Stockholm Film Festival
Stockholms 23a internationella filmfestival
7–18 november 2012
Festivalprogrammet 1991
- American Independents
- Specialvisning
- Short Film Competition
- Midnight Releases
- Retro
- Europa idag
- Svensk film
- Pure Cinema
American Independents
American Dream
av Barbara Kopple
AN OSCAR-WINNING DOCUMENTARY about the life in Austin, Minnesota. The town's biggest employer drastically cuts the wages for its employees. The union calls for strike, but many hesitate. Like most…
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Blood and Concrete: A Love Story
av Jeffrey Reiner
JOEY TURKS IS A YOUNG CARTHIEF who wants to change his life and go to Los Angeles. In order to get the 400 dollars he needs, he steals a television set. Unfortunately the owner is Mort, a hard-boiled…
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Charlie's Ear
av Gary Chason
HAROLD BOLDGETT IS AN ORDINARY GUY struggling to get out of bed to face another work day. It happens to be his birthday. And it's going to be one of those days: he feels rotten, he hates his life, he…
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City of Hope
av John Sayles
THE ACTION TAKES PLACE IN the imaginary Hudson City, New Jersey. It's the US, 1990, and decay is spreading: the old power structure is breaking down and another direction is being established. Joe is…
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Colors
av Dennis Hopper
A MUCH DEBATED POLICE FILM ABOUT the late 80s gangfights in L.A. Danny McGavin is a young, hotheaded police officer who works in team with the older, experienced Bob Hodges. They belong to a group of…
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The Heck with Hollywood
av Doug Block
A BITTERSWEET DOCUMENTARY ABOUT the difficult art of film making. We meet three independent film makers struggling to finish their projects in the backyard of the dream factory.
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Mississippi Masala
av Mira Nair
UGANDA, 1972. IDI AMIN HAS DECIDED to solve the problem of racism by deporting all Asians. Jay, a successful Indian lawyer is forced to escape with his wife Kinnu and daughter Mina. Eighteen years…
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Motorama
av Barry Shils
MOTORAMA IS THE NAME OF AN unbelievable contest where the person who manages to collect enough cards from the gas stations owned by Chimera Oil Company wins 500 million dollars. Ten-year-old Gus…
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
av Donna Deitch, Penelope Spheeris, Joan Micklin Silv
THERE ARE MORE THAN 40 000 WOMEN serving sentences in American jails. In this 90 minutes long trilogy about women's experiences behind the bars, the impact of life in jail for mothers and their
Rubin & Ed
av Trent Harris
THE YOUNG, INTROVERTED, OUTSIDER Rubin has a weakness for Mahler, platform-shoes and soft rubber animals. His companion Ed is a passive, touchy, salesman in his late middle-age, with strange clothes…
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Shannon's Deal
av Lewis Teague
THIS IS THE PILOT FOR AN AMERICAN TV-series which received much attention in the US. It's a realistically oriented law-series taking place in and around the hallways of the judicial system. At the…
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Straight Out of Brooklyn
av Matty Rich
A REALISTIC DRAMA ABOUT DESTITUTION and violence in today's Black America, shot on location in Brooklyn, New York. Ray Brown is a black man who's had an underpaid job for many years. He accuses the…
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Trust
av Hal Hartley
THIS IS A LOVE-MELODRAMA WITH DARK humor about life in an American suburb. The precocious Maria has dropped out of high-school and becomes pregnant with her unsympathetic boyfriend, who abandons her.…
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Specialvisning
Grim Prairie Tales
av Wayne Coe
THE PRIZE HUNTER MORRISON RIDES through the desert with a dead man thrown across his horse's back. He runs into Farley, They settle at a camp fire and in order to pass the time they compete with one…
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Hearts of Darkness
av Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE MAKING of Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now. Coppola's wife Eleanor describes in unique footage Coppola's three year long manic struggle to finish the heavily…
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Kings of Ads
av Fellini, Godard, Polanski amongs others
A film made of commercials by famous directors like Annaud, Beineix, Chabrol, Fellini, Godard, Lelouch, Leone, Polanski, Saura, Scorsese, Spielberg, Zeffirelli and many other giants.
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Not Mozart
av Peter Greenaway, Jeremy Newson, Pat Gavin
Six directors meet six composers in six musical dramas which, by being a lot, but not Mozart, add an
unusual and irreverent contribution to the celebration of the Mozart bicentennial. The…
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På drift mot Idaho
av Gus Van Sant
Prostituerad narkoleptiker letar efter sin mor i en road movie inspirerad av Henry IV.
