Set in 1973 Spain, a struggling encyclopedia salesman and his wife take advantage of an offer to make adult films. The act turns him into an aspring legit filmmaker and her into an international sex symbol.
"Ritratto di Rosa, all'italiana" stands as the second act of the trilogy begun in 2019 with "Portrait de Rosa, à la française." The poetry of the first chapter is replaced by a melody that takes the viewer back among the waves of a journey, among rocks and shells. A song full of love and hope from the past, setting the end of youth and the beginning of maturity.
Michelle
A drama film dealing with autism made by an autistic filmmaker featuring autistic cast members. Looking at the highs and lows, and struggles of living with autism. Following 2 women's lives as they try to make the best of their situations. This film offers a real insight and challenges the many taboos and miss conceptions on autism.
Upon a stay in his grandparent's countryside house, young writer Matt begins to encounter strange happenings as he attempts to write his first novel.
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
Apip, a teenage cinephile, is forced to go to school in an Islamic boarding school by his mother for being "too free." In his final year, he discovers a golden opportunity: a national short film competition. But rigid school rules stand in his way, forcing Apip to choose between his passion and institutional demands.
Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what's left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.
A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.
Known for his striking visuals and outlandish subject matter, maverick director Sogo Ishii is considered to be the master of Japanese punk cinema. In ‘Attack!’, biker gangs meet the Japanese punk scene. Continuation of the filming of "High School Panic" after a stoppage by the production company. Awarded at the 1978 Pia FIlm Festival.
Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.
In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise when they decide to cross from West to East, crossing the Muslim-Christian line that divides Beirut.
The farmhouse of a rural family is declared unfit for habitation. While part of the family fights to save the space their ancestors built, the younger ones imagine where they could go.
A MOVIE IN THE 8mm Film. By Akiyoshi Imazeki
In an apparently perfect society, a novice art curator becomes obsessed with a comic book hero, only to discover she might be real—and everyone wants a piece of her.
The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant grandparents creating a cinematic firework of analogies.
Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to make pictures.
In a small town of 1960's India, where cinema is forbidden for women, a 14-year-old embarks on a quest to watch her first film.
Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.