Historias de Cronopios y de Famas

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.

Il était une fois... « La Conspiration du Caire »

Mark Tully examines the conflict between India and Pakistan over the disputed province, Jammu and Kashmir, and how the political affairs between India and Pakistan has affected the people of the valley.

On the border, the line as principle of property and belonging reaches an extreme dimension where it physically defines the sphere of its relations. Those who transgress it reconstruct these imaginary lines on a daily basis, redefining the traditional geography and occupying the non-spaces where others live in a temporary form of existence. These others, the non-citizens, are phantasmtic, exchangeable parts of a flexible market. Made invisible, they are permanently controlled persons. Under the pretext of a greater civilian security, they are kept clear from the public spaces reserved for the citizens with rights and pushed into non-public spaces, which are run by state and military surveillance, multinational operations servicing a European market and non-governmental organisations.

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.

In the Araucanía Region, an area marked by historical relations between Mapuche and non-Mapuche people, the shooting of a police officer results in the death of a young Mapuche man. On the other hand, a community member who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison has been on a hunger strike for over one hundred days. In the background, we have the experience of Aniceto Norin, a Longko who has spent five years in prison for the crime of "Terrorist Threat," whose account allows us to understand his thoughts and the impact of assuming his role and his Mapuche identity.

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.

Arya (26), a Javanese man from a dating agency who was in the middle of a matchmaking session, was interrupted by an elder dancing community who were karaoking with loud music. Jojo (23), Arya's coworker, suggests buying a silencer, but they don't have enough cash to buy one. Soon, an old Chinese man, Yongki (65) signs up as a client who is willing to pay extra to find his daughter Leoni (26) a Chinese match, who turns out to be Arya's girlfriend.

This is a film about confronted parallel memories of a village that brutally changed twice its name, population and its own history. The village that got trapped in a vicious circle of never ending traumas of the 20th century.

Momoko, who attends a special school, is both mentally and physically disabled. Every morning she becomes peevish because she can't go to the ordinary school with her twin brother Riki.

Hundreds of years into the future, endless wars have isolated and besieged the last pocket of civilization on this planet, thanks to the Mayor of the City the enemy is kept outside, and production levels are at an all time high. Then a spy plane arrives, but is it really a spy?

Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, 'Caldera' glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death.

About a fickle crow who changed the objects of her hobbies without thinking about their feelings.

A cunning fox tricks a wolf again and again.

Once a potter made a pot that could laugh. Whoever takes it in their hands immediately starts laughing.

Schoolchildren fantasize about what they would do if they had a magic wand brought to life.

A modern fairy tale about how a boy, who was called a coward, decided to take revenge on the guys with the help of a magic pill, but soon realized that being vindictive is not good and judging others based on first impressions is unfair.

Based on the fairy tale by E. Serova about the Little Mouse, who saved the forest dwellers from fear.