Set against the backdrop of late 1990s and turn-of-the-century Taiwan, The Day I Look at the Ceiling is an intimate, character-driven documentary. Born out of the gritty, hands-on filmmaking tradition of the Tainan National University of the Arts, it explores themes of everyday personal isolation, stagnation, and the psychological state of modern individuals trying to navigate their place in society. The title poetically reflects the vulnerable moments of stillness, boredom, or despair when a person is left alone with nothing to do but stare blankly at the ceiling.
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983.
With the help of her accomplice and little brother Sirieix, she makes a report on palliative home care, to enlighten patients and companions about this comfort and openness for the last trip, the final destination.
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit communities.
In Ryd there is no longer a police station, as Kjell Johansson has created its own security guard. He patrols the streets with dogs, searchlights and iron bars.
A film about Pavel Kushnir — a musician who refused to compromise, in art or in conscience. A “great little man,” as his friends describe him, Pavel played sublime music for two elderly women in an empty community hall with the same devotion he would have brought to Carnegie Hall.
12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna.
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly drink and drug-fuelled party, the event is like many such evenings.
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better.
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in his private life.
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.
