A Place To Call

After you left and I remained here alone, the place of remembrance becomes vile and empty. Although it's too hard to wait for your answer without promise, I'm waiting for you while holding my breath and feel the way you do. Junho Oh’s impressive filmic collage revisits those places of remembrance and reflects upon the possibility of showing the absence and the yearning for something that is no longer tangible.

Tetouan's Algeria Street is the vibrant heart of the city, where itinerant street vendors sell all manner of contraband goods. Suddenly one day, there is big news: the traders will no longer be allowed to sell their wares on the roadsides. There is a new, model souq under construction - but not all everyone will be able to have access to a stall to conduct their business. For Mohamed, Abdel Slam, and the many others who have grown up on Algeria Street, it is as though time is suddenly suspended. Some expect the worst; others form an association and organise protests.

About the company of young people who decided to settle in the old St. Petersburg communal apartment…

Seven apartments, seven times of life: one film. A classic diary film, Boris Lehman intimately chronicles his own existence and that of objects and places that became an essential part of his life. A truly cinematic experience that gives us a highly European sense of space, time and history itself.

On a dark and ominous night, Fei Jai, who works in a real estate agency, receives an order from his boss to persuade an elderly owner to sell his flat, the only remaining occupied flat in the old residential building. In view of the lucrative profit, Fei Jai has to get rid of the cranky old owner by all possible means, but supernatural forces in the spooky rundown building seem to thwart his every effort to reach the flat. Failure not being an option, Fei Jai eventually arrives at his destination after much ado where an unexpected turn of events awaits. Full of dark humour, this modern moral story of our twisted values features the fabulous Michael NING, Hong Kong Film Awards Best Supporting Actor.

At a hilltop cottage, Giorgio and Matteo are hosting a dinner party for Giorgio's artistic friends from the city. As the group discuss art, cinema and gossip, Matteo becomes withdrawn. He goes inside and turns on his video camera, and through its lens he sees for the first time what his and Giorgio's relationship really is.

Five rich kids get kidnapped for ransom, but only one of them has the guts to try and escape.

This animation is part of a series of works done in pencil, ink, found objects, videos and 3D modeling by Alfredo Ghierra. It describes, details, investigates and creates a personal universe where formalization has the face of cities and the spirit moves to the rhythm of musings.

China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.

After his mother's death, her son encountered his mom’s illusion over the untraversable space. He caught up with his mom’s daily life before her death. It’s the story about the death of a cherished person and its acceptance process.

Sedef waits for a call at the table, accompanied by her cousin, Defne. While as daily life is flowing by its own nature. Sedef just waits without taking her eyes off her phone.

When a five girls are brought to Israel from Russia for prostitution, one of them (Jana) loses her bag near the Israeli border. Zeltzer, a farm owner from Negev, finds it and sees Jana's photos...

A dreaded sickness destroys Karen Viljoen life as rich man's wife. She is diagnosed as leprous. While Karen is in the Westford hospital with her sickness, her husband Otto finds solace with his secretary. To top it all Karen's son is taken away from her. Her doctor, Tertius Louw, intervenes just in time.

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable estrangement with family and lifelong friends. The constant lack of understanding, the coldness and individualism of the new city. The stress and even the feeling of being a stranger back home. This journey to the future sets out issues about identity, nostalgia and courage, while they fight to find their place in a changeable world.

A young woman confronts her own story as an adopted child from Sri Lanka. Her existential quest expands into a detective hunt for the truth in a morass of forged documents, corruption and family trauma.

Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in the former German colony of Togo (West Africa) hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony in memory of the African colonial soldiers who died here in August 1914. But Wahala's history and its name point to another painful past. In 1903 the German colonial administration set up a "correctional settlement" by the Chra river where people considered to be an obstacle to colonial order were obliged to live. Wahala: a place where the voice of the ancients resonates with present day pictures.

This film tells the story of a ronin falsely accused of a crime and unable to convince others of his innocence.

A bold experiment in which magicians, mediums, parapsychologists, psychics and other people with extraordinary abilities will try to prove that magic exists.