In the year 2000, in the region of the heights of Chiapas, an ambush against a patrol car took place, and a few policemen died. Professor Alberto Patishtán was found guilty and sentenced to 60 years in prison. The film unearths the entrails of that story.
Melisa and her friends debate on what means to be a woman. But these stories contrast to the director and protagonist’s, reconstructed from the personal archive footage that distort the genre’s mandates and prohibitions with humor.
Florencia is 17 years old, and she must take care of her brother, who is a vegetative state. Trying to survive with no money and no one taking care of them, the young girl will discover the comic book The Plants and start to explore her sexuality through the Internet.
Poetry, literature, painting and film converge in this lyrical film essay about the Taiwanese poets who protested against Japan’s cultural superiority and the predominance of realism in poetry during the ‘30s.
Benoît is a 14 year-old boy who leaves the countryside and moves to Paris. He has to start from scratch in a new school, make new friends, and –together with an Swedish schoolmate– find his first love and get drunk with non-alcoholic beer.
While a wave of child kidnappings takes place in Montreal, Felix is finishing his school year in an apparently quiet neighborhood. Slowly, his imaginary demons start to reflect the ones present in the disturbing reality around him.
Lens returns to Paris to find his only true love, Madeleine. As his search continues, he meets a nurse with whom he starts a love story marked by jealousy and self-destruction.
Cecilia, a young Korean-Argentinian woman, is making a documentary. Through her relationship with her Korean friends, she will discover how the different cultural identities determine the lives of people in their most intimate aspect: their love relationships.
A faux documentary set in a dystopian world where women can reproduce asexually and men have become useless to society. Things get complicated when the male population decides it’s time to organize a rebellion.
Due to a mysterious phone call, a man is forced to enter an abandoned country house. His encounter with a woman paves the way for a disturbing experience in which memories and dreams seem to display a narcotic kind of power. Based on the story by Machado de Assis.
A foray into the personal, mental and creative universe of a unique artist who, at 89, continues being not only an enigmatic figure for Russian culture, but also for culture in general.
A film that aims to depict the hard road to social and work reinsertion convicts go through after their release. Narrated in first person by five inmates from the Rebibbia prison in Rome.
In 1991, Kurdwin and his parents were forced to flee from Iraq. Years later, his sick father decides to visit relatives in the city of Dohuk in order to buy a property there. His daughter comes along, carrying a camera, while they visit real estate agents and soldiers in a war zone.