Now And Then

João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.

Daniel O'Neil is a promising writer who has to work hard when Dora, his rich girlfriend, breaks up with him. Expelled from the hotel where he lives in Copacabana, Daniel moves into the small apartment of Meg, his best friend. He puts them both in danger when he gets a ride with a drug dealer who ends up being chased by the police and asks Daniel to keep two packages of cocaine.

After an unexpected encounter with a group of women attempting to take to the streets, Patricia begins an intimate yet collective journey to understand the violence she has experienced. Amidst the resurgence of feminist protests, she journeys through her own history and that of her mother, as well as the women she fights alongside of, to discover that in a violent world, creating modes of self-defense and preserving joy can be revolutionary.

“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.

A man who works at a book shop and writes for a film magazine meets the woman who photocopies his ID; as well as another man, an illustrator. They get together with a man who works as a waiter and produces independent cinema.

The film consists of four young men at the end of their 20s. Joo-dae, who is preparing to study abroad in Germany, hopes to see his three other friends before his departure. However, Seong-woo seems unreachable. One spring day, having gathered at Kyeong-hwan's for lunch, Joo-dae suggests paying a visit to Seong-woo's place, but the other two disagree. The entangled times from their hasty lives are full of anxiety. Where are they headed to?

Swan leads a quiet, simple life. When he meets the crazy cat Tony, his world is turned upside down.

The documentary, black and white, has "space" as theme, both as an abstract category and as a scope and "scene" of human relations.

This Christmas comedy tells a story of how on Christmas Eve, a beautiful wife goes from prosperous restaurateur Michel. Trying to immediately restore the lost happiness, he gets into a vortex of tragicomic love triangle.

Following on from the short film 'The buildings will take off and leave us behind' (2022), the director imagines what happened to the buildings after they took off from earth.

In the short film "Sharunas Bartas: where am I now" director looks for an answer to the question retrospectively and with a perspective towards the future. Reflections on meaning of life and cinema blends in as do autoportrait and portrait genres. In laconic manner director Sharunas Bartas gives quintesense of his thoughts and ideas, more importantly, his feelings and experiences. The film was initiated by Pompidou Art Centre, which recently organized Retrospective of Sharunas Bartas.

A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII.

Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil rights to the Mapuche Indio people was approved. Raoul Ruiz listens to their painful stories.

Aksel is renowned for his ability to predict the future. Suddenly he gets a vision the elderly farmer Knut will die in three days. When he tells Knut of his fate, the old man initiates a mission to save the farm from falling into the hands of his annoying brother.

A young man in his twenties, the ghost of a war memory coming from his childhood hovers around his head. The ghost tries to control the innocent memory of his inner child. The meanings that he loved when he was young began to change and become other harsh and painful meanings, so he finds his salvation in the same place from which death came.

Official music video "Future Starts Now" is the first single by German singer-songwriter Kim Petras from her scrapped third studio album Problématique.

Experimental short film based on Andrew Sarris' introduction to 'American Cinema'.