Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British history. Constructed using primary source documents about the taking of Zhoushan, Britain's first choice for a seaport, in the late 1830s,this movie uses Captain Charles Elliot's reluctance to brutalize the Chinese to reflect on the cyclical nature of history and the power structures that move it. The long takes used throughout function to illustrate the dramatically different ways in which people who lived in the mid-19th century perceived time. Additionally, it represents the psychological effect of living on an island regardless of what era you were born in.The last third of the movie focuses on a young woman whose strange day job has taken her far away from the island of Zhoushan generations after Captain Charles Elliot was last there. "Captain Elliot's Circle" was shot on location in Zhoushan and Hangzhou.
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regarding the photograph sets off a series of dramatic misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies.
In the near future, the world seems to function in an efficient and controlled way...
La Meilleure Façon de tracer
A man wants to smoke a cigarette. His lighter doesn't work. He has induction cookers. Today, alone, an average man in his home, how does he make fire?
a man late for a date, runs into his high school sweetheart at a train station, here the pair briefly re-live the past and the messy end to their relationship.
April X is a high octane, near future thriller about twins Bax and April. When April goes missing, Bax searches every dark corner of the post Soviet cityscape trying to find her, ultimately descending into madness.
Dioni, like every day, is late for work. His boss already warned him that if this happened again, he would leave him on the street. Someone is going to have to run if he wants to get paid this month...
Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.
In the late ‘70s, in the midst of the military dictatorship, a surrealist literary work- shop is the oasis of Martín, a tormented young man who seeks to improve his poetry. Caron, a brilliant and eccentric writer, adopts him as a son. Their bond is recorded in short home movies and an unusual correspondence.
Sound progression of two opposite landscapes.
A film killing itself.
Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.
Ilyas and Brahim work at a television repair shop. When the end of the day arrives, his boss sends them to bring a television to a costumer on the other side of Barcelona, hours before the much-anticipated FC Barcelona's UEFA Champions League final, endangering their friendship and their job in order to get to see the game.
Filmed over five years across varied sites, Devereaux gives quiet attention to the shifting sensations of place. From rain and snow to beaches, mountains, and city streets, the film traces environments in contrast: rural and urban, water and land, summer and winter. These images, held in long takes, resist narrative flow, instead assembling a meditation on how landscapes provoke moods, memories, and ideas.
Hate Mail is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hysterically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. Their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. The play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.
€ (Euro) - un cortometraggio di Andrea Ventura
Yo - a hard working salary girl loses her mouth.
London, 2101. The automotive world is turned upside down by new cars with unrivalled skills. A new era of gaming emerges, a competition between prisoners and drivers. Prisoners have the chance to get out of prison, while the professionals rake in the cash. It a dangerous competition in which everyone risks their lives. Aaron, a young prisoner, is asked to take part in this year’s games. Having found himself in prison for a minor crime, he sees this as an opportunity to reunite with his family. After winning all the preparatory races, he now finds himself in the final against the favorite.