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Anna

July 2013 •Greek

Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr. Michalis, an eigthy-five-year-old man with arteriosclerosis. Mr. Michalis spends his days in front of the television, watching time and again a soap opera with a heroine named Anna. He soon becomes obsessed with this heroine, to the point of calling Mairy 'Anna', despite the remarks of his daughter Melpo. When Mairy finds some old photographs she makes an important discovery...

Carne

November 1991 •French

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Rendezvous

January 1976 •French

A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.

Diarchy

August 2010 •Italian

Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competition emerges between them, with terrible consequences.

The Mills in Joy and Sorrow

May 1912 •Dutch

A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.

O Fauno das Montanhas

May 1926 •Portuguese

This film is the pearl of his pioneer work in Madeira Island and captures the most of his methodology: good stories taking the most of Madeira's natural scenery, and provoking the audience with some ironic and "double-sense" scenes. The film tells the story of an English girl travelling with her father, a botanic, and a guide from madeira in the deep mountains of the island. The girl has some mental disturbs and is always scaring about an attack from the native man, appearing as a half-man/half-monster.

Crimes of Diogo Alves

April 1911 •Portuguese

Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.

The Mistletoe Bough

November 1904 •English

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

Wedding Festivities

September 1913 •Chinese

The film tells the story of a man and woman who don't know each other. After being matched by a matchmaker, after going through a series of red tape, they were sent to the bridal chamber and began a difficult life as a couple. Despite the primitive shooting methods and lack of training of the actors, the film has a very important place in the history of Chinese film. The film has now been lost.

Belly

January 1996 •English

Aventure Malgache

January 1944 •English

Backstage before a performance, a French actor recalls his time in Madagascar during World War II, when he secretly ran a Resistance radio station under the watch of a collaborationist police chief. His story unfolds in flashback, revealing espionage, deception, and divided loyalties within the French ranks. Made for Britain’s Ministry of Information, this 1944 French-language propaganda short satirizes Vichy opportunism and wartime hypocrisy, and was shelved for decades before its release in 1993.

Two Men and a Wardrobe

April 1958 •Polish

The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town.

Bluebeard

July 1901 •French

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

Unearthed

January 2010 •English

In the near future.... The world is in turmoil. The atmosphere is thick and heavy with pollution and all natural resources are nearing exhaustion. Nations grow desperate and many are willing to fight each other for what little remains. The situation is rapidly spiraling out of control. In an urgent bid to solve the problem, missions are launched to explore the universe for planets that may contain alternative sources of energy. On the edge of space,one of the mining ships, The Ezekiel, finds an uncharted planet that reveals signs of a possible fuel resource. Two crew members are chosen to undertake a prospecting mission to the desolate rock, in order to take samples and survey the surface for later analysis. The mission goes well, until they reach 'grid reference 3894' where they unexpectedly descend into a world they could only imagine in their nightmares and unearth a dark and terrifying truth.

Flicka

January 2002 •Dutch

The lonesome construction worker Carl gets into a relation with Flicka, a girl inside a computer program.

Sale

January 2003 •Dutch

A woman is shopping in a crowded shopping mall, with her husband and two kids. In the shopping mall she meets a stranger, who brings romance to a dreadful Saturday.

The Truth About Stanley

April 2012 •English

No home, no belongings, plenty of baggage. A short film about a man, his stories and the boy who listened.

Neighbors

December 1920 •English

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

A Chance

January 1970 •Polish

Zbyszek volunteers as an organ donor for his friend.

Two Cars, One Night

June 2004 •English

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.