A Place

Third installment of A Quiet Place.

This vivid chronicle of groundbreaking events that led to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe is based on unpublished archival materials and highlights Poland’s unique role as a catalyst.

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.

Four friends are reunited in a night that is moved by a game of lies and truth with unexpected consequences. This movie is based on the theatrical play “Eutro” directed by Rodrigo Fischer.

20 years ago, Kei, a 23 year-old highschool teacher, fell for a student, Hitoha, a beautiful girl, but lost her from a tragic car accident. He’s now a middle aged factory worker who has just quit the job to visit Klavan in Ukraine. There lies a beautiful railway called Tunnel Of Love, where people say you can meet with your deceased beloved one. A freight transport runs once a day and it is said that the train takes someone you wish to meet.

This is the theme of the film: The secret of objects in the huge space and time curve: the not-being-able-to-recognize, the not-being-able-to-grasp, the not-knowing. The curve is presented in the film as a miniature: 24 hours (morning, day, evening, night, morning) condensed into 40 minutes.

In an undisclosed location in central Stockholm a sort of state of exception seems to be in effect. During night time, job seekers from different parts of the world live here. Daytime they share the place with workers, building the new Stockholm. The main character of the film Thomas, has for three years been sleeping in a rat infested spot under a loading bridge. Now he is not even allowed to stay there and is going to be evicted. He gives a passionate speech about dignity, human rights and his fight to live a worthy life and support his family. The film is also distributed as part of a mobile sculpture that will tour Sweden and Europe. —Erik Pauser

Ms Chan, a social worker who has just returned to work, receives her first case. She pays a visit to Jia, a single elderly who seems to have accidentally dialled the Care-on-Call Service. Jia has suspicious bruises on his face and Ms. Chan senses a possible family abuse situation. However, Jia’s attitude is unwelcoming and he sends her off right away. Since then, a series of peculiar events make Ms. Chan question her own sense of reality and sanity.

A touring theatre travelling through Uruguay soon turns into a melodrama, which in turn degenerates into an incredible police affair.

A look at the daily life of Samya and Adrián, two teenagers assisted by local authorities; a tough existence full of obstacles, precariousness, and loneliness. Only a trio of good angels, Carlos, Mario and Bea, much more than social workers, protect them.

A PLACE TO COME is a video about the mutual references between the plain description of a place and its concrete demonstration.

The documentary explores the voluntary teaching of music to young people from the periphery, highlighting the impact of education as resistance in the lives of socially vulnerable individuals in the Brazillian midwest.

Julio arrives in Colombia in search of a better life and, in complete solitude, he wanders the city. Until he meets Nicolás, with whom he will have to negotiate his feelings and search for a common denominator that will lead them to fulfill each of their goals.

It is about the Iran women's national hockey team and the problems and the difficulties in their way to go participate in the Asian matches.

This place is where my grand parents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps to be in existence.

Sometimes, lying in the dark, I wonder: how will we get out of this? We're living in a world that's falling apart behind our backs. We're living with our persecutors and they're coming back quickly. We know, yes, we know, we are unkillable. But they're coming to kill us. [...] They want to kill us because we keep on dreaming. They want to kill us because we keep on existing. They want to kill us because we are still here, in spite of you. And, therefore, we are establishing a force that says: THEY WILL NOT KILL US NOW. "I Wanna Find a Place", the result of a collective work recorded together by Ellie Fernandes, lucas lins, Sofia Rodrigues e viníciux da silva, is a production that seeks, through the sound and the voices, to find and impossible place where trans/travestis bodies cand land and fable. What do you hear in complete silence?

With so many casinos set up in Macao, factories seem to be part of a long forgotten pass. However, the old buildings’ vitality is still influencing the city. This is a story about factories, families and workers. From the big bosses to the deliverymen, their stories inspire a whole generation.

Maison d'Être is an exploratory documentary about people's emotional place attachment in highly dynamic Greater Paris undergoing large-scale urban renewal campaigns. Parisien suburbia has been a frontier between world civilisations where wellbeing encounters despair. Here local habits get confronted by government-sponsored plans for urban transformation and social aid. In Paris "home" manifests itself as one of the key existential challenges of the modern culture - a "raison d'être" of everyday life. The film is addressed to both professional audiences of urbanists, city planners, architects, and curious public. It displays numerous conversations among residents, city activists, politicians, city planners and scientists, those who reflect on the regeneration strategy of the socially depressed urban neighbourhoods.