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Scorpion's Garden
av Oleg Kovalov
A Russian film in the spirit of Eisenstein's montagetechnique. A director is sitting at the editing board, editing old news-reels, He is making a Stalinist propaganda film about the Soviet Communist…
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Short Film Competition
Perechod tovarisja Tjkalova tjerez Severnyj Poljus
av Maksim Pezjemskij
COMRADE TCHKALOV AND HIS men are ordered to go to the North Pole. After many heroic and good deeds they finish their mission and leave for America where they win the hearts of the proletariat. And…
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Six Point Nine
av Dan Bootzin
A HUMOUROUS SHORT FILM GIVING a close-up view in collage format of the routines in a couple of apartments in an ordinary building a morning when things don't happen exactly as they should. A man…
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Tiny Toon Adventures
av Mike Renya
WITH ''TINY TOONs'', 1990, Steven Spielberg revived the fine American tradition of animated film. Walt Disney Studios was the most famous studio for animated film during Hollywood's Golden Age, Carl…
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Underjordens hemlighet
av Claes Lindberg
Two young boys share a room during their hospitalization, They go on an excursion together and find a complete military hospital in the basement, which they plan to send to the destitute in Africa.…
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Midnight Releases
A Rage in Harlem
av Bill Duke
A TURBULENT LOVE COMEDY TAKING place in Harlem in 1956. Jackson, a young, unexperienced, upper-class youth, meets the beautiful Imabelle, a hardened gangster lady who uses him, then leaves. Blinded…
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Delusion
av Carl Colpaert
GEORGE IS A YOUNG CALIFORNIAN computer genius who's found out that he will be laid off. As retribution he steals 450.000 dollars which he hides in the spare tire in his car. He begins a journey…
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Den vite vikingen
av Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
A GRANDIOSE EPIC ABOUT LOVE, HONOR and betrayal set in the Norse medieval viking culture. Askur is a young man of good birth who marries Embla in Norway during the 10th century. She is the daughter…
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Guilty by Suspicion
av Irwin Winkler
HOLLYWOOD EXAMINES ITS PAST IN a story about the black-listing of actors and directors during the 50's Communist witch-hunt. Robert de Niro plays the successful director David Merrill who has a…
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The Man in the Moon
av Robert Mulligan
A BITTER-SWEET STORY ABOUT FIRST love, placed in Louisiana during the 50's. Danielle is a 14-year-old girl who is discovering her sexuality and is longing for the big passion. She idealizes her 17…
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Proof
av Jocelyn Moorhouse
MARTIN IS BLIND FROM BIRTH AND doesn't trust anyone. Already as a young child he had the uncomfortable feeling that his mother was lying to him in order to punish him. As a grown man he compensates…
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Retro
Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
av Anders Grönros
15-year-old Nora grew up as a foster child since she at me age of five lost her real parents in a car crash. When Nora and her foster parents move into an old apartment, Nora finds some objects left…
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The American Friend
av Wim Wenders
AN EXISTENTIAL thriller based on Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley's Game. Jonathan Zimmermann is a calm, peaceful craftsman who builds picture frames. Tom Ripley is a mysterious American, home base…
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Backtrack
av Dennis Hopper
THE CONCEPTUAL ARTIST ANNE BENTON witnesses a mafia murder and has to be done away with. The professional killer Milo manages to find her despite her numerous changes of identity. After a while the…
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Blue Velvet
av David Lynch
ONE OF THE MOST DISCUSSED FILMS of the late 80s. The young Jeffrey Beaumont makes a macabre find on a wooded hillside. A cut off ear, infested with ants is the preface to an unusual study of…
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Easy Rider
av Dennis Hopper
THE YEAR IS 1969. TO THE SOUND of Jimi Hendrix and Steppenwolf two drugdealing hippies - acted by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda - drive through the American South on their motorbikes. The unruly…
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The Hot Spot
av Dennis Hopper
A STORY ABOUT DESIRE, JEALOUSY and sudden death among a group of people in a small off-the-road town in Texas. An unscrupulous tramp arrives to the small town, gets a job as a car-dealer and finds…
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The Last Movie
av Dennis Hopper
DENNIS HOPPER HIMSELF HAS CALLED this sequel to Easy Rider, ''a film about films''. The action takes place in Peru in an area where originally a village founded by the Inca Indians was situated. An…
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Night Tide
av Curtis Harrington
A LOW BUDGET THRILLER modeled on Cat People. The young lonesome sailor Johnny Drake is bewitched by the beautiful Mora who works as a mermaid at an amusement park in Venice, California. _
Out of the Blue
av Dennis Hopper
A PITCH DARK PORTRAIT OF THE 15-year-old punk-rock girl Cindy's meaningless life. Her father is in jail after having driven his truck, while drunk, into a school bus full of children, of whom many…
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Paris Trout
