In Istanbul, the Kurdish immigrants are constantly hassled by the cops. Mehmet is arrested for something he hasn’t done and beaten up in prison. Later, his new friend, Berzan, who scrapes a living selling music tapes from a barrow, is killed in police custody. Mehmet is determined to take Berzan’s body back to his village in the south. That is the coffin bit, which becomes a genuine adventure. A silent cry for freedom and peace, a movie that expresses the wish of people living peacefully together.
Category: Drama
Released from jail on serious health issues after being sentenced 10 years earlier as a university student activist, Yusuf returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region. In the modest house tucked in the beautiful mountains, he reunites with his longing elderly mother. She lovingly takes care of him while he spends idle days resting and occasionally meeting his childhood friend Mikail in the village. One day Yusuf meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian prostitute. With time and circumstances against them, the two misfits desperately try to connect.
Eleven directors from 11 countries each contribute an 11-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001: A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students what’s happened; city kids in Burkina Faso think they’ve spotted Osama bin Laden; a deaf Frenchwoman in Manhattan writes a Dear John letter to a man who left that morning for work at the World Trade Center; a Chilean remembers Allende; events recall other deaths; a mother endures more than her son’s death. The tones vary, as do the locales. Most stories are about others coming to terms with the events of the day, but at least one confronts the viewer with tragedy and death.
A college student goes to prison for vehicular manslaughter and unpaid tickets. He escapes with his girlfriend, becoming fugitives. The narrative explores the sustainability and consequences of their life on the run.
Japanese soldier Tôsuke Kosugi deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over in this melodrama from director Masahiro Shinoda. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money. The woman is told by a geisha that she gave up her virginity cheaply. The resort town begins to feel the influence of the modern world as the sabre-rattling that preceded World War II begins to change their lives forever.
Four Canadian girls skip off university to get to the wedding of one of their number’s relatives across the border in Portland. After the event one stays on with a guy she’s met, one returns home to get ready for her own wedding, and the other two head off for San Diego in a newly acquired Cadillac in search of the usual things.
Married with children, Réal falls in love with Angie, a singer at an adult nightclub. Leaving his family hastily to live with the woman he loves, Réal unwittingly finds himself drawn into the seedy underworld on which she depends. Through a series of circumstances, Réal becomes a stand-up comedian, and slowly sees his partner become entangled in a web of lies that threaten to destroy their relationship.
Returning from war in 1520s Switzerland, mercenary Hansli Gyr finds his homeland divided by the Reformation. As he embraces the teachings of Zwingli, his beloved Ursula is drawn into the radical Anabaptist movement. Their romance is tested by religious conflict, political unrest, and the bloody upheavals that transform their world.