Après huit ans passés en maison de correction, Spira revient à Reboleira, un bidonville en cours de destruction dans la banlieue de Lisbonne. Tandis qu’il retrouve ses amis et sa famille, Kikas un vieux trafiquant du quartier lui fait comprendre qu’il n’est pas le bienvenu.
An intimate portrait of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, directed by his wife Saskia Boddeke. Together with his daughter, Greenaway formulates an alphabet that represents his personality and thoughts about art and life. A deeply personal portrait not only of the artist, but also of Greenaway the father in his battle against time.
The new talents of Latin American Cinema brings together 5 never-before-seen films that have won awards at festivals around the world.
The Empty Hours (Las Horas Muertas) by Aaron Fernandez (2014, 100 min, Mexico)
On the Vera Cruz coast, 17-year-old Sebastian must single-handedly take over the management of his uncle’s small motel. He rents rooms by the hour to adulterous couples and casual lovers. Among them, Miranda, a beautiful young woman, regularly comes to meet a man who always keeps her waiting. During these empty hours, Sebastian and Miranda slowly get to know each other and a disturbing complicity is established bet...
In 1964, Jean Ziegler was asked by Che Guevara to fight the “capitalist Monster”. Former collaborator of Kofi Annan, professor and writer, Ziegler’s books still act as a manifesto to left-wing intelligentsia. At the UN Human Rights Council, he fights against “vulture funds”, a new avatar of the “Monster”. He goes back to Cuba, in his opinion the mother of all anticapitalist forces. The visit becomes a dialogue between reality and symbolism, confronting his thinking with today’s Cuban destiny.
