Dreams

Luo Ming quits her job as an accountant and despite her husband's objections opens a bar in South China and counsels married couples.

What would happen if everything stopped? If the engine gears of the economy jammed for good? The Japanese island of Ikeshima is a place that seems to be ahead of its time, showing us a possible future. The few remaining inhabitants live in a surreal setting, clinging firmly to a normality that seems however to escape them. A dreamlike journey, which forces us to think about our relationship with the planet but also about social isolation and loneliness.

This film follows four artists living on the margins of society whose passionate discussions belie their stark and impoverished living conditions. The subjects are performance artist Li Wake, painters Wang Yongping and Ding Defu, and poet Motou Beibei, who is hailed online as a genius despite working as a security guard. Overcome by ennui, and lost in the uncertainties of their everyday lives and their artistic identities, the artists express certain hopelessness.

A biographical documentary exploring the utopian ideas of Harald Szeemann, the man who revolutionized the art exhibitions world.

Five Chinese workers recount their dreams. Their nocturnal suffering reflects their difficult and precarious professional experiences. ZHAO Xu builds a deft and disturbing mise en abyme that conveys a surreal sensation, comparable to that caused by a science-fiction film, overtaken by reality.

To escape from the dictates of contemporary capitalist society, an ultra-Orthodox American Jew moves with his family to a small illegal Israeli outpost in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, joining – for advantage and convenience – a "human avant-garde" that is an essential tool for the development and operation of the colonial mechanism. In this context of expropriation, Gedalia feels free to build his home and to try to fulfil his dream: a simple life, in harmony with God, outside the laws and duties of society. Life is but a dream is the story of the daily life of a settler's family, between contradictions, radical choices, difficulties, needs, and possible fears.

Personal document in which celebrated film veteran Kees Hin is portrayed in the final phase of life by his former apprentice and good friend Diego Gutiérrez. Their collaboration results in this compilation of seven short films, in which Gutiérrez invites the viewer to witness the gifted mind of 83-year-old Hin trying to stay active, creative and sane, as he fights against ageing and Parkinson's disease.

A man tries to survive in a lonely, abandoned and different world

A voice speaks from the television to the popular presenter David. With the help of a neurologist, he gives this vision a face and turns it into his alter ego - Adam. Soon his thought creature appears on the screens throughout Europe. The director of a broadcaster tries to use the resulting phenomenon for her interests ...

Orthodox teacher and wigmaker, Ruchama and Tikva, embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within the closed society in which they live. Ruchama is writing and producing her first film while Tikva prepares for her first acting role. Like other orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical censorship. The Dreamers delicately sketches the portrait of women trying to break new ground as artists in a patriarchal world. Will they find freedom in their art.

"Sonho de Pedra" is freely inspired by deep dreams that snatch us from some principle while awakening us after the impact of a rupture, in the pain of mourning and under the immemorial force of the desire for continuity. Bodies that detach themselves from the Ground is a place of passage, from the body in the tiniest state to the unusual.

A small mouse relies on his cleverness and his friends to make his crazy dream of flying with swallows come true.

Dreams that appeared in every her sleep taking Rengganis on a "magical" journey with no clear end. He undertook the journey to find out the meaning of his dream, and also to confirm the whereabouts of his lover who had been away for a long time and had never returned.

Like many other seniors in Germany, Petra receives terribly low retirement which makes her very poor. After paying rent and utilities, she is left with about 100 euros a month for food and other expenses, of which she barely survives in such an expensive city as Hamburg. Petra refuses to accept such circumstances. She belongs to a new generation of seniors, who do not feel that life should be over just because you are growing old. She decides to leave everything in Germany behind and move far away, to Eastern Europe looking for a better life.

In this small fragment from the cartoon A Wonderful Dream, a rotund man pines for delicious stuff. First, he watches enviously through a keyhole at a clown who’s holding a party. Then a naughty decanter of water on the table conjurs up thoughts of neat whiskey. (stumfilm.dk)

a short that tells the story of a young man who wants to become a superhero but on his first day a tragedy happens to him

The failed actor Rui inherits a millionaire apartment from his father and decides to put the sale on to realize his dream. Rui wants to star in a remake of a famous film by Chuck Norris fighting in Vietnam. At the same time he must try to sell the apartment, negotiate the rights to produce the film and still deal with his love life.

The film is about the life of a "cheerful milkman", a Native American living and working in Siberia.

The film shows a convent in Alto Adige run by just two nuns, bilogical sisters. To make sure that "those out there don´t think two nuns no longer make a convent", they try to keep up a full range of activities. The women´s headstrong character and their stubborn insistence on autonomy and self-dependency creates situations that are both touching and funny, and entirely unexpected in a place like this.

Wang Dahe, a successful man, lost everything after he was frames. He falls into depression, but still wants make up for the regrets of his youth. By drinking the regret medicine he can start his life again and again.