The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons they inhabit. Practicing the art of seeing themselves, in Boal's words, this group of men reflects on their masculinity as a representation to hide their true strength: their vulnerability.
Marco GuagnelliEdgar Fernandez GallardoGustavo Alvares MorenoAnibalAntonio PlataJuan Carlos ReyesAlejandro SandriaFrancisco ValadezAngel CastellanosA 8mm short film.
A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.
Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)
At various points in its history, tiny St. John's Island was where Singapore's colonial founder Sir Stamford Raffles docked his ship upon arrival, a quarantine centre for immigrants and pilgrims returning from Mecca, a penal colony for political detainees and secret society leaders, and a sleepy holiday resort. Unlike its neighbouring islands, however, St. John's was never fully developed. It occupies an in-between space, the vestiges of its history scattered around the land. Its indeterminacy stands in sharp contrast to Singapore, where land use is meticulously planned to fulfil economic and social functions. In this film, St. John's Island - otherwise known as 'Bukit Orang Salah', a nickname coined by the people who were quarantined there - becomes a site of and for reflection, prompting questions about our history, heritage and identity.
The Jacobson Dogma
Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias come back to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter, who is going to marry the young and talented Filipe. Walter lives in a countryside house, where he celebrates the end of his youth and the beginning of a new moment in his life.
The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.
The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number was 50,000. Last year $40 billion in taxpayer dollars were spent in fighting the war on drugs. As a result of the incarceration obsession, the United States operates the largest prison system on the planet. Today, 89 percent of police departments have paramilitary units, and 46 percent have been trained by active duty armed forces. The most common use of paramilitary units is serving drug-related search warrants, which usually involve no-knock entries into private homes.
This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx in the spring of 1973. Engelmann briefly explains the individual work steps from mixing the casting slip to firing the clay heads and then painting them. An old craft is vividly captured on camera and accompanied by original sou
The story of Lieve, a young orphan who lives with her aunt in a house for elderly people. When she finds a wounded pigeon, she integrates it in her world of fantasies and is persuaded that the pigeon is Jesus.
A woman tells a story told in a poem about her life messing around with a lot of men.
A child is confronted to the first questions about procreation, in a world wanting to awaken him to sexuality.
Short film about the never-built 60-minute route from Hamburg to Berlin, on which the Transrapid was supposed to operate.
Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and how their joy in Christ results in a stunning conclusion.
A struggling screenwriter falls victim to an unscrupulous talent & literary agent while trying to break into the entertainment industry.
At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.
This horror machinima short by Alvin Soprano tells the story of little Lucy walking in on her recently deceased mother crossing over to the light.
Did you expect that evil had taken a vacation just because it's Christmas? Well, think again boys. Mr. Hyde appears at a prison in front of the inmates with a very different Christmas carol. And since he spends a lot of time on vaudeville, he sings and dance in this show as well.
In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.