The first time Hugo Montero entered the psychiatric hospital he was twenty years old. He died there, at the age of eighty-five. He produced hundreds of poems and drawings behind those walls. In 2004 he published a book of his poetry, Penumbras. In the prologue to his book he says: Is writing a resurrection?
Suddenly orphaned by the loss of her single father, 11-year-old Harper is sent to live with her alcoholic aunt on a dilapidated family farm. Just as she begins to settle into her tumultuous new home, her life is torn asunder once again when her wealthy socialite mother who abandoned her at birth reappears to claim Harper for her own, selfish reasons.
A Start in Life
Set within the aftershocks of South Africa’s Apartheid, a gay farmhand writes letters to his lover.
To the Question of the Dialectic of the Perception of Art, or Lost Dreams
A young, restless Jewish mother and her family move to an idyllic country property at the base of a mystical and sacred Aboriginal mountain (Gulaga, or “Mother Mountain”), with the hope of starting a new life. Still haunted by a marriage break-up and a strained relation with her parents, she struggles to find a meaningful connection with her new partner. When her daughter is bullied at the local school, an enigmatic Indigenous boy Ren comes to her aid and opens her eyes to the magic of the mountain and its bucolic surrounds. But an unexpected visit from her parents reopens old wounds, with unexpected consequences.
It is a screen adaption of the cognominal short story of Olha Kobylianska in which the struggle of the educated women with the bourgeois manners is described. Three girls from one family are very interested in the art and are going to devote a lifetime to it. But it is the beginning of the 20th century with all peculiar to that time disadvantages, and the way to the success is bestrewed with the difficulties.
"Trot Is Life" a comedy drama about the group Shinhwa and an aspiring idol Ji-won who don't seem to go together at all is just getting started.
A black, grieving ex-pastor saves the life of the white man that killed his wife.
El Vástago y su Promesa
On a Friday afternoon, there was an unexpected knock on the door of the staff room of a city high school. An ambitious father is willing to go to extremes to get his son admitted to high school. The six teachers who are still at school so shortly before the start of the weekend now have to find out the hard way. After some unexpected twists and embarrassing revelations, true abysses open up for everyone involved...
Louis-José takes a stand: yes, he admits, he describes himself as slow, going against the grain of his time where immediacy is valued, thus justifying his affection for this underestimated and unloved month. Captured in September 2018 at the legendary Capitol Theater in Moncton.
A ragtag group of misfits embark on a wild space adventure to Mars, only to discover they’ve been bamboozled by a billionaire.
Strangeville's famous stoners set out to help Santa finish his Christmas deliveries after he accidentally smokes some yule-tide zombie weed.
Joe just wants to be a cowboy. But no one takes him seriously, especially his father.
A reclusive senior citizen seeks a release from life.
From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.
Three friends enact an innocent revenge on one's rapist but things spiral out of control resulting in the deaths of each of their lovers.
Ich kauf mir lieber einen Tirolerhut
Kristian, who is a transvestite, still lives at home with his mother Emma, because she loves him just the way he is. Life as a transvestite offers many humiliations from the outside world, but with his mom, Kristian feels that he can be himself. Until one day when Emma meets the alcoholic Søren, who does not have the same tolerance...