"Portraits of ourselves"01 January 1994Factual53 mins
This anthropological film was made with the students of the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute as part of Karla Gruodis’ seminar on feminist theory in the early 1990s. Our Portraits brings together a group of women chosen and filmed on video by the students, very diverse personalities.
Peter Sandmann, the charming owner of a marriage institute, is a brilliant matchmaker. His problem: all the candidates would love to share a table and bed with him straight away, but the lively mini-playboy is extremely reluctant to exchange rings.
A story about a rural family in China. The husband stays at home and farms the land, while the wife goes into town to be a prostitute to earn more money.
"Men on the edge of a nervous breakdown" - Vincenzo, Gianni, Nicola and Pino are four friends who for years have been seeing every Monday to play poker.
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do.
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