A charcoal maker and his wife in Transylvania have become an attraction for tourists keen to take pictures of real poverty, while they themselves are dreaming of the Caribbean ... a caustic satire.
A box full of documents and souvenirs found in the dustbin – material for the reconstruction of the life of an eccentric couple of artists, somewhere between fiction and reality.
Otto, born in 1907, was not like the other villagers. The portrait of a “character” and “village idiot” who may have been a genius emerges like a puzzle. A modern “heimatfilm”.
Young Russians are digging up the remains of World War II soldiers’ bodies. Rare archival footage. The eerie encounter of a lost future with the present day.
A French boy who grows up in a yurt in the forest, at one with nature and without electricity, wants to go to a “real” school... a modern Tom Sawyer in magic images.
Parents who don’t act like parents and a little girl who keeps escaping from them: by running away and dreaming up a fantasy world. A fairytale without a happy ending.
Dust or mud, potholes, stray dogs, grumpy shop owners and coachmen, curses and jokes. A street in Kabul becomes a loveable symbol of the whole country.
Two illegal immigrants from Afghanistan in Paris, a camp fire, a stray moon in the sky. Memories of a flight that never ended. Faces, stories, laughter.
The industrial outskirts of a grey Istanbul. The world of Turkish and Kurdish low-wage workers in grainy black and white in an unusual film.
A construction site somewhere in Asia is populated by nomad workers and their ghost stories. The aura of the supernatural captured between railway tracks and scaffolding.
They left home and never came back: fathers, sons, husbands. They left behind families who are looking for answers they fear. The unbearable in shimmering images.
