Thatched Memories 2000
Caofangzi (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 17 August 2000 (Hong Kong)
Storyline:
The vivid far off memories of Youmadi, an old country school of his days of childhood, live on with fervor and a special intensity in the mind of Sangsang. The very first feelings of life and those of death, and all the many people who somehow by some unexplained act of fate, entered and influenced the special life and times of Sangsang’s boyhood world…
Amerikanka 2001
1h 30min | Comedy | 27 January 2001 (Hungary)
User review:
One of the best movies I have ever seen. It is very different from mainstream films that you can see in most of the movie-theaters worldwide.
Iki Haole: Nico’s Hawaiian Adventure 1995
Iki Haole: Nico’s Hawaiian Adventure 1995
53min | Reality-TV, Adventure | Video 1995
Storyline:
15 year old Nico visits Hawaii and makes friends with David C. Naughton. Nico and the audience gets a tour of the beautiful state along with lots of surfing.
La otra familia 2011
1h 40min | Drama | 25 March 2011 (Mexico)
Storyline:
The story of Hendrix, a 7-year-old child that’s been abandoned by his crack-addict mother Nina. Ivana, her best friend rescues him, however, she can’t take care of him because of an ongoing trip to Houston. Jean Paul and Chema, an adult, stable, gay couple, and friends of Ivana, were given the task of taking care of Hendrix while his mother spends some time in rehab. Patrick, Nina’s lover and dealer is being chased by a drug-lord, because of a huge debt. In an attempt to get the money he tries to sell Hendrix to a young couple, who just lost a baby. While Nina tries to escape rehab in search of her son, Hendrix slowly adapts to his new life with Jean Paul and Chema. Patrick’s running out of time and urges Nina to find her misplaced son.
Schlafes bruder 1995
R | 2h 7min | Drama, Music, Romance | 5 October 1995 (Germany)
Storyline:
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an “acoustic wonder”, his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds. Elias falls in platonic love with Elsbeth, the sister of Peter, a neighbor’s son, who has longstanding homosexual feelings towards Elias. After Elsbeth, out of frustration from Elias’ not returning her love and instead being obsessed with music, chooses to be impregnated and marries someone else who lose love she had spurned for Elias. The village burns and most villagers, including Elsbeth, evacuate to the closest town. Elias remains behind. Having heard of “the prodigy in the alps”, a music master seeks out Elias and invites him to an organ challenge in the town where the villagers relocated. Elias performs there and amazes the audience which includes Elsbeth. She is unable to meet with Elias before he is rushed to a waiting carriage. She calls to him and he hears her, but it is too late. Elias is taken on a brief tour by his mentors but soon returns to his spiritual site near the burnt village where he takes his own life (with Peter by his side), having decided to not sleep anymore. Elsbeth later returns there, a widow with a young daughter, hoping to find Elias but instead discovers his spiritual site has disappeared.
Thief or Reality 2001
Thief or Reality 2001
Kleftis i I pragmatikotita (original title)
1h 23min | Drama | 11 January 2002 (Greece)
Storyline:
Angelidi’s highly theatrical, experimental and allegorical film is divided into three independently existing segments that intertwine because of the involvement of the Thief, the connecting link between the three reality perspectives. The three segments are The Net, The Dice and Free Will, each one representing a philosophical idea and a natural element, (Fate-Fire, Chance-Water, Free Will-Earth), respectively. A sculptress of funereal memorials has visions of the Last Judgment, a mother who lost her son attaches herself to remnants of memory and fantastical visions of encounters, and an actor prepares for Antigone, with fictional reality invading his existential realm. The film explores the different levels of reality that can be experienced: the metaphysical (Death, God and religion), the tangible (love and mother-son relationships), and the externalization of the soul through art (theater and fiction). The Thief stands for Time, as time is a thief and destroys everything.
Quelque part vers Conakry 1992
Quelque part vers Conakry 1992
1h 18min | Drama | 16 June 1993 (France)
Storyline:
1971: Guinea, thirteen years after independence. A revolutionary storm is brewing on the streets of the city of Fria. Somewhere near Conakry – Children play, far from the adults’ worries. The gigantic land stretches from the savanna to the marshes. In this mosaic of people in conflict, Jacques leads his warriors though an Africa that has been torn apart, where only children and the elderly have kept a innocent look in their eyes. Beyond the taboos and laws governing the country, Jacques and Madiou, the little African boy, will experience the trial of friendship and parting.
Szamarkohoges 1987
Szamarkohoges 1987
1h 31min | Comedy, Drama | 3 September 1987 (Hungary)
Storyline:
The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they’re happy because the schools are closed. But gradually, to adults and children comes the understanding that something terrible is happening. Disappearing relatives, friends, and even killed some. Tips sent an army to put down the counterrevolutionary rebellion.
