Xolomeo y Pitbulieta

Godot in San Quentin

October 1988 •English

A documentary made at the set up of a theater production, of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", directed by Jan Jönson, played by prisoners, at San Quentin State Prison in California.The play is about two men who meet on a lonely country road, waiting for someone called Godot to confirm their lives and make life easier for them to live. Towards the end Godot announces that he will not come tonight, but maybe tomorrow. Producer and director John Reilly and a crew spent four weeks at the maximum-security facility; rehearsal and performance sequences are inter-cut with footage of daily prison life and discussions with the principal characters.

Richard III - version 3.0

December 2017 •Spanish

The Santa Marta Acatitla Prison Theatre Company performs "Richard III version 3.0" an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play from 1633. An amateur dramatics group has been turned into the first professional theatre company inside a Mexican prison. The prison is located south/west of Mexico City lodges about 3 000 prisoners, and has both male and female wards. The culture program started in 2010 and is supported by Foro Shakespeare, founded by Mexican actors Bruno Bichir and Itari Marta. The play "Richard III" has been updated to deal with current events, corruption and lack of future.

Bazán Frías, elogio del crimen

May 2019 •Spanish

A group of inmates decide to take on a workshop to act the life of Andrés Bazán Frías. Bazán Frías was born in poverty at the end of the XIX century and was known for stealing food to give to his neighbors. In 1923 he was murdered by the police. He became known as the "Robin Hood tucumano", and is now hold as a saint amongst the inmates.

Slagfält

April 2014 •Swedish

"Battlefield" - You are not invited! A young man refuses to accept a gift from his father. He arrives without warning, in the middle of the son's semi-psychotic monologue. Somewhere there is a girlfriend. His father is dying to meet and feel that girl. To share his son's experience with a woman.

Bare-Handed

December 2017 •German

Martin Meyer is an Imam called Husamuddin. Imam Meyer fights his own war against ISIS by teaching the Koran. He deals with religious training and his students are the inmates of the Wiesbaden prison, in the heart of Germany. Imam Meyer knows these inmates well, some of them are returning fighters, they went to Syria to join ISIS and then fled back to Germany. They all are Germans citizens, second or third generation's immigrants coming from Islamic countries: misfits, excluded, marginalized and fascinated by the words of the ISIS recruiters. Prisons always have been a fertile ground for the seeds of revenge, social redemption and hatred.

The Nail

August 2017 •Russian

Two stories. Two flats. A wall and... a nail

It's in the Bank

August 2019 •Polish

Three old men get caught by the police during the bank heist. The problem is, that they didn't steal anything.

Nomen est Omen avagy Reszkess Szabó János!

January 2004 •Hungarian

The subway driver Szabó János is tired of conflicts, that so many other people across the town share the same name, so he decides to kill all of them, that he will be the only one left.

Sifu Dan Tongga

January 2009 •English

The film begins with a hunting by Mama Tammy and Izaqs to find those who are still living Watson. Izaq kidnapped Milla by helicopter and took him to the city. Chief of General descendants Watson feels very sad to learn that Mila was kidnapped. As too sympathetic to the distress faced by the chief, Sifu and his best friend, Tongga promise to save Mila.

As Cariocas

October 1966 •Portuguese

Mr. Censor

September 2020 •Persian

An author who couldn't get his book printed due to censorship, gets an opportunity to write a bestseller after a chance meeting.

The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins

December 2021 •Italian

18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for power and an unmeasurable hate for witches. The intervention of the sweet and powerful Dolores, a good witch who has devoted her life to children, saves Paola from being burned at the stake. Through a magical apprenticeship, breakneck pursuits, incredible transformations and a whole lot of trouble, Paola will discover that fate has something really special in store for her… And so the legend begins.

El bulín

June 1969 •Spanish

Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.

Los neuróticos

March 1971 •Spanish

Dr. Sigmund is a psychoanalyst whose only goal in his group therapies is to conquer the women who attend there.

Dicke Liebe

November 2008 •German

Crimen en el hotel alojamiento

March 1974 •Spanish

An assault will create a whole series of situations and problems between the couples who stay in a transient hotel.

¿Los piolas no se casan…?

May 1981 •Spanish

The story revolves around Bebe (Santiago Bal) and Cacho (Tristan), two typical neighborhood boys who live different misfortunes in their constant search to conquer women. Bebe is half a blackmail and thinks he knows how to do them all, while Cacho is more shy and in love. Unexpectedly Bebe finds herself facing a relationship that advances faster than she thought, and that is why she decides to ask for some advice from her rogue neighbor, Don Carmelo (Darío Vittori), a veteran punguista who is in a couple with a beautiful woman much younger. Thus the plot is taking place between entanglements, alleged infidelities and an imminent marriage that no one expected.

Narvalos

January 2021 •French

Ali, a young Moroccan student, arrives to study in France and has to stay with his cousin Mo for a few days before starting university. He will not land in the Paris of his dreams but in the suburb of Clichy-Montfermeil in Seine-Saint-Denis. Disillusionment will give way to beautiful, touching and singular encounters in the heart of a neighborhood with great diversity.