All Films

In his solitude, a man dreams, imagines, fumbles, eructs. In front of his computer, he writing, he sends e-mails, like bottles at the sea. Robinson, he tries to escape, not from a deserted island, but a world of appearances, deserted, empty, inconsistent, mirage of a mirage.

When bringing his freshly washed laundry to the attic, a man sees himself confronted with quiet voices and noises. By hanging up pieces for piece smoothly and listening to each, he tries to find out whether the noise comes from the laundry. He ends up in a labyrinth of sheets, without having the mystery solved. Are the voices coming from inside him?

AGAINST FILIAL PIETY ponders one of the oldest Chinese beliefs; the gravest offense of filial piety is not to have offspring to carry on the family name and blood. The film also relates to feelings of failure in not being able to fulfill the filial responsibility. This five minute, single framed, 16mm experimental film includes the word “barren” from 34 different written languages, which were extracted from dictionaries. The individual word or symbol disintegrates as it being enlarged to resemble landscapes or graphic shapes. The colorful technical drawing s of human anatomy and the cycle of childbirth are combined and contrasted against the monotone enlargement of Xerox copies of the word “barren” which breaks up and converges through out the progression of film.

It relates to our geographical position, with the discovery of the trajectory of each of the characters.

Rita, a young high school student, recounts and reflects on her life in a monologue played over footage of her wandering through various beautiful and often strange Chicago locations.

An antiquarian acquires a rare, cursed book and then finds that he cannot get rid of it.

Documentary about the punk subculture in Hamburg, Germany.

Azza El-Hassan's film portrayal of her neighbourhood of Ramallah, a town under fire in the current Middle East conflict. With the threat of violence severely limiting locals' activities, filming becomes the main event, especially for a group of children.

Recorded on June 16, 1999 at the TV Studio "Ohne Filter", in Baden-Baden, Germany

The Man Who Watched Too Much Part 2

The politically minded director transcends the headlines to highlight the many atrocities committed by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenka on the businessmen and journalists who dare voice dissent, and the political figures and presidential hopefuls who would seek to wrestle away control of the Republic of Belarus.

As often happens, a relationship between a man and a woman, interrupted at the very takeoff, leaves the feeling that this was happiness itself.

In "Mosaïc", the Islamic and Jewish decorative and architectural motifs are based on images, drawings and photographs of intercultural places: Samarkand, Bukhara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalusia, Isfahan, Cairo, Istanbul...

Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these 'cluster bombs' did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with 'bombies' as dangerous now as when they fell 30 years ago. Bombies examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

A story about a unique Ukrainian settlement that has existed in Brazil for over a hundred years. Surrounded by a foreign culture and religion, Ukrainians preserve the traditions and language of their people.

"In the world of the fly," says biologist Uexkull, "we find only fly things. In the world of the sea urchin we find only sea urchin things." This is the Colonel’s story and here you will find only Colonel things.

"Asymptomatic schizophrenia" is a disease that many people who did not like the regime in the USSR suffered from. Fortunately, it could be treated using "methods developed by the most eminent Soviet psychiatrists."

An unique love story spelled out with a documentary touch.

A forgotten gravure idol from 2001, Reiko Azechi (畦地令子), VHS.

The moment when malice takes shape Three young men and a woman are in a room in a flat. One of the men, Satou, has been shot dead, and the woman is crying, but it does not seem to be out of grief over Satou's death. Suzuki and Yamada are arguing about who should look out the window. They have no idea who has been shooting at this room, for what purpose, or at whom. They don't know what they're up against, where they are, or how many people they have. Did the police shoot at them because they had brought a woman into the room to rape her? If so, how did they find out? It could have been a mistake, but there is no way to be sure, and the reality is that there are dead bodies in front of them, and if they go near the window they could be shot. The leader of the group, Suzuki, is frustrated and Yamada tells him about the feelings he has had for Sato. Suzuki is emboldened by his accusation, but at that moment a second bullet is fired into the room .......

All the sugar daddies have died ; a city is born. Fictional exercise carried out in situ, in which hope and distress rub shoulders in a chaotic, scrap metal city under constant construction.

Fernando is a shy boy who covers his face with a mask and communicates only with cards. His fairy godmother transform him an attractive and confident man.

An explorer and her sister tackle adventures that defy their wildest dreams, though when it all comes down to it, it's all in a day's work for them.