Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a burgeoning love-affair coincides with her receiving a series of oddly threatening letters, Miriam's sheltered existence is cracked open.
The grandfather planted a turnip, which grew so big that he could not pull it out. The grandmother's help did not change anything, so they called their granddaughter. Then the dog Zhuchka and the cat came to help, but the turnip still remained in the ground. And only the appearance of a mouse helped the heroes to pull out the root vegetable.
As part of a residency organized by the University, Miranda Ackerman, a well-known poet, returns to Caen, where she had briefly lived a decade earlier. She is astonished to discover that the University is hosting her in the very house where she lived with Richard, her partner at the time. Richard now teaches on the opposite side of the university. As they reconnect, she begins to feel disturbed by presences in the house.
A chef's life is upended when a jet-setting, champagne-sipping, hotel-hopping woman claims to be his long-lost mother. This documentary reveals the untold story.
After the tragic death of his father, 18-year-old Totone must look after his younger sister and their failing family farm. He assumes even more responsibility when he enters a cash competition for the best Comté cheese made in the western part of the French Alps.
Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife, he has never been able to get custody of his daughter. Having given up hope of ever seeing her again, he is about to move back to France when Lily hops in his cab. But she doesn't recognize him.
Romantic war film in which the daughter of a German baron falls in love with the crippled Hans who has been declared unfit for the army, to the jealousy of his brother.
Dorian Supin’s third documentary film of Arvo Pärt steps closer to the composer, showing him in a domestic setting as a composer, husband, father, and grandfather. The title “Even if I lose everything” refers to an entry in Arvo Pärt’s musical notebooks, which the composer browses in the film, together with Immo Mihkelson. The musings and recollections inspired by the notes in these journals, in parallel with domestic scenes, shed light on the composer’s life and creative philosophy, painting a personal, in-depth picture of Arvo Pärt. The film’s soundtrack includes excerpts from Pärt’s works.
On the island all crocodiles hatch crocodiles and only one of them for unknown reasons has a chick, which immediately calls him ‘daddy’. At first he tries to get rid of the offspring, but then parental feelings triumph and the crocodile starts to protect the child from aggressive neighbours. Later it turns out that, despite their differences, they have a lot to learn from each other.
This experimental film, hand-scraped and painted on the film strip, is a unique and expressive vision of a sick society, expressed by the unnatural existence in a labyrinth. The subconsciousness reflects the attack of bureaucrats on the world of the creative and natural Woodpeckerman, on his surroundings and his universe — a bird cage. In the end, the image of human existence is presented in the form of a reversed pyramid.