Cry For The Strangers

Los Angeles City Hall is reflected onto the window of the Paradise Motel. It serves as an anchor for this traversal through the natural expanse of California. Here, we discover a restrained psychodrama of play, loss, and the transformation of everyday habitats. Music appears across the interiors and exteriors and speaks of limitlessness and longing.

At the end of the busy year of 1997, we ended up filming a documentary produced by Jorge Timm. Jorjão's restaurant was very close to the Uruguay River, on Ilha Redonda, and there was a river flood, which rose about eleven meters above the normal level - two meters less than the record high of 1983 - and displaced many people. Claudio Baiestorf, Carli and I went there to record the damage, interview homeless people and invent delusions. We arrived at the place and realized that Jorge had greatly exaggerated, via telephone, the size of the flood damage. There were not even homeless people. Thanks to warnings from the civil defense, all residents had taken precautions. We opened a whiskey and started filming anyway.

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases away a sailor who was hassling a shy girl, Ofuji, which makes Ohama jealous.

When an alluring young undergrad becomes infatuated with her nearly retired professor, she stirs up the man's humdrum home life in a most unusual way.

Sometimes you cry in other peoples’ homes. You ring up and say: I don’t want them to hear, I don’t want them to see me. Can you give me the keys to your place? In return you clean up, you vacuum a little or you leave a few choco- lates on the kitchen table. You have several sets of keys, several places to cry and bags full of gifts to leave there.

Four young Moroccans, like thousands of others, cross the sea illegally to work in Spain.

Tolga is confused. His girlfriend has left him, but he feels no sense of sadness. But he wants to change that. So he asks his best friend Burak, an imaginative guy who sells kebabs, how he could cry. Burak, who is an expert in feelings, or at least in showing feelings, offers him various techniques. But the more he tries, the more Tolga begins to question his own friendship. Up to the point where Burak asks him a very serious question…

A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.

To protest the construction of a new car lot, a young guy named Bernat comes to the vacant lot in order to tie himself to the only left living tree. Upon arrival, Bernat finds Joel, an unknown young man who also has decided to tie himself up.

One day, Tina’s ex-husband Lenchik and his young wife Alina unceremoniously invade Tina’s apartment. A schoolteacher, intelligent and sophisticated, Tina can do nothing to oppose the impudent impudence of her ex-husband. The situation gets even worse when Alina abandons her newborn son and hides in an unknown direction. Lenchik decides to return to his relationship with Tina. And he acts with his usual unceremoniousness.

In 1998, the corpses of murdered Serbs were exhumed from a mass grave near the Orthodox church, transported and buried at the city cemetery in Trebinje. The documentary tells about the tragic fate of the Živak family.

At the beginning of 1942, the Japanese army swept the base area in northwest Shanxi. In order to combat the arrogance of the Japanese army, Li Yunlong led an independent regiment to attack Ping'an County. Japanese troops from all walks of life came to the rescue one after another, and all the troops of our army blocked them. Li Zhenghu was instructed to lead a cavalry company to defend. Relying on the unique terrain, he fought hard with the Japanese army and made huge sacrifices to help Li Yunlong's main attacking force successfully capture the county town of Ping'an, causing heavy damage to the enemy...

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

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In Marseilles, there are those who work in the port and the others. The myth of an impenetrable world and a protesting working class is nourished on both sides. Above and beyond this border, the film is a fantastic & dreamlike immersion at the heart of this slowly disappearing world.

In a quiet, secluded and idyllic countryside resort, every time the plaintive words of the song "The Crying Tree" are heard, a wave of fear ripples through the guests. When the music stops, they know another one among them will have been gruesomely murdered. What was once a paradise, is turning into a hell on Earth. But how can they stop these vicious attacks and who is responsible... a vengeful spirit or one of them?

A fringe theater group that brings the stories of gay people in Israel to the stage takes on the Edinburgh Theater Festival in Scotland.