av Stephen Gyllenhaal
PARIS TROUT IS AN EVIL BUSINESS man in the 40s American South. He is a rasist usurer who lends money to the poor Black population. When the young Henry Ray Sayers refuses to make the installments on…
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River's Edge
av Tim Hunter
A GANG OF AMERICAN YOUTHS GROW up in a workingclass area. The lack of emotional contact with their parents and other adults make them create their own family with its own unwritten laws. When a…
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Europa idag
A Divina comédia
av Manoel de Oliveira
THIS DISTINCTIVE ''REFLECTION ON HISTORY'' refers only indirectly to Dante's Divine Comedy, according to the director himself. Generously speaking, they touch on the same themes: good and evil, sin…
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Allemagne neuf zéro
av Jean-Luc Godard
THE FIRST CONTRIBUTION IN A SERIES of films about solitude, made by different European directors. Godard has chosen to portray the united Germany. Lemmy Caution from Alphaville hibernating as a…
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Begärets lag
av Pedro Almodóvar
A MELODRAMA ABOUT THE HOMOSEXUAL writer Pablo and his brother Tina, who at first was named Tino, but changed name after having had sex with his father and transformed himself to the father's new…
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Csapd le csacsi
av Péter Timar
AN ABSURD LOVE COMEDY WITH HUNGARY, 1989, as the set, where the deconstruction of the one party system just has begun. A young couple, building their dream house in a suburb to Budapest, is suddenly…
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Face Value
av Johan van der Keuken
JOHAN VAN DERKEUKENS CONTINUOUS work is an effort to select and record what counts as creative development in a culture's history. His latest film is a philosophical documentary where the camera…
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The Footman
av Daniele Luchetti
LUCIANO IS A YOUNG LITERATURE TEACHER working extra as a ghostwriter for a famous author. One day he gets an offer to become a speech writer to the minister Botero in Rome. Luciano works hard and…
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Gluchy telefon
av Piotr Mikucki
A POLISH STORY OF OUR TIMES, DESCRIBING the situation for the intellectual supporters of Solidarinosc. For many years they have been political prisoners, fighting for their ideals. In the newly won,…
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Homicide
av David Mamet
A WAVE OF VIOLENT RACE CRIMES IS shaking Chicago. An old Jewish woman has been murdered. The murder investigator Bobby Gold is tracking a drug dealer when he suddenly is taken off the case to…
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I Love Vienna
av Houchang Allahyari
ALI MOHAMED IS A GERMAN TEACHER who escapes with his son and sister to Vienna from Iran in order to avoid the horrors of a coming war. In the refugee camp, housed in a run-down hotel, he is for the…
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Le Pas suspendu de la cicogne
av Theo Angelopoulos
A YOUNG REPORTER ARRIVES AT THE greek border where he finds a city, a face and an image. The city is the End of the world, ''the waiting room'' popularly called, a place everyone longs to get out of.…
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Lebewohl, Fremde
av Tevfik Baser
Two PERSONS MEET ON A DESOLATE island in the North Sea. Karin, a 40-year-old woman and Deniz, a 50-year old writer, who is seeking political asylum. The fact that they don't speak the same language…
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London Kills Me
av Hanif Kureishi
THE AREA AROUND PORTOBELLO MARKET is maybe the most attractive and alive part of London - the cosmopolitan craziness reminds you of New York, Paris or Berlin. At the same time the destructive forces…
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Mannen som förlorade sin skugga
av Alain Tanner
WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEAS LEFT, that's when you're like someone who's lost his shadow, Antonio says to Paul. Antonio thinks that Paul has ended up in that situation. Antonio is an old Andalusian…
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Svensk film
Det förälskade molnet
av Muammer Özer
A shattering story about the social consequences of political oppression in the early 1980's Turkey. A woman who has been partaking in a strike at her work place is taken prisoner, tortured and raped…
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Ett paradis utan biljard
av Carlo Barsotti
A gang of happy Italian men full of expectations arrive in Sweden as guest workers during the 50's to find their luck. However, their meeting with the cold country is not without complications, The…
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Harry Lund lägger näsan i blöt
av Mats Arehn
A crazy thriller comedy with high tempo and many complications, Johan Ulveson plays a man from Gothenburg who innocently is accused of murder. When he goes to Stockholm to try to clear everyming up…
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Luigis paradis
av Pelle Seth
A road movie about the 17 -year-old Eva who looks up her Italian born father after many years. He owns a pizzeria in a Swedish small town. The father is about to return to Italy and Eva follows…
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Önskas
av Lasse Johansson
A curious film comedy in a quiet bagatelle format which instead of crying laughter gives its audience a continuous bubbly giggle. A man invites his new girlfriend to a summer vacation at a luxury…
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Riktiga män bär alltid slips
av Jonas Cornell
