“To have a penis is to be chained to a madman” wrote Sophocles more than 2500 years ago. He was right then and he is still right today. Donald Trump won the White House despite his openly misogynist and chauvinistic stands. Intellectuals, feminists, activists,...
This documentary delves into the experiences of four older people whose lives were marked by the rivers, lakes and canals of Mexico City, when water was much more present in the metropolitan area than it is today. This documentary seeks to narrate how we have lived...
Jess, a15-year-old loner, arrives at a travelling Circus, surprising her estranged father Mick. He reluctantly lets her stay with him, his Romanian girlfriend Nadia and toddler Katerina. Jess thinks it’s all going to be great. However, Circus life and people are...
Paris is the City of Love. Some come looking for love, others to celebrate their love, still others in hopes of keeping love alive. Think about the thousand of locks on the bridges of Paris. Every lock has a love story behind it. Some funny, some sad, some...
Pedro is a small farmer who has just acquired his first plot of land. To try to cancel the debt, he invests all of his family’s savings in non-transgenic seeds, provoking a small disruption in the local productive chain. Together with his wife and their only son,...
In a not too distant future: Europe is ravaged by religious civil wars, epidemic plagues have decimated the survivors. Omar, a powerful warlord reigns with an iron fist. All books are burnt. Music is outlawed and prohibited. Most of the people cannot write nor read....
An intimate family drama of guilt and self-forgiveness is portrayed in day-by-day linear episodes from the lives of a forty-year-old son and his seventy-year-old mother at the time of the father’s illness – a severe stroke – and the resultant coma from which they both...
A sunny afternoon at the beach in Odessa. A few people hanging out at the beach notice a boat drifting along the shoreline. In the boat they find a naked corpse of a young woman. Her face and body are partially mangled by birds, her right arm has been cut off above...
Refused and pulled back by heavy police controls and barricades in Ventimiglia/Menton, many refugees have no choice but to walk north, through mountain paths and train tunnels, to cross the infamous border of Italy and France. Thirty kilometers north they find the...
Europe, 2027. Ultraconservative governments decided to send all those who attempt suicide to obligatory therapies and tattoo them with a semicolon – just like the moment in the sentence where it could end but still continues. Helena and Anna, both after suicide...
1971/08/20. Jan Gerhard, a politician, soldier, writer and celebrity of his time, is murdered in Warsaw. The case is investigated by the best men from all existing law enforcement entities, including Anna, an ambitious forensic scientist, and Henryk, a Civic Militia...
Valentin is twentyfive years old and lives in Paris. He grew up in Bucharest before moving to Belgium as a teenager. He is one of the kids in the documentary ‘Gara de Nord: copii per strada’ shot by Antonio Martino in 2005. At the time Bucharest was full of abandoned...