A young girl from New Brunswick is rapidly losing her vision. Her father quits his job and sells his place so he can buy an RV. They both embark on a road trip to Western Canada so she can admire the Rockies before turning completely blind. Will she make it?
A young girl from New Brunswick is rapidly losing her vision. Her father quits his job and sells his place so he can buy an RV. They both embark on a road trip to Western Canada so she can admire the Rockies before turning completely blind. Will she make it?
2014-02-04
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An early short by Wolfgang Büld, in which he wanted to depict the pleasant, mundane songs and movies of the 50s. The film was supposed to be like a song by Peter Kraus or Ted Herold.
Mercedes, Max, Krull, Stephan and Karin live in an apartment in Munich. Krull loves Mercedes in vain, Karin thinks boys are horrible and takes part in competitions. She wins an evening with Udo Lindenberg. Pursued by Krull, Karin and Mercedes leave the apartment. Stephan and Max are left alone. While Karin goes to the hairdresser for the evening, Mercedes meets Simon, who drives a large truck. They decide to get married and have seven children.
Tim, a loving father struggling to cope with his adventurous son's cancer diagnosis. In an effort to bring some joy to his child, who is weakened by treatments and forbidden to go outside, Tim brings him a red balloon from the boardwalk every day. When Tim begins to realize that instead of protecting his son, he is actually holding him back, the kindhearted balloon vendor becomes an unlikely ally, and Tim learns to enjoy every last moment with his son.
Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
Intercutting live action footage with animation, a depiction of the possible memories, repressions and fears of the leading character. The animated sections are monologues by a male figure drawn to highlight the tension between rigid and fluid body structures, skeleton and flesh.
The Envoy, a lunar nymph, falls to Earth and has his magical man stolen by Mulhomem, who will only return him in exchange for the message he carries. Free adaptation of Hagoromo (The Cloak of Feathers), classic piece by Motokiyo Zeami (1363-1443).
I saw leaves that were moving. I thought: "It's a bird in its nest". I separated the leaves and looked; but there was no bird. The leaves continued to move. As I ran, faster and faster, I screamed. What moved the leaves? What moves my heart, my legs?
Porn Star Grayson Lange along with Addison Graham and Robby Valls star in a film about two mercenaries on a secret mission in the jungles of South America. Once captured, their last night together will reveal dark secrets and create sexual tensions. So much so that it will cause unforeseen collateral damage that stretches well beyond the jungle. This highly provocative and erotic film was part of Eroddity(s) 2. Now re-worked as a stand-alone short the film seems to take on new meaning.
Zaida is an android created by Said, a lonely man, who designs her to resemble a real woman and become his partner. After sharpening her physical abilities, her creator will try to seduce her for the first time, generating in her the gentle awakening of her consciousness.
Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter
After finding some videos she uploaded to YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to follow the trail she herself has left on the Internet. A search that looks into all that things that won't never die and that, especially, thinks about the way we look at ourselves.
In a near future where corporations have seized all natural resources, Nala is a lonely rebel trying to break the rules.
A struggling father uses a bedtime story to impart an important life lesson to his son.
After a dragon destroys young Georgia's home, she journeys to its lair to enact violent revenge but instead finds an innocent child in the cave. When the dragon then returns, Georgia must reckon with the price of vengeance.
I Faresonen is a combination of a documentary and fictional approach to the problem of alcoholism -- or alcohol dependency. Tackling a problem common to other Nordic countries as well, director Bjoern Breigutu has focused on the life of sailors, among others, and how alcohol is used or abused in that sector of the population. This was the Norwegian entry at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.