The daughter of Margarito Duarte, a modest judicial employee of a small Colombian town, dies suddenly at the age of 7. 12 years later, when the body was exhumed, the girl’s remains remain intact. Margarito Duarte with the help of the people begins a process to get to Rome and ask the Pope for the sanctification of his daughter.
Category: Drama
A pilot loses his memory after an unfortunate plane crash. A good friend comes by after the fact to help him remember his past by talking about a transport plane they built together.
Three Truman Capote stories are presented in this anthology: In “Miriam,” a heartbroken nanny is told she isn’t needed to care for a new child. In “Among the Paths to Eden,” a lonely old woman visits a cemetery and meets a widower placing flowers on his late wife’s grave. In “A Christmas Memory,” a boy and his aunt prepare for Christmas by making fruitcakes for their family in small-town, pre–World War II Alabama.
The story of a man who finds himself in a hospital with a suspicion of a serious illness. He is rethinking his life so far, and his encounters with close and foreign people also create the image of the society of the 1960s, full of hope and disillusionment. The author raises here the basic problems of human existence, questions of freedom, loneliness, non-communicativeness, the search for the heroes’ own identity and their place in society.
The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night. They speak different languages, but they are fatefully bound together by the solitary quest for happiness and deliverance. Sloping paths are all that’s left for them in an age of lost perspectives, lost refuges and lost homelands. They sink deeper with every movement that should be liberating them. Every gesture of love becomes a gesture of humiliation. The desperate dance of their life has become a passionate dance of death.
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.
This inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction follows Jabir, who runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife works to bring emergency medical care to Palestinians. When Jabir is invited by a spirited schoolteacher to make a screening in the old city of Jerusalem, he becomes obsessed with the idea of this pilgrimage and begins to investigate the possibilities.
A man walks with his son through the grass of a hill. They arrive at an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during the Second World War. The deserted and desolate rooms make you travel in memory of the time when the war ended. Before his eyes, episodes of family life flow: father, mother, grandmother and their six children, of whom Silvano, the youngest, was left speechless due to a bomb explosion.