Porfirio, un hombre postrado en una silla de ruedas, vive en Florencia con su mujer y su hijo y apenas logra subsistir vendiendo minutos de teléfono móvil en el porche de su casa. En el pasado, había sido un próspero ganadero que había depositado grandes esperanzas en el futuro. En la actualidad, está pendiente de cobrar una pensión del Estado. La historia se centra en su vida cotidiana, su gradual deterioro psicológico y su obsesión por hablar personalmente con el Presidente del gobierno.
Five, even six, variations on a theme, commentary and interpretation of the same photograph. An exercise to tell and summarize the history of the Cinémathèque française.
Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest districts with her busy mother and entrepreneurial aunt. Years later, she is still the same girl enamoured with television, now also tending to her aunt’s stall selling pirated DVD movies. Elsewhere, there survives footages of a movie done before the war.
It is the end of an era. Marco, Bissoon and their friends have spent their lives working for a sugar factory that is due to close. Sugarcane is no longer profitable so it will soon be replaced by luxurious villas, golf courses and playgrounds for rich tourists, making this area forbidden for the working class. As their world seems to fall apart around them, some struggle to find their places in their strange new surroundings, while others decide to leave the country. For Bissoon, the closing of the factory brings frustration, emptiness and neo-colonial malaise. Meanwhile Marco gets intrigued by Devi, the wife of the authoritarian man overseeing the demolition of the factory. Continuing his work of putting Mauritius on the cinematic map, David Constantin tells a story of a move from tradition to modernity. In doing so, he offers a view behind the postcard façade of paradise, portraying the world less picture perfect than you might think.
How do Europeans deal with their recent dark history (the wars, dictatorships and occupations)? What traces are etched?
In the late 1970s, Marcel fled Catalonia to avoid conscription into the Spanish military. For 30 years he has been living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, where he hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for young seekers from the West.
Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home.
Tomando como referencia el libro de memorias de Luis Buñuel “Mon dernier soupir“, y en palabras de su realizadora: "Con buñueliano enganche, emprendí una investigación metafísica y sentimental, con itinerario por cinco ciudades -Calanda, Zaragoza, Madrid, Toledo y Granada- y en México, en el estado de Michoacán".
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.
Esta película de Huillet y Straub es la compañera de Cézanne, que realizaran una década antes. El título de la película hace referencia a Dominique Païni, programador del Louvre una década atrás. Como "Cézanne", la película se basa en el libro de Joachim Gasquet dedicado al pintor, especialmente el capítulo titulado "Le Louvre", que cuenta las visitas de Cézanne al Louvre, acompañado por un joven Gasquet.
