Film Archive

Ever since her husband and son were dragged out of the car and kidnapped by strangers four years ago, Lulu has drifted through her life in Mexico like a ghost.

After five years in exile in Europe the director returns to Iran to make a film. She asks her friends to act in it. What starts as a game during the shoot gradually turns into a brutal clash between those who stayed and the one who left.

An extremely tender portrait of Aster, a blind young mother who lives with her little daughter in a shared home for single mothers in Ethiopia. Her low singing about love and little mice pervades the film like a seeing person’s dream.

The King wakes up after a long and deep sleep, but doesn´t know what to do with all the time he has. Hoping to find an answer he assembles an automaton, but in vain, because the wheel of time follows its own rules.

This film evokes memories of literature classes – but it’s unlikely that there was ever such a dynamic recital of Goethe’s ballad. And completely without words, too!

The gustatory experience of eating a fish eye in a crowded restaurant opens new worlds to one of the guests. A surrealist thrill like a ghost train ride for the palate: the eye is red, the smell of the dishes is red.

Day after day the sun shimmers over the harbour and the cafés – the eternal Croatian summer as a drawn diary.

High up there, almost in the clouds, a man and his chicken live in an attic flat. The frontal perspective on their refuge and its wide skies is immoveable and static.

The world of the tragic hero and his lover is put out of joint by the sting of an initially tiny mosquito. After futile and lonely resistance, his better half leaves him. What is left that’s worth fighting for now?

The film takes a look at the absurd side of sex tourism, creating an illusory world of intense colours and exaggerated stereotypes in which human desire is reduced to possession. A fast-paced adventure.

Apathy has infected a world confronted with the apocalypse. Amid this planetary desolation a group of three players still want to play mah-jong. Their problem: they can´t because they are one player short.

In this brilliantly filmed and edited miniature the residents of a Lisbon suburb never stop talking about money and the rare opportunities to get hold of it.

A slow pan scans children’s faces with half-closed eyes directed at nothing. The long-term coma patients, children and adolescents, in a hospital in Warsaw are resting in a kind of limbo.