Døden på Oslo S follows two teenage friends, Pelle and Proffen, in late-1980s Oslo as they navigate the city’s gritty underbelly. When Pelle falls for the troubled young Lena, who struggles with drug addiction, they both try to help her escape her destructive life. Their search exposes them to violence, addiction, and the harsh realities of life around Oslo Central Station.
Tag: 1990s
For 30 years, Jane Elliot has committed herself to fighting against racism, prejudice and ignorance through an exercise separating blue-eyed persons from brown-eyed persons. This film witnesses one such experiment with a group of business people who find themselves experiencing discrimination and condemnation due to their eye color. Director Bertram Verhaag captures the emotional power of the experiment and forces the spectators to challenge themselves like the participants.
Antoine has only one friend: his camera. Son of a level-krossing keeper, he collects the passing trains on film. In the past, one of them carried off his mother. One day, the infinite magic of cinema brings her back.
At nightfall, Paris gradually envelopes itself in a coat of lights. The activities of the inhabitants are transformed as the night progresses:… go home, eat, sleep, go out, drink, wander, etc. The authors, camera in hand, present us in this film, an evocative look and bright over Paris and Parisians, from dusk to dawn.
“Mutzmag” is an Appalachian variant of a Scottish tale, “Molly Whuppy,” brought to the United States by early immigrants. It is set in the Appalachian baclcwoods, circa 1920. Mutzmag is a 12-year-old girl who lives with her mother and her two abusive half-sisters, Poll and Nance, in a tumble-down shack on the edge of a cabbage patch. After their mother dies, the girls decide to leave the mountain shack and “seek their fortunes” in the city. On the way they encounter a witch and a simple-minded, but brutal giant who plot to kill and eat the girls.
After their Tehran home is destroyed in an air raid during the Gulf War, Farhad Sadri and his family set out for the safety of northern Iran. As they travel, the family faces a series of unsettling and transformative encounters that expose the emotional scars left by conflict. Blending quiet realism with psychological tension, the film traces their attempt to rebuild a sense of normalcy amid uncertainty.
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife’s infidelity. As he succumbs to green-eyed jealousy, his life starts to crumble. Each step on his downward spiral to madness seems to accelerate, driving him further along the path to a personal hell. Finally, the former shell of his personality cracks completely, with tragic consequences.