his parents no longer love each other. Jean lives through the end of love, life, and, in some ways, childhood. Everything that sustains his childhood universe crumbles during the holidays. It might be that Jean has realized too soon that…
Last year, a few weeks before the Israel Film Festival opening, the advertisement posters that announced the twenty-ninth edition of the event had been torn down or painted over in white in almost every neighborhood of the capital. The poster portrayed a young girl riding a bicycle that harmlessly revealed her knees while pedaling. Nonetheless,…
A hold-up at a small betting house at the outskirts of the city can seem something easy for an experienced criminal, but for Mousse, the main character of this film, everything will get complicated due to his damn principles. The most important horse race is taking place and Mousse takes advantage of the chaos in…
Three friends, after a big party in the country house of one of them, decide to take their dogs and go out for a walk. Dawn is coming and, affected by alcohol and drugs, a series of small events take place that will end up in a mysterious disappearance. Short, upfront and simple, Gabriel Azorin’s…
So it goes tells the story of Elli, a young girl from Helsinki’s metropolitan area that has never left her country. Her only dream is to travel and see more of the world than the dark neighborhood that surrounds her. One day she meets Heze and, after spending all her savings paying off debts, sees…
Maurice is a tiger-penguin that lives his beastly life in a jungle when two emissaries of the South Pole arrive. They have been guided there to ask the “Great Tiger Warrior” to liberate their people from the evil walruses. Maurice agrees to do so and creates a commando with his jungle friends. In the South…
Agnes doesn’t feel fulfilled. She is bored of her relationship with her girlfriend and the work she does for her father doesn’t satisfy her. Agnes longs for a change. When her father introduces her to his new wife Annalyn whom he has met during his holidays in the Philipines, both women will start a great…
Videoboy is a free adaptation of the story of this same title by Norwegian writer Tore Renberg. The story takes place in the late 80s and narrates how the friendship between two thirteen-year old kids, Hasse and Paol, is tested when they accept to visit Jan Inge, a strange adolescent that is famous for his…
In a small village in the countryside lives Nader, a nine year old kid that loves to run. Pollito doesn’t run for a reason, he runs because he needs to, because that’s what he lives for. One day, when Ramadan is near it’s end and he is shopping for new clothes for the Aïd party…
It’s 1991. A massive wave of Russian Ashkenazi immigrants arrives to Israel. Mish is 12 years old and records his arrival to the Promised Land with his video camera. The traumatic experience of immigration becomes absurd when the family’s grandaunt dies during the flight just before landing. Misha’s parents will have to confront the busy and…
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