Sex The City And Me

The owner of a dancing and singing folk troupe searches for her missing daughter who went missing years ago. When she dies, the troupe's members locate the girl in Sharm El-Sheikh. She's been looking for them just as they were looking for her.

The portrayal of a city that refuses to die along with its defunct Soviet-era nuclear power plant. The mainly Russian speaking citizens there face identity issues in modern Lithuania. This portrayal inevitably raises questions of democracy, inclusion, citizenship, and freedom of expression.

Slaughtering chickens for a living, Tao spends most of his time in close proximity with the birds which seem to be the only companions to his solitude. Until one day three strange gangsters come to hide in the abandoned building where he is living in, bringing violence, noisy drunkenness, bullying and a young prostitute. Turning for the worst, the situation will precipitate into a spiral of muted love and cruel torture to an utterly unpredictable outcome.

Mr. Safari, an 80-year-old pensioner, lives alone and without direction. When his son, living abroad, tries to arrange for his elderly father to visit him, Mr. Safari becomes dangerously obsessed with a local female travel agent who is hired to help. Co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, Taxi), this provocative story delivers a quietly powerful statement about loneliness and those who get left behind in contemporary Tehran.

For nine years in the 1950s, Jan Troell worked as a teacher at the Sorgenfri primary school in Malmö (an experience he drew on for his study of a teacher's relationship with his class, Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?) in 1968); he lived in a house once occupied by Ingmar Bergman. In Malmö, Troell made his first film, Stad (The City), about a day in the life of Malmö, showing the life of the people from dawn until dusk.

Laila runs away from a life of disconnection and emptiness abroad, she wants her old world back in Amman. Yet 14 years changed everything. Unannounced and uninvited, her attempts to construct a new life turn out to be much harder than she thought.

A spacecraft will crash land on Earth at any time, but no one knows when and where. Poetically portrayed about waiting and changing perspectives in a medium-sized city.

This film depicts the journey of a Mexican, Roberto, resident in China. On his way to renew his visa, Roberto meets an African at a railway station between China and Hong Kong. “Why is an African in China?” soon changes into a reflexive inquiry: “Why is a Mexican in China?” Roberto explores the African residents’ community in China and finds many new friends. The film is thus multi- and trans-national, with a Korean director filming the process as a Mexican resident in China explores its African community.

When he received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Jacques Dubochet saw his life turned upside down. Moving from shadow to light, he is in demand from all sides. What to do with this voice now heard by all? How to find its place and define the struggles to be led? How to become a “Nobel Citizen”, with the objective of assuming his responsibility as a researcher and a member of the human community?

A tension building thriller at every turn, Dar Emtedad Shahr opens with the begins of a jewellery store robbery, and then goes back in time to explore the events leading up to it. In doing so, the major players are introduced: the pair of robbers themselves, the jewellery store owner, his ill wife and doctor mistress and a disenfranchised celebrity. When the robbery goes wrong and the jewellery store owner is shot, all stories begin to collide as a hostage situation escalates. Who exactly will survive? And what will be left of those who do?

For several months, Sloviansk was occupied by pro-Russian fighters. Local residents were first in Ukraine to meet tanks, artillery and other modern weapons. Now it is peaceful tourist city, children play on the streets. But what are their games?

In a city hung between two endless walls, a boy with only pigeons for company, tries to seduce his remote neighbor with wacky inventions.

Stockholm sunset with night lights.

After working late at night, a man heads for a car parked on the road to return home. The inside of the man's small car is a world completely cut off from the outside. In a world of only himself and his music, a man expresses all his suppressed desires.

This documentary narrates the different stages through which the Peruvian cumbia genre has passed. The story is told by the leading musicians of this movement, such as Jaime Moreyra and Julio Simeón from the group Los Shapis, Edilberto Cuestas from Los Ecos, Jorge Rodríguez from Los Mirlos, “Tito” Caycho from Los Destellos and Rossy War, among others equally outstanding. Their testimonies are commented on by specialists who observe the Peruvian cumbia as a sociocultural phenomenon such as Carlos Iván Degregori, Gonzalo Portocarrero, Rodrigo Montoya and Teófilo Altamirano

In a town (another town... not ours, these things always happen somewhere else!) a dictator seizes power. Based on the music composed in 1930 by A.Schönberg for a silent film which was never carried out.

Impressions of New York City. Experimental short.