An Afternoon With Mike Ku

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells.

Experimental biblical short film retelling the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Kaki is a 60-year-old widow who lives with her Nepali maid, Malti. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy (a sailor) from her hometown unexpectedly.

A love couple finds their secret place on a desolated river bank, without knowing about the fisherman and trio of pop musicians who found themselves there by accident, and who now use this opportunity for voyeurism.

Japanese movie about an erotic massage in the afternoon

A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.

The bad day of a film buff at the Cinematheque. A stranger projects herself on the screen and changes its course.

Taisuke, Issei and Yumi are on their way to visit Yumi’s older sister, Rie, her husband and their daughter Masumi in their flat in Tokyo. It is the obon holiday in August, when families traditionally get together to honor their ancestors.

A seemingly ordinary day in the life of Quentin, a Parisian film-lover. After going to the cinema twice, he runs into a former college friend, listens to a girls' conversation in a bar, then goes and meet his best friend, has a beer, and ends up spending the evening in the Parc Montsouris, where he meets Lise.

A homage to the French light comedy classics such as the works of Jacques Tati, An Afternoon at the Beach is short film that tells the tale of a French sailor visiting the beach during the 1920s and follows him through his various setbacks as he makes a new friend

The life of a single mother living in Tehran gets unsettled by the visit of her enstranged sister.

A masterful minor exercise in telling a story with a twist and an equally masterful exercise in the dramatic use of what's known as a Steadycam, a camera with flowing motion. The car journey with one lover too many gets completely out of hand. And after the twist, another one follows.

In 1973, towards the end of the Franco regime, the famous catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda bumped into the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva where she lived exiled and she invited him to tea at her house. The writer was a most discrete person and maintained everything that concerned her wrapped in secrecy. Indeed she herself had become a secret or perhaps, even a maker of secrets. However that afternoon, strangely, she opened up and shared many intimacies.

A girl works part-time at a bowling alley. She either cleans the bowling balls or waters the plants, and nothing more. There is not a customer here. The girl encounters three people: A Cheon, who has lost his job; Bo, who comes to pick up coffee cups at 2 everyday; and Eddy, who cannot play the cello anymore. Each of them has his or her story but the girl does not know why they are here and why they end up leaving. However, the reason is not important to her because just like them, she cannot tell why she is here.

In a humble hotel room, a young railwayman is preparing for a meeting with a girl we never see because she never arrives.

In a beautiful afternoon, a little boy meets an unexpected friend, with whom he starts an adventure journey.

For three children, the nicest toys and tastiest food awaits them at their home after a long day. But as they further indulge in euphoria, everything turns out differently as what we are seeing.

Vera is an engineer and a young divorcée. She is pretty, lonely, and has a boyfriend, Tamás, whom she is dating secretly on a certain day of the week at the week-end house of one of their friends, as Tamás has a family and does not intend to divorce his wife. Vera would like their relationship to be publicly acknowledged.

The landscape of a town somewhere emerges on the screen—the riverside, a street, a clothing store, a barbershop, an amusement park, an ally, a graveyard, a cafe—as a woman with a camera appears in the frame, filming.