Reinhart Von Musel, el capità més jove de l’Imperi Galàctic, es dirigeix a la Fortalesa d’Izerloan. És un estratega amb talent a la vegada que un líder poderós, al qual tots els seus homes rendeixen una fidelitat absoluta, però Von Musel inspira enveges entre les forces militars de l’Imperi i mentre està complint amb el seu deure, atempten contra la seva vida. En el bàndol rival, L’Aliança de Planetes Lliures, també existeix un altre jove capità: Yan Wanglee, conegut com a “Yan el Miraculós”. Aquest home, que ha obtingut molts èxits per dret propi, ha d’enfrontar-se a un grup de traïdors compost per oficials veterans de l’exèrcit. Aquests dos joves guerrers i els seus exèrcits, es troben i lluiten a Regnitta. Mentre cadascun d’ells lluita contra les seves pròpies forces rebels, la rivalitat entre ambdós produeix una sèrie de batalles excepcionals.
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.
A life in one-hundred-sixty-four moments.
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Rosalia Zelma employs a traditional drawing to offer a story in which a scarecrow is attracted by a white hare. Sadly, the long-eared beauty’s affections hop elsewhere, in search of a suitor with deeper patchwork pockets filled with carrots.
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.
An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.
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.
Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to fill the bill, a specimen who has all these characteristics. The lucky guy will spend a few hours in the company of a well-known movie star
Federació de Rússia, 31 de desembre de 1999. Després de la inesperada dimissió del president Boris Ieltsin, el primer ministre Vladimir Putin es converteix en president interí del país. Des d'aquell dia i durant un any, la càmera de Vitaly Mansky va documentar l'ascens al poder de Putin. La història d'un testimoni privilegiat. La dura explicació de perquè la política és l'art de la possibilitat d'aconseguir el millor amb el suport de molts, però també de donar el pitjor a canvi.
Rodada a Itàlia, l'acció d'aquesta pel·lícula té lloc a Espanya durant el rodatge d'un film que té molts problemes de finançament. Les dificultats provoquen no poques tensions i nervis entre l'equip de filmació.
Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.
El film es desenvolupa en el context d'un futur proper, catastròfic, on homes i dones mantenen una guerra despietada. Violents o confusos, els esdeveniments es desenvolupen al marge de la nostra moral" (Louis Malle).
A l'hivern de 1937, la jove Manuela i la seva filla Paloma recorren els carrers de la ciutat assetjada. El seu marit, l'advocat Just Álvarez Calderón, lluita contra Franco en dos fronts: a la ràdio, on s'ha convertit en “la veu de la revolució”, i a les trinxeres que envolten Madrid.
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.