Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Filmul este o adaptare a unui roman științifico-fantastic foarte popular în țările Europei de Est („Picnic la margine de drum” de Arkadi și Boris Strugatki) și folosește procedeele specifice genului - din nou un fenomen misterios, poate de origine extraterestră, care ar materializa dorințele cele mai intime ale exploratorilor săi păcătoși - pentru a pune întrebări fundamentale despre umanitate, memorie, dorință și disperare.

Acest film, care nu contine imagini explicite ale cerului, este plin de o nemasurata si senina lumina. Subiectul lui este zborul. Prima incercare este aceea a lui Eftm de a zbura. Tot filmul sugereaza apoi eforturile lui Rubliov de a zbura, prin intermediul artei sale.

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Rusia, al Doilea Război Mondial. Ivan (Nikolai Burliaev), un băiat de 12 ani, a cărui mamă a fost ucisă, devine cercetaș, trăiește intens viața de front și moare executat de naziști. Obiectivul (director de imagine: Vadim Iusov) surprinde nu numai ceea ce vede eroul, ci și ceea ce gândește, visează și își închipuie el.

Un scriitor rus, Gorceakov, pleacă pe urmele unui compatriot, un muzician exilat în Italia secolului al XVIII-lea, în scopul scrierii biografiei acestuia. Ajutat de o traducătoare, Eugenia, cu care consumase o poveste de dragoste, el parcurge Italia de nord, de la Roma la Arezzo. Dorul de casă, de Rusia natală macină sufletul lui Gorceakov, paralizându-i orice putere de acțiune, dar și inițiativa de întoarcere acasă. Peregrinările lui alternează între o capelă pictată de Piero della Francesca, Roma și zona piscinei termale a Sfintei Catherina, în care pensionarii hotelului din apropiere vin să se scalde. În acest loc Gorceakov îl descoperă pe Domenico, fost profesor de matematică, un mistic aproape nebun, care meditează la sensul existenței.

Film științifico-fantastic inspirat din romanul omonim al lui Stanislaw Lem. Patru savanți aflați la bordul unei stații orbitale unde cercetările au fost abandonate, se confruntă cu stranii și inexplicabile fenomene, determinate de curioasa planetă Solaris, alcătuită dintr-o substanță înzestrată cu proprietățile creierului omenesc.

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Mladen and Marija are an ordinary and happy married couple of the "middle class" of the society in which they live as tenants. Mladen works as a civil engineer in a state company, and Marija is an English teacher in primary school. The couple finds joy in their only son, Nemanja. They discover that Nemanja has a rare heart disease and healing is possible with an operation in a foreign medical center, which costs €26,000.

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.

The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.