Aza, a mentally challenged young man from a small village, is determined to get married. Ignoring his father's objections, he heads to the city to find a job. What follows is a series of comedic misadventures as Aza struggles to survive in a world he doesn't fully understand—failing at jobs, stumbling into trouble, and eventually turning to begging. After his chaotic city experience, he heads back to his village, where everyone’s been waiting to see what became of him.
Directed by Zbigniew Gniazdowski and Aleksander Hertz.
Prosecutor Olsen's lover, the singer-songwriter Betsy, leaves him for a new passion. And he, speaking in court as a prosecutor, remains deaf to the dictates of feelings, a ruthless servant of the harsh Law. Some time later, Betsy kills her new lover in a fit of jealousy; Olsen, who retained his feelings, nevertheless becomes her accuser at the trial. He seeks the condemnation of Betsy, but comes to the realization that he lived unrighteously, allowing himself to be judged, becoming a servant of Themis. Exit in the classic tradition of the great mute: Olsen commits suicide.
Getsel, a wandering Purim player, comes to a Galica village and gets a job with Reb Nuchem, the shoemaker. He falls in love with Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, but knows she is in love with a wandering circus player. However, Getzel is content in his work and dreams. Esther's father inherits a fortune and attempts to marry her to a man of his choice, but she flees with Getzel to Warsaw, where he meets and marries the circus player. Getzel returns to the village and is blamed for Esther's disappearance until she shows up and explains what happened. Getzel shoulders his pack and wanders on to another village.
Renee Unger (Kris Carr), a good wife and expectant mother, lives with her husband, Eric (Timothy Altmeyer), in a quiet Ohio town where there aren't many secrets. But everything changes when Eric's younger brother, Colson (Todd Swenson), recently released from prison after turning 21, comes to live with the family. Colson's strange behavior starts to unnerve Renee, while Eric clams up at any mention of why his brother was imprisoned. As the mystery deepens, so does Renee's sense of dread.
This Czechoslovakian children’s film takes place during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The young son of a horse trainer loves nothing more than riding his horse, until he is stricken by polio…
Divided into five parts, this film traces the long strike by workers at the Caravelair caravan factory in Trigniac, near Saint-Nazaire, led by the C.G.T. and C.F.D.T. unions. Shot in 1975, the film achieved the strange feat of being produced entirely by workers' producers - 15,000 of them paid in advance for their tickets - and of being amortized, and even made profitable, by being shown outside the commercial circuit alone.
The allure of pleasant weather, a carefree lifestyle and better job prospects in Queensland appeal to Doug, a downtrodden factory worker from Melbourne.
A man is murdered on a bus for trying to stop a pickpocket; no one lifts a finger to help him. He returns as a ghost and questions the empathy of the onlookers.
She's the bar floozy, he's the stranger. She tries to pick him up but for some reason, he's not game.
The biography of the Indonesian women's emancipatist, R.A. Kartini, based on her letters.
A silent excavation of everyday objects gradually reveals the site as Auschwitz-Birkenau, turning archaeological work into a stark meditation on memory and loss.
The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated permutations of the film’s title appear like subtitles—the letters are scrambled over and over again, undermining the meaning of Pierre Trudeau's infamous motto.
A humble villager should win the love of a princess.
Örn, an aging countess, finds herself reminiscing about the tragic fate of the young lovers Carl-Johan Örn and Margareta by the family tombs.
A selection of AI Bots dictate the purpose of existence in a world that is relying on technology at a concerning rate.
Samuka, a village girl, was in love with a navy officer in her past life, but they could not be together. When they are reborn, they face various challenges in their attempts to unite.
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Shot in Quebec, Canada, The Subterranean Blackness of Roots is a 16mm film triptych which uses several processes specific to analog cinema (hand processing, optical printing, photochemical alteration). The film seeks to show the sensory experience of the invisible life of stones, plants and the nature that surrounds us. It’s a dive into the heart of matter, the essence of the vegetal world and the nourishing earth.
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