Complet Garde

The calm, dull marriage of a young woman and her much older husband is disturbed when the man's younger brother arrives at their home.

This film depicts a wife, in the process of starting a small garden on her home balcony. Although becoming gradually beautiful, the project evokes a cascade of feelings and bitterness.

Focused on his neighbours, Le Ciel dans un jardin continues the conversation, begun with the previous film, which is imbued with melancholy in the face of the impossibility of returning. This future mourning gives a particular colour to his observation, a combination of indifference (the repetition of the days governed by the principle of subsistence) and acuity (the contemplation of small things and of lost moments). The value of the shots finds itself enhanced, from the tactile close-up that captures the elementary actions—cultivating, eating, smoking—to the widest frame, espousing with a final gaze the frontiers of world that is about to be incorporated by the filmmaker as an interior landscape, a mental object. - Emmanuel Chicon

An indoor garden institution where people can apply to go on holidays from their everyday life.

The clear record of a zoo's daily workings and the hardships of zookeepers.

Elena goes home to the village, located on the front line in the "gray zone" of the Donetsk region, where she spent her childhood. In the garden, so that weeds do not climb on neighboring areas, her brother planted mustard. The girl lies down in the prickly grass and remembers how large and tasty apricots, cherries, pears and cherries were once.

Aunt Ilka, who likes company, opens her house standing in the middle of a six-acre rose garden in the little town for the golden youth of the town. As a result of her benevolence, the tenants are in the position to adore not only the roses but a nice bunch of to-be-married girls of the town.

The insurance salesman I met at the church knows too much about him and her.

It seems to be an intermediate world of peace and quiet, the garden and country house where four people look back on testing lives. And forward, to the time they have left. On the one hand, there is regret – on the other, satisfaction. In a way, they are looking forward to the future – but at the same time, a longing for death regularly arises. And who is actually behind the camera? Are we watching actors or real people? Is there really any difference? Garten is full of contradictions – it is not until the credits roll that we realise who these people from very different backgrounds are.

Hikari is a newly expectant mother cohabiting with her boyfriend Taro. However, their relationship seems to be on the rocks. The couple has had trouble finding steady employment since graduating from college, and mounting financial problems further strain their relationship. Taro has a secret: he’s been relying on his eccentric aunt Kyoko, who has been acting strangely since losing her husband at a young age. Hikari’s first encounter with Kyoko does not go well, but Hikari visits Kyoko’s home unbeknownst to Taro and is introduced to a world where young women take part in bacchanals. This could spell doom for her relationship with Taro...

Impressionist performance of a ballet dancer to the music of Federico Mompou.

When a real estate salesman is threatening the peaceful idyll of an allotment garden area, their inhabitants make a stand to protect their little paradise.

A lonely woman asks a stork for a little boy. And he brings her a rabbit instead of a child. What came of it is told in a funny and sad story.

Short documentary with English narration that was prepared for the Inside Out: New Chinese Art exhibition at Asia Society in New York City, which ran from September 15, 1998 to January 3, 1999.

Using landscape shots from a series of Soviet collectivization films to expose relations of the Nature and the Hero, director challenges widespread understanding of socialist realism.

The film revolves around the story of a man named Ali who makes a living selling home-grown vegetables and his family. Ali’s parents have passed away. He lives with his grandfather Tahir and his brother Cemil. Tales of Ali’s womanizing stories are the talk of the town as he impresses girls with his smooth voice. Ali forgets all the other girls when he falls in love at first sight with Cemil’s teacher Gülsen. But Ali will misinterpret Gülsen’s feelings and get very disappointed. (İbrahim Veli Sözer)

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

French couple Jean and Marie go on their honeymoon in Jean's hometown in Africa. They end up in the middle of a tense political situation as soon as they arrive and must spend the night in hiding. Jean begins to take on some of his father's old French colonialist attitude, which comes into drastic conflict with their current situation. As they struggle to stay alive, Marie rethinks her marriage to Jean.

A couple eating at a restaurant. When I left the store and tried to go to the amusement park, I suddenly hit a passerby with a car. However, the two run away without stopping the car. I continued to drive while having a casual conversation, but I lost my way, perhaps because I was upset by the hit-and-run. On the way, they put a hitchhiking man in the car. A self-proclaimed novelist, he tells the story of "the story of the biggest fat in the world" and disappears into the deep forest.