Ein Fernsehteam macht sich auf, um im brasilianischen Urwald eine Dokumentation über die letzten Kannibalen zu drehen. Als nach 2 Monaten jegliche Lebenszeichen von ihnen ausbleiben, wird ein zweites Team in den Wald geschickt, um die Vermissten zu finden. Dies geschieht auch - allerdings ist alles, was man von den jungen Leuten noch findet, ihre von Maden und Käfern bewohnten Skelette. Immerhin ihr Filmmaterial findet den Weg zurück in die Heimat und wird zwecks einer TV-Ausstrahlung ausgewertet. Nun kommt die ganze schreckliche Wahrheit ans Licht: Um gute Bilder zu bekommen, haben die skrupellosen Reporter die Naturvölker gequält, mißbraucht und geschändet. Klar, dass diese sich dafür rächen wollten..
Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor's mansion to uncover a sex scandal.
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
Ein junger Engländer kommt nach Los Angeles und lernt dort das Totengeschäft und das Bestattungswesen kennen. Er wird schließlich selbst Angestellter eines großen Beerdigungsinstituts in Hollywood, das, als sich die traditionelle Bestattungsform geschäftlich nicht mehr lohnt, die Toten durch Raketen in den Weltraum schießen läßt.
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.
Classic film star and queer icon Montgomery Clift’s legacy has long been a story of tragedy and self-destruction. But when his nephew dives into the family archives, a much more complicated picture emerges.
Revered French actor Gérard Depardieu, featured in over 170 film and television projects, has, in recent years, been disgraced. Countless allegations of sexual assault and abuse have brought this titan under fire.
A young filmmaker accidentally claps her idol’s mystical clapperboard, throwing the two on a frantic journey through film genres and beyond.
A successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and typewriter in Amsterdam or the offers to go to the dreamworld of the Italian film city Cinecittà which is luring him? Trying to find this out he goes into retreat in the house of a befriended gay couple in the south of France.
Underemployed and reeling from a recent miscarriage, a comedy writer's life is getting less funny by the minute. When she lands a meeting that could turn it all around she has to choose: tell the truth or go for the laugh? A poignant comedy based on a true story.
Zwei griechische Filmemacher, die sich mit Gelegenheitsarbeiten über Wasser halten, wollen endlich ihren eigenen Film realisieren, können sich aber wegen weltanschaulicher, politischer und ästhetischer Differenzen nicht auf ein gemeinsames Konzept einigen. Etwas zerfahrene Komödie, die neben kulturellen und sozialen Anspielungen ihren Reiz aus dem Spiel mit Klischees und Versatzstücken diverser Kinogenres bezieht; bei aller Ehrlichkeit regt sie jedoch nur bedingt zur Reflexion über Kunst und Kommerz, Aufklärung und Unterhaltung an.
An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman and Elia Kazan.
Directed by popular comedian turns to director, Mum Jokmok, Pohtak is a parody comedy that explores the lives in front and behind the camera of Thais film industry.
"Ist das Kino eine Sprache, die verloren geht, eine Kunst, die sterben wird?": Diese Frage stellte Wim Wenders 1982 in Zimmer 666 sechzehn seiner Regiekollegen. Vierzig Jahre später, im Jahr 2022, verwendet Lubna Playoust denselben Aufbau, um 30 zeitgenössischen Filmemachern, die auf dem Festival von Cannes sind, dieselbe Frage zu stellen: von Wim Wenders selbst bis James Gray, von Rebecca Zlotowski über Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid oder Asghar Farhadi bis Alice Rohrwacher.
A disgruntled film production assistant seeks advice from a young, eccentric producer with sadistic tendencies.
Whilst documenting his life as a lowly intern, James Parker (James Powell) uncovers the long forgotten film, The Street Walker. Desperate to make a mark on the film industry and to prove his ever-doubting parents wrong, James endeavours to complete the unfinished horror movie, resulting in a murderous obsession.
Sleazy director "auditioning" actresses for a movie and trying to get them to commit to more to get the part.
Two straight actors must rehearse for an impending gay love scene. How will they make out?
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.