Modest Gods
Wind sei stark
Absurd attempts to produce an amateur film about an amateur film company. The awards ceremony for the film takes place in a town cinema: 1st Prize for the leading lady: a goat.
A massive army of workers sweat and strain to build a tower not unlike that of Babel. In spite of the ominous danger of the tower collapsing at any moment, they press on gloomily, incessantly forming column after column of labourers, like some enormous procession of lemmings.
Is it possible to know if a seed discovered after a thousand years is that of a now vanished magnolia or instead that of a virulent presently extinct weed? A film which explores childhood speculations on various issues such as time and space, sight and sightlessness, trauma and hope.
Joel, an 11-year-old boy, will guide us through the forest of the Popocatépetl volcano and with his childlike wisdom leaves us lessons on a natural life.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
A young hare named Ferdinand is playing the harmonica before the battle. Soon the signal for attack will be given, and Ferdinand will face the terrible enemy on the battlefield.
Children of migrant workers talk about the discrimination they experience at school and at work, and about their limited career and training opportunities.
Shy teenage monster making new friends in a new place. In a world where humans live alongside monsters, Martha finds herself stuck with a major identity crisis.
In a clearing amongst a forest of pines lives a reclusive old man who struggles to keep himself warm in an unrelenting winter, though help comes from an unexpected friend.
Ça va, ça va
Love has packed up and left the castle. The queen has snuck back to her Kingdom of Skedaddle. But one person’s loss is a scoundrel’s gain: Bonifacio, a teller of tall tales, sees in the forlorn queen the perfect target for his hackneyed charms. As summer approaches, he changes himself into a sweet talker and sings her praises. Things would have worked out perfectly if only Princess Molly hadn’t arrived on the scene. While visiting her mother, she quickly discovers the hoax: the queen thinks she’s found a new husband in Bonifacio. But the swindling storyteller is really only interested in the kingdom’s legends.
Famous Spanish film critic Alfonso Sánchez talks about his personal life, his work and Anouk Aimée. A sentimental tribute to one of the most relevant figures on the Spanish film scene.
A spaceman looses his identity when an inexplicable space machine produces countless copies of him and his spaceship. In his fight to eradicate these counterfeits, his own authenticity comes into question.
A space bounty-hunter travels to a lonely planet to kill a terrible monster.
In this video essay, the filmmaker reflects on the contrast between himself and the space around him, a student dormitory.
A terrible industrial accident changes little Dinki's life forever. Now Dinki's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the forest lost in his fantasies.
Commissioned by developer Harry Macklowe to promote properties at 432 Park Avenue in New York City, this short film tells the story of a ballet dancer who travels from her mansion estate to the city to move into the building where certain famous faces come up along the way.
Everyday, the main character, who is confined in a dark room, sees sunlight coming through the window: he flees from the closed place to an infinite one.