Tomka is a boy who likes playing football with his friends. When the German army captures his town, the German soldiers establish their camp in the town stadium. Tomka with help from his friends and their parents organizes sabotage actions against the soldiers.
Tag: 1970s
Ya Zamene Ahu is a quiet documentary about the visitors of the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite Imam, in the city of Mashhad in the North East of Iran. Nicknamed the “Guardian of Deer,” it is said that Imam Reza once protected a deer chased by a hunter.
Set in a shadowy realm of “Dark Romanticism,” on an island in a mysterious lake. The inhabitants are a beautiful vampire, a hunchbacked prince, a black magician, the Erl Queen and other creatures, as well as their victims. It is the story of the eerie rituals that take place in the eternal twilight.
Mathieu Grégoire is an esteemed author who lives in Spa with his wife and daughter and leads a carefully structured life. One day, while out in the desolate landscape of the High Fens he meets a mysterious woman whom he calls ‘Belle’. An obsessive passion is kindled in Mathieu and in a short space of time he loses all control over his existence.
Darvish Khan, a deaf-mute shepherd living in the desert, has a mystical vision in a dream in which he encounters a saint. When he awakens, he finds himself clutching a large stone. Grateful for the vision, he aims to pay homage and begins to construct an unusual monument in its honor. After his wife tells a neighbor that it is miraculous place, news of his ‘garden of stones’ spreads and people from neighboring villages come to see it. The result wreaks havoc upon Darvish Khan’s life.
The film follows Herdis, an eight-year-old girl, during a rainy day in Bergen. Set against the backdrop of social hardship and class divisions in the early 20th century, the story portrays Herdis’s fragile inner world as she navigates her family’s disintegration and her loneliness and hope for connection. Her parents quarrel, prompting her to wander out into the rain, searching for playmates, but she instead encounters humiliation from older children and remains socially isolated. Based on the short story collection Trylleglasset by Torborg Nedreaas.
Set against the urban backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires, this experimental adaptation transplants Alice in Wonderland into the real world. Alice’s pursuit of the White Rabbit unfolds as a surreal drift through city spaces, where the familiar becomes strange and fantasy quietly overtakes reality.