Time Was

An extraordinary film about memory, and specifically the fading memory of an 86-year-old political activist who has fought tirelessly against historical amnesia and for justice in Argentina. The director’s grandmother, Laura Bonaparte, was one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, formed during the 1970s by women whose children and family members had been disappeared by the Videla military dictatorship. Laura herself lost three children and their partners, including the director’s parents. Today, after a lifetime battling that the disappeared never be forgotten, Laura faces her own struggle to remember.

The film explores what transformations in power and politics do to art, how much opportunism can be found in “pure” art and whether fascist symbols can ever regain their aesthetic innocence. The questions it addresses about the relationship between ethics and aesthetics make a valuable contribution to any discussion about art and power.

Saneo is a virgin working as a cleaner at a seaside love hotel. He has a crush on the owner's only daughter, Saya, and spends his days obsessing over her every night in his favorite "time-stopping" porno...until a chance encounter leads him to a pocket watch that was used as a time-stopping item in the porno. When Saneo jokingly moves the watch, he finds Saya standing motionless in front of him, frozen in time!　When his long-held fantasy becomes a reality, what is the once-in-a-lifetime decision that the loser virgin makes?

This experimental short film was made as part of a film workshop at the University of Munich and premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1952. The plot focuses on a young painter who, absorbed in his own thoughts, is unable to communicate with those around him.

The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a group of gypsies who welcome him. They met Arild earlier and believe that the brother is Arild. Inge falls in love with the mysterious girl Isis.

Raphaël, 30 years old, has recently become single. Faced with the single life and long evenings alone, he calls his best friend Adrien one Friday night to ask him out. Adrien is not available, but he tells Raphaël about a mysterious application called "Boys-R-Us" that can fill his current lack of affection. This surrealistic application allows users to choose the boy of their choice who will immediately come and satisfy their desires... Raphaël tries the application the same evening, seeing with astonishment that it works, he uses the following days this strange and mysterious application by becoming addicted to it...

Peter Elfelt filming at the pres office at Berlingske Tidende with Kaj Flor, with others, in presence.

Julie is a cycle courier. She was meant to be spending the night with her boyfriend. Tom. But she has to work instead. She’s done too few minutes to get her bonus so she has to make up the time. Julie is up against the clock, racing across Paris from one delivery for the next.

At a time when everything has been stopped by the pandemic, reality seems to be infinitely dilated, forcing the protagonists of this film to find new tools to cope with everyday life. Taking inspiration from a lucid dream and a carefully studied turtle, Costanza decides to follow her girlfriend on an archaeological campaign on the island of Ustica. The first lockdown will force the couple to postpone their planned meeting and to analyse with different eyes the existential and physical emptiness, sanctioned by the new historical course. Through the excavations and the camera, we witness an attempt to find deeper connections with the past and the place of origin. A semi-fable about time and history, observed through the eyes of impatience.

Documentary about the life of spanish director Edgar Neville.

Cartoon based on children's poems by Mikhail Yasnov.

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

The story of a cook who tries to stop an opium ring in ancient China.

After four decades, a group of veteran singers gather together again. The songs they wrote when they were young had once changed the fate of the island. However, time took away their youth and changed the island's soul. Not only a new national identity has formed but so many new music genres have emerged since then. Can the innocent songs they sang back in the old days still be related to the new era?

A group of students from the city go on a jungle trip with the help of a young hunter as a tour guide. A forest fire forces them to escape for their lives. The group gets lost and stumbles into the Myanmar territory in the middle of the war between the Myanmar soldiers and the jungle bandits. The bandits kidnap some of the students for ransom. Not willing to pay for the demanded ransom, the group gets the help from Myanmar soldiers who fight the bandits and win their friends. Finally, they can safely return to the Thai border.

The Princess of Illyria rejects all suitors, but suddenly begins to take an interest in a wandering pauper roaming the vicinity of the royal castle. It is none other than the Prince of Denmark and his friend, Kasper Røghat. By means of a magic toy, rattle and copper kettle, the disguised prince manages to secure himself a kiss and a night in the princess’s chamber. Kasper Røghat makes sure that the king is informed of the ‘affair’, causing the princess to be thrown out of the kingdom. She accordingly has to set out for Denmark, heading for a life as the wife of a pauper. Will this fairy tale have a happy end? (stumfilm.dk)

Two women are in love with the same man. After his death, some kind of friendship comes into being.

A documentary about Korean Cubans, whose ancestors arrived 100 years ago.