Felix runs a night club on the edge of ruin. He has problems with impotence and believes his wife (who is also the stripper at me club) is planning to find a lover. In order to short cut his wife he…
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Pure Cinema
Amazon
av Mika Kaurismäki
IN AN ACT OF MERCY KARI HAS TAKEN HIS wife's life and is now on the run with his daughters from Finland to Brazil. After much misfortune they're driving on the highway through the Amazonas, hoping to…
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Barton Fink
av Joel Coen
BARTON FINK IS A YOUNG, SERIOUS writer in Hollywood during the 40s and is going to write a screenplay for a fourth-rate film about wrestling. Completely uninspired he is sweating in front of…
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Boyz n the Hood
av John Singleton
A tragedy-comedy about young people in a black neighbourhood in America - the community in which the film's director was raised. The three heroes are called Tre Styles, Doughboy and Ricky. Their home…
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The Cabinet of Dr Ramirez
av Peter Sellars
A HORRIFYING STORY, SHOT IN THE NARROW streeets of the financial district on Lower Manthattan. The everyday-problems in Matt's and Cathy's life on Wall Street are darkened by some gruesome…
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Closet Land
av Radha Bharadwaj
A FEMALE WRITER OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IS arrested without understanding why and taken away to a big, bare interrogation hall. With her eyes bandaged she is questioned by a sometimes…
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Delicatessen
av Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
IN A SUBURBAN ABANDONED LOT there is an old house inhabited by people with the most remarkable customs. First and foremost it's the family Tapioca; then Mr and Mrs Interligator, a couple of hopeless…
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Drive
av Jefery Levy
TWO MEN, A DRIVER AND A PASSENGER, are car-pooling to work every day for ninety minutes through the barren suburbs of Los Angeles. The driver is a brilliant theorist and cultural analyst who's been…
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Europa
av Lars von Trier
AFTER WORLD WAR II LEO Kessler ends up in Germany and gets work as a train-conductor. He meets Katharina, the daughter of the rail-road company's president. Nazi partisans has captured her and are…
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The Garden
av Derek Jarman
THE FILM TAKES PLACE IN AND AROUND the director's home by the English weather-beaten Southeastern coast and brings the viewer on a magic tour. Simple, spectacular scenery with flowers, stones,…
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Kikuchi
av Kenchi Iwamoto
THE INTROVERTED KIKUCHI HAS A monotonous job at a laundromat. Silently and mechanically he loads washing machine after washing machine, and appears to be incapable of communicating with the…
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Krug vtoroj
av Alexander Sokurov
THE ONLY REAL EVENT IN THIS FILM is a young man's journey to a small village in coldest Sibiria to make arrangements for his father's funeral. Next to his dead father's body the young man is…
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Latino Bar
av Paul Leduc
LATINO BAR TAKES PLACE IN THE CARIBBEAN. A destitute man from the docklands is compelled into the night to look for food. The hunt results in a theft. The police chase him and he is caught together…
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Leningrad November
av Andreas Schmidt, Oleg Morozov
AFTER A TEN YEAR LONG STAY IN West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a…
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Monsieur
av Jean-Philippe Toussaint
MONSIEUR OFTEN WALKS AROUND, his arms spread out like the wings of an airplane. So much so that every now and again he runs into doorways. Boom. People - and Monsieur is surrounded by people: his…
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Nuit et jour
av Chantal Akerman
JACK AND JULIE WERE VERY YOUNG. They probably came from the country. They had a small one-bedroom apartment with a tiny kitchen and a shower on the fifth floor of a Parisian building, not far from…
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Raise the Red Lantern
av Zhang Yimou
A 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL, SONGLIAN, is forced to interrupt her university studies after her father's death and decides to marry a wealthy feudal lord who already has three other wives. She discovers…
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Ryd
av Lárus Ymir Oskarsson
AFTER A LONG STAY ABROAD IN ORDER to avoid a prison sentence, Petur returns to the scene of the crime he maintains he never committed. His return stirs up uncomfortable memories, not the least for…
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Singapore Sling
av Nikos Nikolaidis
A STORMY NIGHT AN EXHAUSTED AND injured traveller arrives at a mysterious house where a woman and her daughter are in the middle of burying a man in mud and dirt. The traveller calls himself…
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Trumpet # 7
av Adrian Velicescu
WHAT SHALL AN ARTIST DO IN A WORLD where art no longer is possible? Ezzie is a trumpet player and his music is in a rot. His band is dispersed; the members gone, each one their own way, after the…
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Volere volare
av Maurizio Nichetti
MAURIZIO'S JOB IS TO MAKE SOUND tracks for animated movies and he's constantly chasing new interesting sounds. He's not chasing women as much, but he immediately falls in love when he meets Angela, a…
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