Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, better known as Witkacy, enivsages the future horrors of the Polish nation, as embodied by Stalin and Hitler, and the world collapsing into chaos.
A young boy wanders Eastern Europe during World War II.
After the downing of the Ukrainian plane, the crew members find themselves in the occupied territory of Donbas and are forced to get out of there alone, for which they will have to turn the "double Immelmann" with their lives. The mother of one of the crew members, who is trying to help her son escape from captivity.
In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.
Shot in Kyiv, Bucha and Gostomel in May 2022, the film shows eyewitnesses of the beginning of the full-scale invasion and the following Russian occupation. The protagonists share their impressions of those days and their thoughts about the present and future.
Constantin di Bessarabia
Moskau 1941 - Stimmen am Abgrund
A sunny Saturday afternoon in Zurich. In the middle of a crowded square a businessman is lying on a bench, seemingly asleep. Someplace else, a teenager is longing for appreciation. A commuter is fighting the ticket machine. The film shows ten tableaux of everyday situations in the city. The people in them are confronted with small or big problems. Each one of them is a Sisyphos, endlessly rolling the little stones of daily life up the mountain.
Ayumi Ishida won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress.
A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.
Hierba salvaje
Pakistan, 1978. Lenny, a rockstar from the Christian community, is offered the chance to reinvent himself as a state-sanctioned singer. With Islamic fervor gripping the nation, he must decide if he can change along with the times.
A woman who is afraid of the sea decides to stay on the beach to listen to the words of the sea
Newly arrived on a Burnley housing estate is twelve-year-old Chloe, who, with her alcoholic single mother and abusive older brother, has been re-housed for the umpteenth time. When Chloe finds a kindred spirit in Lee, a young boy with a similarly dysfunctional family, she sees an opportunity to escape from her mother and brother.
Following Alif who missed Maya, her ex-girlfriend who right know is working in New York. When rain coming to his city, he decided to talk to her again by calling her in the afternoon rain.
Pengki manage to sneak into the house of the Mafia Boss, who then escapes with a pendant and also evidence of the list of women trafficking.
Reza and Angela are trapped in differences in beliefs and culture. Reza is Moslem and of Arab descent married Angela is Chinese descent.
Vanya is engaged in website design and makes good money on it. But money does not make him happy; his teddy bear Toto does. One morning Vanya notices a plush squirrel in a passing car. It seems to him that she is crying, apparently due to the fact that others do not notice that there is consciousness inside the squirrel. The squirrel could be a great couple for Totoshka and add a lot of joy to the life of Vanya and Totoshka. They find out that the squirrel was taken away from Minsk, and they set off in pursuit.
The massive scandal comes to light through a father's unwavering search for the truth behind the sudden death of his family.
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.