Lights

An elder lighthouse keeper takes care of what has been his home for years. Old and secluded from society, he's disturbed by mysterious bottled letters. These and an unexpected malfunction make him doubt his job, his life and his existence.

In this short film, M.A. Blanca, together with the co-director Jordi Díaz Fernández, continues to explore the visual style of Quiero Lo Eterno, and also partially retakes the reflection on the impact of the human being in the environment through technology, solitude, death... and taxidermy.

The prostitutes of Bombay live a nightmare life, yet there are some people who try to bring a little light into the darkness of the brothels. The film follows the lives of women in two brothels in the slums of Bombay. Some of the women are old, some are very young, but they have all been cheated into the business. And cheated out of life. For ten years now, Vinay, a social worker, has been trying to help them by saving them from AIDS and giving them some comfort. Although they are degraded and exploited outcasts, these women manage to retain some human dignity and cheerfulness. And some hope.

Emotionally charged story about three women standing against male dominated church preventing them from following their calling to serve God and their communities. Protestan female ministers who wish to serve God, the Church and people as pastors in today’s Latvia can only do that under the wing of foreign churches. Latvia is the only country in the world whose official Lutheran church has banned ordination of women after successfully practicing it for two decades. While some of the women ministers, refusing to accept this, leave the country to build lives as fully-fledged pastors elsewhere in the world, others carry on serving as second-rate assistants or other church workers. However, today there are female theologians who are ready to fight for a future in more equal society thus ending the discrimination based on ‘other sex’ or ‘wrong’ gender. The road towards changes leads through frustrations, confidence and doubts, obedience and rebellion.

A lighthouse keeper’s surprising discovery pulls him out of his daily routine and takes him into uncharted territory.

A documentary about Croatia's capital aspirations of becoming metropolis. Camera follows everyday life of random city-goers. Title cards bring interesting plot twists, indeed making this film a mockumentary. One of the earliest preserved pieces of cinema in Croatia.

1894. The mortal remains of Lajos Kossuth are brought home from abroad, the railways are lined with people with their hats in hand, and among them stands the teenager Imre Tányér. 1910. The grown-up Imre undertakes the task to solve the question unsolved since 1848-49, i.e. the transformation of peasant life. He fights for the rights of his class, for justice, for human dignity in a society distorted, backward and built on inequality.

A pair of Butoh dancers perform simultaneously in an empty room.

Seori tells the story of a fire that broke out at an institute for girls in 1995, and a girl named Yurim, who was petrified of fire but was nevertheless determined to start a fire.

Deepa, a schizophrenic patient, loses her normalcy due to a mishap that occurred in her personal life. Dr. Surajit Sen takes this case as a challenge to prove that an injured mind needs more care and a better understanding than any medicine on therapy. The film portrays how the doctor gets intimate with his patient and slowly gets into the detail of her crisis and enables her to lead a normal life.

My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and decided to photograph and develop pictures of her at two different ages.

Sara waits at home for her abusive partner Andrés. A night that will test her sanity and the foundations of her relationship awaits her.

For the first time the history of lightouses in Iceland is traced in a unique documentary. Over them rests mystery as they stand in a magnificent setting at the boundaries of land and sea, attractingpeople from all over the world. They hold a story about how Iceland came to b contemporary society in engineering and architecture, but also capturing the imagination and being an endless inspiration from the past to the future.

There is a distance, emotionally not only physically, between Jimena and her grandmother, Miri. This is a way to try and get closer, to understand, to accept, mixing past and present she tries to find her grandmother, in an attempt to reconnect with something that once existed, but that it no longer does.

Jerzy Kalina's first film, animated using coloured grains to depict a fantastical, vividly coloured genesis. The creation of the world and the dawn of life in under ten minutes.

Fighting for a lottery ticket, two star-crossed lovers and a big flock of greedy fools experienced an eccentric night. Love is never simply the bond between two souls. It gets even more complicated when comes to money. Casino host Wei Wei and her boyfriend Chi-ho put all of their hope and energy into winning the weekly lottery, until one day Lady Luck makes them the jackpot winners. Struggling with huge debt loads due to a wrong investment decision, Chi-ho is overjoyed by this sudden change in his fortunes; however, having to choose between love and money, Wei Wei is planning something different. With luck and misfortune coming at the same time, can they still hold on to a faint ray of hope?

When the essence of Love is snatched from someone and locked away in a vessel with no name, what happens to those persons and how do they change? How can the broken hearted souls break that curse and recover from their pain? Can they regain their spark by overcoming dark supernatural forces?

Pablo and Marius found out a surprising thing regarding their childhood friend, Alice. She manages to synthesize in a sound way the light that she is exposed to. This gift is gradually transformed into a curse when it becomes the instrument of their musical experiences.

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