While looking for new tenants for his seaside villa, surrounded by a big garden, Andrea Ricoli, a 50-years old architect, meets Rossana, a newly 40-years old, anaesthesiologist at the local hospital, and married to Riccardo, ten years younger than her: he's an aspiring writer, temporarily employed as a salesman at a local shoe store. During an eventful New Year's Eve, Andrea introduces Riccardo to a Maghreb restaurant owner - who is interested in restoring an attic apartment - and his lovely sister Hikma. Months go by. Andrea discovers that Hikma is pregnant with Riccardo's child, while she's struggling with her old-fashioned, fundamentalist brother's mentality. He offers to help the couple and let them stay with him in his villa. Teaching him how to care for his garden, the young Hikma reminds Andrea of his wife Sofia, who passed away right there four years earlier, in unclear circumstances...
A young couple visits a widow named Amparo on Christmas Eve to possibly buy her floor. But Amparo seems more interested in their lives than a flat sale.
Carter Is struggling in school due to his video game addiction. When he doesn't take his professors advice seriously, a strange turn of events leave him in shock.
Tomer and Shmulik are a couple. One evening, during a causal supper, one of them announces he wants to break up. Pain takes over their intimacy and the night takes an unexpected turn.
Two roomates become acquainted during a game of chess.
No End was inspired by a poem I wrote over the course of six months. During this process, abstract images surfaced, subsided, and settled: eventually forming the foundation of a film. The result is a lyrical journey that explores the intersection of interconnectivity and the lived experience. The film includes an original soundtrack by Graham Stewart of Viosac.
Ted hangs out on the river banks where he lives his homosexuality in secret. One night his brother's gang shows up for some gay bashing. Shocked by the violence of his brother, Ted decides to confront him...
Antoine, twenty-five, does not want to be alone this evening. He leaves in the middle of the night to find a remedy for his loneliness.
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.
Hanna, 32, is on her way home one late evening when she runs in to an acquaintance, Andreas, 20, who invites her to a party close by. The party consists of five twenty year old boys. At first, Hanna feels uncomfortable, but she’s adjusting. Soon she feels like she’s one of them.
The story of a mothers love for an unborn child and how the time has come to leave the memories safely behind and move on.
Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is hardly any different than it is for other families. But not everyone sees it that way – Sara's father in particular has his doubts. As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, she feels rather overwhelmed: her first crush, a body in the midst of changes and to top it off, conflicts over loyalty with her parents.
Siblings Roby and Raya after the death of their father and being abandoned by their mother, are forced to live with their dominating grandmother in a small country house owned by their family. Things change after the sudden death of their grandmother. The teenagers have to face a tough choice: either to report the accident and submit themselves to a life in an orphanage or hide the dead body and live as if nothing has happened.
The unlikely story of a little seal who befriends a blind musician.
Two children sneak out behind their parents' back, to a magical circus world.
A 1986 set of three French clay animation shorts: The Multi-Coloured Little Circus and The Two Little Nightwalkers, both by Jacques Remy-Girerd, and The Baby Seal by Pierre Veck.
Retalhos
A short film about a raisin.
A young guy gets caught on a currency transaction, changing rubles to dollars. But in his mind, he has long overcome not only state borders, but also the laws of gravity.