Queens of the Qing Dynasty

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

A crossing guard has known too many misfortunes in his life to believe he is facing the on-the-run President of the Republic.

Shadow tells the story of Mirage, whose love for his family deepens after a tragic incident injures his parents. Years later, their bond is tested when hidden truths emerge, throwing Mirage into inner turmoil

A couple stroll through a wintry landscape - Is this a dream? Is this Heaven?

Inside a block of flats, a young woman decides to act about something concerning her for a long time.

a trio of wordless vignettes from the in-between.

Eve awakes in an unstaffed medical facility with no recollection of how, why or when she was admitted. She joins a group of outcast patients, who are attempting to recall what takes place during treatment. As Eve learns more about the patients, she begins to remember the terrible events that led to her sickness. An alien world at the edge of her dreams begins to bleed through, compelling her to write the transmissions down. Soon, these visions will consume her. Is she a prisoner, a patient... or dead?

Two men who have been friends for quite some time and who live in different cities maintain a correspondence with Super 8 film reels that they occasionally send to each other. One of these film reels shows a woman who reminds the addressee of a former girlfriend. Immediately and without paying attention to his obligations to the company, he drives the company car to the city of his childhood friend, 780 km away. There he finds out that she has been the secret lover of his Super 8 friend for years. After about three or four weeks, which they spend on the coast of another country without any significant difficulties, the lover of the childhood friend rows his boat alone across the Atlantic after an obviously frame-up rescue operation.

A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.

The complex relationship between parent and child from childhood to adulthood has affected Florence's life in unthinkable ways. She must now navigate whether to sever ties for good...or whether to give her father another chance.

One of a series of films on emotional problems in business, industry - and life itself.

When Amy and her boyfriend have a nice dinner in a restaurant where they first met, it turns out there's some pressure on their relationship.

A children's film about the largest mass suicide of the 20th century reconstructs the 1978 event. The Reverend Jim Jones forced nearly a thousand followers of his People's Temple sect to drink poison in the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, South America. A third of them were children. Jan Bušta gives sadists, voyeurs, and necrophiliacs one minute to leave the cinema. His self-reflective documentary, which is the result of ten years of time-lapse filming, does not depict dramatic scenes. To the sound of an audio recording from that fateful day, we see a collage of child ghosts preaching about escaping the corruption of the world.

A theater actor with crippling body image insecurities must face his greatest fears when he is asked to perform nude on stage in his dream role.

Based on a fictionalized 2015 memoir from psychiatric nurse Mary Dorsan, the text embeds within a teenage psychiatric ward over the course of a year, teasing out the complex bonds, challenges, frustrations and unexpected moments of grace shared between patients and caregivers.

A film student from Long Island, who cut his dying father’s cough out of the home movies at thirteen, spends four years filming everyone but himself — until one festival slot, a rival’s film, and the footage he’s been cutting force him to choose between the safe version and the true one.

A bedraggled young wanderer lives in a desolate world in complete isolation until reviewing their past choices forces them to call for help.

2 flatmates unfold the layers of their relationship on a random Sunday afternoon after they encounter a power cut.

Eva is hospitalized at her request for depressive syndrome. It is a way, for her who passes into adulthood, to protect herself from an external world which anxiates and frightens her.

Haunted by flooding memories of their parents' verbal abuse, an insecure person decides to stop reflecting and start living the life they never knew they could have.