Valley of the Rulers
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mountain in Uzice, Serbia – the closest place to heaven. This is the last station on earth for old people that called “clients”. While they’re waiting for the end of their lives, prisoned in a desolate nursing home and their old-dying body, they are fighting for the freedom of their soul, the only place they can feel young and alive. A fight between light and darkness, suffering and acceptance, life and death.
A - Night
A man cannot escape his memories of the previous night and the woman who filled it.
She
A man complains about the tedium of routine. It seems that he has no power of decision or action.
New Day
This film contrasts the solitude of a man trapped in a dark routine with his radiant quest to reunite with someone dear to him.
Stakhanov
Alexey spends his life in a single room building paper airplanes, eating only at the sound of a bell and never breaking the rules of his work. Deep down, he plans to escape to see the outside world, until the arrival of a new colleague puts his plan in danger.
Knock Down
Impressions about fighting the passing of time, living in a constant hurry and the uphill battle of finding the natural tempo to life itself.
Bathtub by the Sea
Gunnar is living a routine life by himself at a lighthouse. One day a mermaid comes in with the tides, and his lonely routine filled lifestyle is getting challenged.
Mori, The Artist's Habitat
Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.
Teaserama
A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.
A Armadilha
Alekhin
Fly-on-the-wall documentary on the day-to-day life of Evgeniy Alyokhin, russian poet and musician, and his girlfrend Oksana.
Daucus Carota
A community of women lives in an old convent that falls apart. They never talk and strive to keep everything clean. One day, Irene realizes for the first time that there is much more beyond the routine she and her sisters keep doing over and over. Irene, following nature’s signs, starts a journey of reconnection with her own impulses and body to finally find her own voice.
Cosmic Routine
Tired of everyday monotony, a simple girl finds herself in an alternative universe. In the urban scenery of a music video from the 80s, she will try to breathe life into a world mired in routine.
Sonate
Love's Routine
LOVE’S ROUTINE is a dark comedy about a discordant elderly couple, who ultimately prove that love is greater than flesh and blood.
Life Asks
A reflective and metaphysical journey about life, which keeps reminding us of our place within the vast weight of existence.
Runaway Horse
Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss this dimly familiar acquaintance. But Klaus is overjoyed to recognize his old schoolmate Helmut, eager to recall every incident of their shared time, and to display every detail of this successful lifestyle as a fit sportsman and author. The precious days of privacy give way to an unwanted and awkward intimacy, as the Buchs and the Halms hike, dine and sail together. Their joint activities aggravate myriad psychological tensions among the four characters, which are all the more intensely ironic for their peaceful veneer and which must eventually erupt.
Eggs
Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his adult son dating from his Swedish visit, Konrad, comes to live with them after his mother has fallen ill. Soon Moe is about to discover that three is indeed a crowd...
Maniac Summer
Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with no specific subject or topic. The camera is positioned in front of a window and left running. It observes movements, registers noises coming from the street or nearby park, captures Chantal Akerman going about her business in her apartment: smoking, working, talking on the telephone. Fragments from the artist’s everyday life are featured in the installation’s central video, while the adjoining panels are more symbolically charged; in them, various images from the former have been isolated, modified and repeated. These abstract afterimages act as a kind of memory, looking back to the images in the installation’s centrepiece as so many shadows of its reality.
Roach
Gregorio has a uniform life. He works in a factory and lives alone. One day a cockroach appears in his pantry and he sees the possibility of changing his life.