Waiting for Cecilia

Abdis Hörna

Antoine - a grieving loner - spends his days in a cafe on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the subway and go to the movies. Today, he takes it upon himself to talk to her. Thus began Antoine's down-going.

A chain of people connected by desire. They are all looking for the one – talking about sex and chasing love. They know what they want, but will they ever get it?

To stay below a 1.5 degree increase in global temperature, we must leave between 60 and 80% of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. Which energies should be preferred to replace oil, gas and coal? Renewable energies or nuclear energy?

Behind every female face there is a story of struggle, strength and beauty. Follow the routine of five women who represent the country, in all its cultural, social, racial and religious diversity.

Ten young people from all over the world meet in Rome with Pope Francis with the aim of talking and conveying to him the main concerns of their generation. What awaits them is an unprecedented meeting, a face-to-face conversation, and a unique event.

Centering on a girl who has learned she is pregnant, the film traces the intersecting paths of several young people across a night of the full moon.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

The young daughter of Keizo Tsujiguchi, a respected physician who runs his own hospital, is found murdered. Keizo secretly blames his wife Natsue because he suspects her of having an affair with his colleague Murai, and having been too distracted to keep proper watch over the child. Being a proud man, he does not accuse her directly, but concocts, instead, a twisted revenge against her. Pretending it is to comfort his devastated wife, Keizo arranges for them to adopt a baby girl. What he hasn't told Natsue, is that the baby is the orphaned daughter of the murderer, a tragic day-laborer who has hanged himself while in police custody. He plans to reveal the child's origins after Natsue has given her heart to the child-- when it will cause the greatest possible hurt.

A man wrongfully accused of murder forms an unlikely partnership on his release and attempts to uncover the truth behind his wife's death...

Karthik, who researches about temples, goes onto investigate the mystery behind the Subramanyapuram temple. He is an atheist who visits the village with his love interest and friends for a festival. Caught between the belief of villagers and facts about the mysterious deaths surrounding the temple, Karthik seeks to find the truth.

A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.

Follow the clandestine love affair between film star Kim Novak and singer/dancer and film star Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957.

Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is hoping that her ex-husband, outstanding practical chemical engineer Vik Panc (Eduard Cupák), will help her conduct an experiment to validate her proposed theoretical method of isolating cholesterol from lanolin. The success of Edita's invention is crucial for her career at the Prague Institute of Chemistry. Vik's roommate from his hostel Bréta (Ivan Vyskocil) is thrilled. He will finally meet the mysterious and fascinating Edita about whom he has learned so much from Vik.

The race against time ... Water, blooming life/suffocating death. Fighting back to life despite an irreversible loss is the greatest victory over death.

In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.

A film about the ability to see the world in a different way, a way most people do not see it, while their eyesight is being filtered in the name of the phantom "comfort and calmness."

In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name "Firenze" in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met 30 years ago. Lisbon, 2007: Joseph is a tormented American seminarian, a member of Opus Dei, who has come to Lisbon to help organize an exhibition of the Franciscan Order in Lisbon's Cathedral. The exhibition brings to Portugal a legendary mirror, "The Mirror of St. Francis of Assisi", that was said to have allowed St Francis to see the next morning. On the day of his departure, Joseph, at the train station, literally bumps into Giulia, a beautiful and irreverent Italian writer with whom he establishes an immediate chemistry. Giulia tells Joseph she came to Lisbon to try to find a mysterious Portuguese singer who her father had a relationship with in Lisbon before he left to fight for the Portuguese in their colonial war.

Cântico Final

Sequences that illustrate moments in a woman's life, in parallel to the political events happening in South America during the 60's.