Garden Of The Moon

Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired shrine to the namelessly holy.

It's Christmas time. Shortie, Beanpole, Alekos and Sinoue, everyday people, decide to reinvent themselves because in the garden of god everything seems the same. They play ball, keep notes, lose their friends, strike their enemies, working out in the yard, learning how to dance, reciting poetry. They drink alcohol, paint, set fire to their bodies. And they promised to themselves, this Christmas to "make their way down" to the sea.

In a beautiful garden called Ecos, there are a variety of creatures there who neatly fulfill vital roles in the healthy ecological system of the area. However, this state of reasonable environmental harmony is disrupted when a new species of grub like creatures begin to ravish the land of a needed fruit. This folly leads to the disruption of the environment of the garden while this greed leads to a series of events that have tragic consequences.

Orphan Ma Tianyou was raised by nuns in a Macau monastery, and grew up with Sister Connie, who knows the truth about his parents but kept it secret. At 19, Tianyou goes to HK to find his birth parents and ends up living with retired Dr. Fung. He meets the Wong family and falls in love with Ah Heung, but their relationship is complicated by their sibling-like bond. Back in Macau, Sister Connie reveals the painful truth that Tianyou's father is Fung's son, Fung Yue-lai, who had a complicated past with her and her friend who died giving birth to Tianyou. After struggling to accept his philandering father, Tianyou gradually reconciles with him.

When a paper dragon escapes from his little friends, cow Moo, bear Bee and rabbit Doo have no idea that in searching for it they'll discover a secret garden. What lies behind the closed doors?

On a rainy night, a sad man leaves his home to deliver a letter to someone who recently left him. At a corner, he meets a woman who warns him about the slippery road. This is how I met Diana, two years ago, when I moved to central Porto and did not know where to park my scooter. I transformed this brief encounter into an allegory: suffering from a heartbreak, Gonçalo falls from his motorbike and is taken to the hospital. The letter is taken by fate to the hands of Diana who looks after him and cures his wounds. Rapidly they become friends. Love slaps dark visions and together they discover that plants always find their way to the light, like a lost letter ends up reaching its true addressee.

Short film.

An ordinary housewife's life goes in an unexpected direction after noticing a strange smell in her backyard.

«Nel giardino dei suoni» («In The Garden of Sounds») is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication. Nicola Bellucci tells the extraordinary story of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind musician and soundscape artist who works with severely handicapped children, helping them to find their place in a world not made for them. On his own way into the darkness, Fasser discovered the world of sounds, a parallel universe to our visual world. His far-reaching explorations of sound’s effect on mind and body led him to the field of music therapy.

The story of a loving man and father who falls under the influence of an extremely orthodox Protestant sect. He sacrifices everything and everyone to this faith, including his business and the respect of his younger son. However, he never loses the love of his wife.

Vera Andreyevna and Grigory Petrovich are an elderly couple who have had a long and happy life together. One day in the market Vera Andreyevna runs into an untidy and half-drunk old man whom she recognizes with difficulty. It is Alyosha, who was in the same orphanage with her and who had been her first love. Reminiscences overwhelm them and stir their hearts. Alexei Ivanovich, who had lived a far from easy life, undergoes an amazing change. He begins to look younger and more orderly. Vera Andreyevna feels she is a woman again, a woman who has to make her choice.

Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the result of a temporary marriage, which allows a man to marry a woman even if he is already married. Children born from such a relationship are legally non-existent. As long as the father does not recognize the child, no birth certificate can be issued and Nila cannot attend school. The documentary depicts Leyla's tireless efforts to clarify Nila's legal status in order to offer her a perspective for her future. In a never-ending bureaucratic battle, Leyla fights not only against the legal system, but also against a judgmental society.

When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where the artist's work becomes the background for their physical passion and emotional discovery.

A 90-second short showing a fairytale-like story of an abandoned art academy and the students who once resided there.

A satirical and insightful story telling that that man creates the space around and can make a terrible place even from heaven. Thus, Adam and Eve fall there where nature blooms, unusual and rare species of birds are singing, and plants are fragrant. But these two manage to destroy the creatures living there turn the fruit of the apple tree into a self-made alcohol.

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

A stop motion animation using several phenakistoscopes of a polyhedron and other materials. Five “Egg birds” appears in the artificial garden.

Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something from their mutual past that will explain the reason for Lucien’s father’s strange behavior.

A group of teenagers dream of adventures and experiencing something unusual, mysterious and romantic. The boys play treasure hunters and detectives in an old park adjacent to a modern housing estate. By accident, the heroes find the trail of a youth gang that stole the documentation of a sensational preparation that can be used in the preparation of animal feed. The gang members manage to suspect the inventor of the preparation, the engineer Tyc. His son, Andrzej, and his friends decide to expose the real criminals and find maps that are to indicate the place of the hidden treasure.

A film based on the Oath of the Peach Garden which is a fictional event in the 14th-century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.