Passe Passe

Story freely adapted from the novel by Marcel Ayme. Independent project, turning from deformed and projected scenery and puppets (scales vary).

Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow him. The others preferred to stay and testify before the court.

The story of Cross Words is based on a news item, which quickly becomes a pretext for a sensitive, sensual portrait of a generation represented by two main characters, Pierre and Mila, and a group of thirty-somethings. They’re journalists, teachers, carpenters and artists, between Paris, Marseille and Brussels. Valero portrays fragments of everyday life, interweaving them with impressionistic urban and bucolic slivers.

Bushra, a beautiful woman, devotes her life to her career as a nurse, saves the life of Inspector Karim, who, together with his aides, sought to dismantle a terrorist cell, before he fell in love with her and married her.

Soldiers on a mission from a fort on the Northwest Frontier of British-Raj India argue over tactics as they seek to deal with reports of a native uprising.

Double Passing (Dvoynoy obgon) is a 1984 Soviet crime movie directed by Aleksandr Gordon. Truckers Viktor and Ivan Petrovich transport a valuable cargo on a highway in uninhabited territory in the South of USSR. A pair of criminals, seasoned "Bug" and young and ill-tempered "Lyon'ka", hijack the truck. Capt. Madzhiev of the road patrol chases the truck while the truckers are hold by criminals and their life is in grave danger.

A man in his fifties returns home accompanied by his dog. Arriving home, he begins to tidy up the belongings of his wife who he has just lost. When he opens his wife's Sunday bag, he discovers a photo of a stranger.