Eloy sofre de sonambulismo e caminha pelos telhados. Certo dia, cai na cama de Elvira,e é convidado para aprender sexo tântrico. A vida do rapaz nunca mais seria a mesma.
Fernando, um ornitólogo de cerca de quarenta anos, desce um rio em caiaque, na esperança de encontrar as raras Cegonhas pretas. Absorvido pela imponência da paisagem, deixa-se surpreender pelos rápidos e é engolido pela fúria das águas. Nesta viagem pelo rio Fernando acaba por ser confrontado por todos os seus medos e demónios. A fé leva-o a fazer desta viagem uma descida de rio em que nunca mais nada será igual. Um rio sem retorno.
A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come up with a strategy, but in the process—while the landlord and his aggressive attorney are chasing them—the tenants transform into the opposite of who they once were.
A verdadeira história da ascensão ao poder e do assassinato brutal do anteriormente difamado e posteriormente redimido líder do Congo independente, Patrice Lumumba. Usando evidências históricas recém-descobertas, o escritor e diretor nascido no Haiti e mais tarde criado no Congo, Raoul Peck, apresenta um relato emocionante e tenso do funcionário dos correios e vendedor de cerveja com um talento para a oratória e uma crença intransigente na capacidade de sua terra natal para construir uma nação próspera independente dos seus antigos senhores belgas. Lumumba surge aqui como o heróico cordeiro sacrificial retratado de forma duvidosa pela mídia internacional e levado ao abate por interesses comerciais e políticos na Bélgica, nos Estados Unidos, na comunidade internacional e na própria administração de Lumumba; uma história verídica de intriga política e assassinato, onde entidades políticas, capitães do comércio e militares se articulam em sua busca pela hegemonia econômica e política.
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
A young gay man, identified as a writer, encounters a local policeman, who arrests him for public cruising in a park. The policeman is more than professionally curious about the young man, who seems to have the cop's number and suddenly kisses him.
Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.
BB works as a political cartoonist at a liberal newspaper, his more outrageous efforts duly appreciated but not necessarily published by his boss. He's in love with the boss’ lovely, talented computer-scientist daughter, Kesso. But his choice meets with stiff opposition from his strict Muslim father Karamako, who is the chief of his village as well as imam of Conakry, especially when Kesso becomes pregnant with BB’s child.
Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the frames. Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school. Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil).
Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.
What does the people in the street think of nuclear physics today? These men and women do not walk far from the imposing Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Porte de la Villette, Paris). They have more nuanced ideas than one might imagine, just like those of scientists. This rapprochement between everyone is beneficial.
First part of the collaborative project "Brise-Glace" showing the diverse travels on the icebreaker "Frej". Directed by Jean Rouch.
Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to compromise her values and potentially her health, may cost her a place there.
In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.
Second part of collaborative project Brise-Glace. Directed by Titte Törnroth.
Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.