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.
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Tom Noonan’s play-turned-film What Happened Was… won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature in 1994. 20 years later, Noonan returned to his roots with The Shape of Somethng Squashed, an independent film developed from his latest theatrical hit. It tells the story of an older ‘has been’ actor who is asked to participate in a read-through of a play at a legendary theater company. The production depends on the success of the read-through, but unbeknownst to the actor he is only standing in for a star playing hard to get.
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.
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).