Twenty-year-old Laszlo Sz., a driver’s mate, steals the money he was supposed to post and spends the day wandering around Budapest, visiting bars, restaurants, pinball parlors, and various other places in search of something different and meaningful.
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The story of a young boy (Izzy) and his family, living in New York. His father (Paul) has recently had a stroke, completely debilitating him mentally and physically. Izzy tries to escape the reality of it all by breaking into nearby homes. His mother (Sue) struggles to keep the family together, battling Izzy’s outbursts and the strains of the entire situation.
A film set to classical music, created using the pixilation technique – a live-action stop-motion camera animation. The city panorama is shown to the rhythm of music imitating the rhythm of a bumblebee’s flight. The camera acts as the eyes – the world is shown from the insect’s perspective.
A farm woman is accused of murdering her husband on a desolate farm in early 1900s Midwest America. Two women, a neighboring farmer’s wife and the sheriff’s wife, find themselves alone in the jailed woman’s kitchen while the prosecuting attorney and their husbands search the farm for evidence that would prove a motive for murder. As the women gather some things together for the accused, they uncover details of her life and discover what may be just what the men are looking for. Adapted from Susan Glaspell’s 1917 short story of the same name, the film illuminates a women’s world largely unnoticed by the men.
In a nightmarish, film noir-inspired cityscape, a man is pursued by a mysterious feline-like woman through a world of shadows, violence, and looming skyscrapers. As the chase reaches its climax, he discovers that the true danger may be his own inescapable fate.
Born to Film is, among other things, intimately autobiographical, interspersing footage of Danny Lyon’s own young son with film shot in the 1930’s by Lyon’s father, a doctor who immigrated from Germany… Lyon’s passionate vision has deepened and grown in resonance and the film is not just family or even social history, but about human continuity, the power of instinct to survive, the grace that love and play bring to it, the wonder of being alive.
On March 8, 1979, in solidarity with Iranian women demonstrating against the emerging theocratic dictatorship, a team of women from the French Women’s Liberation Movement (MLF) traveled to Tehran to support them and, by making a film, ensure that a record of their struggle would be disseminated and preserved. This film was conceived, experienced, shot, and edited with Iranian women in the struggle.
As soon as Mirta Saknīte, an elderly country woman, wins a car in a lottery, relatives, who had never taken any interest in the elderly woman before, flock to her homestead. Until then the large Giluči family were Mirta’s only helpers. Her nephew Ēriks with his wife and son and her ex-daughter-in-law Olita with her second husband and daughter would love to get their hands on the car. Everyone tries to lure Auntie Mirta on their side but shortly before her death she reconnects with her former sweetheart Alfrēds Pigals. Based on a story by Māras Svīre.