This Is Nothing

An exercise in gentle voyeurism revealing glimpses of the secret side of Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, filming a derelict prostitution zone.

I never knew how to face death. I just lose myself. The darkness shelters and the light overwhelms.

The cider-making process : an art of knowing how to poetize reality.

A miniature movie, kids inhabit the landscape and communicate through the river, the sky, the air.

Danish documentary from 2007 about Ann and Am, two Thai women who were cheated to Europe with promises of well-paid jobs, but forced to work as prostitutes. For several years they lived as slaves in a basement. Here you can follow the women back to the basement and it will be a psychologically difficult journey where they re-live many of their traumatic memories.

An ordinary day of an ordinary girl may be interesting if we change our point of view?

A weekend in the Bavarian Alps. 25-year-old Hannes meets his father after 8 years of separation in a little mountain hut. By the influence of their very different girlfriends Ann and Lavinia, the stage-director-father and his actor-son cautiously try to make a new start. A bold venture, leading all of them to an abyss of unforeseen cruelty.

Two friends meet by chance at a street corner. A debate ensues between them…

Entrepreneur Silly Wong returns from overseas having made a fortune there. His godson Tsim Tsui-mau and wife Ho Bit-siu, and friend George Cheung use every trick in the book, even hiring the alluring singer Lin Yung-so, to entertain and curry favour with the loaded returnee. Unfortunately Wong's saving, totalling 10 million dollars, is only due to arrive in two weeks. Penniless, he remains evasive over financial matters. Tsim thinks that Wong is a swindler and leaves in a fit of anger. Lin gives him a hand in his moment of need, and love blossoms between them. Mau and others believe that Lin must have gathered evidence of Wong's wealth and thus forcibly take him home. Realising Tsim's snobbishness, Wong admits to a fuming Tsim that he a broke man. Finally the money arrives. Wong cherishes Lin's love and marries her, but shows the door to the remorseful Tsim and friends.

Web mini-series created by Russian comedian Danila Poperechny. Six months after his big stand-up concert, Danila realizes that she is in a severe creative crisis. Trying to get advice from his friend and promoter Sasha, Danila accidentally sees a report in which his grandmother is brought to tears by cunning TV men.

A portrait of Spanish visual artist, writer and art critic Elena Asins (1940-2015), a key figure in geometric abstraction since the sixties.

Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room – internship, Portugal, everything canceled. But her room is occupied. Her mother, Trixi, has rented it out. Zach lives there now, a twenty-something from New Zealand, who came to Germany on a one-way ticket. Starting from this situation, the film develops an almost documentary-style portrait of a Kreuzberg ‘situation’: everything is readily available, time, people, summer, streets. And in the end a crash, the film itself: ‘for nothing’?

Following a break-up, a single mother and her only daughter takes refuge in a small hotel in Tel Aviv. In an attempt to pick up the pieces, a fragile relationship is revealed between the daughter hiding behind the camera and the mother’s efforts to reassemble herself and start over.

At first glance, Grandma MUI and Uncle CHEUNG look just like another ordinary elderly couple loitering outside a school wall. Grandma MUI is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and her conditions deteriorate notably after the death of her granddaughter Ka-ching from a fall off the school building, with the school officials suspected of negligence and being dishonest in their testimony. Stricken by grief, Grandma MUI’s mind falls into complete chaos as memories, delusions and reality mesh together. Uncle CHEUNG, indirectly connected to Ka-ching’s death, lacks the courage to tell the truth. As an act of atonement, he takes care of Grandma MUI even when the future looks bleak…

Frederick and Lucienda's lives were a tranquil and happy one until the fateful day when she and their home are targeted by an organization calling itself the "Templar Order". Go back in time and witness the beginning lessons and most telling memories of Frederick Julian as he embarks on a journey to reunite with an old friend and devote his allegiance to the guided philosophy "Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted".

At 16, Amir decides to break up with his boyfriend and pursue an active sex life with no string attached. It's in this search that he meets Emilio, an older kid he ends up falling in love with.

The New Year's comedy "Aliens have nothing to do" is a collection of five stories that tell the fate of eight people. According to the storyline, all the stories are intertwined with each other and in the finale they will be united by a common thought about rethinking life values.

The Caribbean Thilda Purperhart lives with her daughter Joyce in a rowdy flat in the Bijlmer. Thilda has a son Kelvin who is ill, he has AIDS. She keeps him carefully hidden in the house, so that this will not bring any shame to the family. As a result, the boy does not receive medication and his situation worsens. Their secret seems safe until one day the doorbell rings and Julius, a Dutch-Caribbean man standing at the door looking for his old friend.