Streaming The Weeke

A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. "But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence."

This DVD brings a selection often issues ofthe newsreel A Week in Film from the period of 1970-1979. Each newsreel contains several brief news reports from various areas of the life of contemporary society, such as politics, economy, science, cultural events, and sports. By the choice of themes and the method of their conveying this mosaic of film reports offers a picture of at times somewhat bizzarre atmosphere of our communist past. Today, these weeklies, each screened in cinemas before the main film feature, are a valuable testimony of their time.

Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men and enjoys their company, but there is a limit beyond which she won't go, since she is faithful to her Filip, who is doing his military service. On Sunday the girl awaits Filip to arrive on a short period of leave, but instead his friend Míla (Frantisek Nemec) turns up and apologizes for Filip, who has to stay in the barracks.

In a public mall bathroom, Lilly, François, and their 6-year-old daughter bid farefell to an unborn family member.

Weekday Night (Soir de semaine) in an animated slumber party made up of drawn observations evoking feelings of exaltation, humor and intimacy inherent to those nights.

When a weekend at Selmsey's farm turns deadly, they must fight to survive against a wild creature - far away from its home.

A middle-aged businessman is left by his wife, who was dissatisfied with their marital routine. For the first time, he is left alone and without obligations. He meets a young gypsy girl, a singer in a pub orchestra, and begins to wander the city with her, discovering a completely different world.

A wife and a husband who got married for 3 years, come to the lodge for a weekend trip.​

Week 23 follows the battle of Rahel, the daughter of Swiss Bishop, through a high-risk identical twin pregnancy. At the 6th month of the pregnancy, Rahel was informed that one of the fetuses lost pulse and is lying dead alongside to his living twin brother. Due to the high risk for physical disability & brain damage for the surviving fetus, all doctors, without exception, recommended the termination of Rahel's pregnancy; In other words- killing the living fetus.

The film follows seven days of a young gypsy, with a short excerpt from each day. Through these brief 'life' images, the film gives a dark and fragmented portrait of Kristóf, similar in style to Hungarian fiction documentaries of the 1970s and 1980s. A life at a standstill with no possibility of change is documented in the figure of the protagonist: Kristóf has neither the social background nor the education to turn his fate around.

David spends his vacation with Pamela, his cousin. In the middle of a heatwave, Javier comes to break with their boredom. Later on, David develops a desire towards Javier, which leads him to use his personal items. As the heatwave intensifies, so does his desire.

Times and destinies intersect at an iconic vintage store. The film is a philosophical observation.

What happened in Rwanda in 1994 was not simply the spontaneous eruption of inter-ethnic hatred. It was planned genocide, on an industrial scale. Something that was prepared for at least a year in advance. Lists were made. Weapons were collected. RTLM radio spent months conditioning their audience to believe that one sector of their population represented a threat.

The monotonous routine of a retiree is irreparably shaken by the unexpected visit of his son. How long does he intend to stay? Or - how long has he already been here?

Wochende (Weekend) is a film initially commissioned by the Berlin Radio Hour. Prior to Weekend, Ruttmann had made numerous celebrated avant-garde films, namely Opus I-IV, and the spectacular Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927). The advent of sound films dawned, and, interested in how spectators perceive sound, he premiered a film without pictures. On June 13th, 1930, the audience took their seats, the lights went down, and the sound of the film was heard. But the screen was completely blank.

A short film featuring a teenager raging after realizing that school is next week.

This film is a combination of genres (docu-fiction, comedy-musical, mockumentary and drama-ponele) endowed with grace. It is a culebronizado backstage of the rehearsals of the musical Ella, homage to Rafaella Carrá, where Christopher Guest entrenches a group of dancers and choreographers, following them closely in their problems of love and of makeup. It shows situations of contagious pop vitality, and music and dance set the stage for a shocking ending, which kindly suggests rethinking various representation problems: Schipani and Montiel seem to have known in advance that it is dangerous to always tell the truth