Case Of The Elephant

A breathtaking, bold and painterly film streaming images, thoughts and memories of random experiences.

The traumatic events that occur over the period of one night in a Canadian residential school infirmary. In 1930, 8 year old Elizabeth and her infant cousin are taken from their family and quarantined due to a tuberculosis scare.

Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced by the Soviet authorities.

Modern version of Dusan Makavejev classic from 1967.

That the accused Ronny Rasmussen killed his best friend for 30 years with a Samurai host, there is no doubt. The question is only if that was the meaning or a tragic accident. Through Ronny's regret of what he has done and his struggle to defend himself from a long prison sentence, we will follow the Danish legal system from within in a completely unique and extraditable way. For the first time ever, cameras will follow a whole trial in Denmark.

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

A retired policeman goes after his strange neighbour after learning about his past.

A completely new story based on existing footage from the series Columbo.

The documentary is about notorious criminal case resounded in 2009. Two young men devoted to gothic subculture were accused of cannibalism and cold blooded murder. Both convicts claim for false accusation and also that criminal case is lacking the evidence of crime. The director of the documentary got criminal case papers and presented the alternative version of this story.

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

In a wooden hut used as a canvassing center, members of a children's puppet-theatre group are rehearsing for a production about a journey to the Moon. The goings-on inside the hut and outside are being closely followed by amateur detective Pepik Barnabás. He, however, is the first to be under suspicion when a trunk containing puppets goes missing. The children follow him but, when they catch up with him, they discover he hasn't got it. Pepík offers to help them in their search.

Private Kornilov gets an order from his commanding officer to guard a military installation far away from base. They promise that he will be picked up in a week. When Kornilov arrives at the site he discovers that the only place he can sleep is the excavator that he is supposed to guard. A week passes, but nobody comes to pick him up…

The film is a satire about the anomalies of small town life. 1952. Barka Sándor, inspector of wines, arrives in Nagyrozsdás. As a result of a trick played on him by his driver, he is taken to be a minister in the steam-bath. The news that the minister is a relative of the masseur spreads with lightning speed. The corrupt leaders of the small town do their best to please the masseur.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov lived under six rulers of the Soviet state. He met with five of them - Beria (read Stalin), Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev - personally and hoped that one way or another he would be able to influence their decisions. But he had a real impact on the society of his country. He was born under Lenin and died under Gorbachev, a year and a half before the day when the state collapsed, which he helped strengthen in the first half of his life and fought against in the second. This "turn", as he himself called it, is the most interesting thing in Sakharov's history.

A fugitive criminal leaves a briefcase full of dollars, the result of a stroke that has just scored. An official of the Chamber of Deputies, who noticed the scene, decided to turn their lives collecting. Then he hides the money and left for a vacation. Unfortunately for him this act of greed's terribly complicated life.

Siles, a wealthy American, devotes all his time to research. When he tests a tincture on himself he discovers his physical appearance has transformed, and that he can transform back with the use of another tincture. Siles decides to take advantage of his transformations and live a double life.

A desperate therapist is visited by a very successful person trying to convince him that life is meaningless.