For forty years Alejandro Farfán has been making and showing films in El Pedregal. Now located in the heart of Caracas, this community was a small village when Alejandro first went to the cinema. This is a portrait of a local film-maker and of El Pedregal itself, exploring the place and its memories.
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A journalist lives a well-established civil life, married to a woman from a respectable family. However, conflicts with his boss at work become frequent, his marriage is on the wane, and the outward manifestation of everything is a strange skin disease. Doctors recommend that he take a vacation in nature and reexamine himself. In the mountains, in a lonely house by a lake, he meets a woman, also lonely and maladjusted. The consequences of this meeting are beneficial…
In Tangier, a young woman, Aïcha, decides not to follow the path that has been laid out for her and refuses, upon the death of her husband, to marry her brother-in-law. In the mirror of Aïcha’s destiny, becoming in turn a little girl, a woman, a mother, and then a widow, so many Moroccan women are reflected…
Shopworn is a lively Columbia melodrama with Barbara Stanwyck as Kitty, a spirited waitress from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for a wealthy young man. Their romance ignites the wrath of his domineering mother, leading to scandal, sacrifice, and Kitty’s struggle to hold on to both her dignity and her chance at love.
An adaptation of the renowned Portuguese Letters, originally written in French and attributed to Soror Mariana Alcoforado. As letters may have been written by Soror, in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Beja, to her lover Noel Bouton, Count of Chamilly.
1943. A bourgeois family spends part of their Easter vacation in an old family home near a fishing village, close to the beach. On the first floor of the house lives temporarily a Belgian woman with two young children, a refugee from the war raging in Europe. Life is mundane until, from the mist one morning, two men emerge from the beach, one of them wounded. They are one of the pilots and the helmsman of a British fighter plane that crashed into the sea…
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a their own child more than anything else in the world, but after years of trying, they have nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in their spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?
A lyrical and yet at the same time passionate ‘situation report’ on the living conditions of Hungarian Gypsies. With this, his first significant work, Sándor Sára, who went on to become one of the most influential figures in Hungarian film as both cinematographer and director, aimed not only to document but also to take a standpoint on this critical topic. The exposition of the film determines the context: newspaper articles and socio-photos reporting on the plight of the Roma, listing numbers and statistics, and in the follow-on Sára depicts the problem through motion pictures.