An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting

A twenty-seven year old male is struggling with his demons and addictions. When he faces some devastating news, he is forced to examine his life. A chance encounter leads him into ...."Living A Life Beyond His Wildest Dreams'.

Damien John Kelly House, catering to men in recovery, opened to significant opposition in 2019. Within a short space of time, the abstinence-based recovery living centre had changed the hearts and minds of the local community. Its residents channel their recovery through activity, from team sports to photography, writing, filmmaking and other artistic pursuits. Among them is Sam. A short film about his issues with addiction is the entry point for this portrait of the centre and those who have benefited from it. It highlights how recovery is most effectively achieved through engagement and community interaction.

1. I Shall Not Be Moved

2. Up Above My Head

3. One Day at a Time

4. This is Just What Heaven Means to Me

5. Life's Railway to Heaven

6. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

7. God on the Mountain

8. Amen

9. The Old Rugged Cross

10. Since Jesus Came into My Heart

11. Softly and Tenderly

12. Somebody Loves Me

13. He Touched Me

14. Cleanse Me

15. Because He Lives

A journey that begins in the far north of Portugal, and visits a dozen of villages and places in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The houses, the cafés, the streets and the people who still live there. It is the picture of the day-to-day of some of these people, who are ever fewer, and ever more elderly. And lonely. People who live their lives one day at a time.

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.