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.
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A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars ‘Tanguito’. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.
A road movie that begins when a man tries to rob a bank and the bank’s clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they’re running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team.
Maren, a young girl, is the sole survivor of the Black Death in her Norwegian village. Using instincts, folklore, luck, and the clairvoyant powers granted her by being born with a “Victory Cap,” Maren survives on her own, waiting for other people to discover her plight. Painstaking recreations of medieval customs and settings dominate the film.
A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she’s unemployed, her husband is gone, and she’s alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.
With a playful associative montage, Parajanov offers an overview of portrait paintings by Hakob Hovnatanyan, the “Raphael of Tiflis.” Combining sights and sounds from both Hovnatanyan’s paintings and 19th century Tbilisi, Parajanov’s short documentary can be seen as a direct precursor to The Color of Pomegranates (1969).
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents’ villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother’s depression, and her mother’s suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. “Is my life real, or is it theater?” This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
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.