"Ukiyo (浮世, 'floating world'): urban lifestyle and culture, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects."29 May 2008Drama16 mins
After returning to her childhood home, Sofia faces the challenge of living day after day, immersed in a vicious circle where the world seems to stop and where the most important thing is to live hedonistically. However, Sofia will sooner or later have to face the real reason that keeps her trapped in her own life, escaping the conflict that she does not want to face.
A young man prepares to start reading a book in the middle of the night. As he reads, he realizes that the events of the novel seem to have a strange link with reality.
Alvaro, a man obsessed with security, discovers that his nightmares may be premonitions of imminent danger or signs that his obsession has gone too far.
Diana, a young woman who suffers from social anxiety, works in the supermarket which forces her to face her biggest fears; unable to communicate with others, she takes refuge in an ideal dream: a still and silent world where she can be free but gradually and without noticing this place threatens to swallow her into oblivion.
Gerardo returns home with a pack of dogs barking in the background on a dark night. Inside his house he will find an altar with flowers and orange lights.
In a dreamlike wandering, the city becomes a constant rendezvous. In the hustle and bustle of strange streets, the protagonists face disillusionment and life’s obstacles that make them believe that their desire for freedom is only possible in dreams.
Popular movie trailers from 2008
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2008:
A documentary on Paul Watson, who takes the law into his own hands on the open seas, confronting, by any nonviolent means necessary, the hunters who indiscriminately slaughter whales, seals and sharks, along with complicit governments and environmental organizations.
A witty young woman, Samantha Billows, is diagnosed with a bizarre social anxiety disorder. No therapist seems to help her move beyond her plant maintenance job.
Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely choice for the mystical title of the Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace.
Following their mother's suicide, three children are the subject of a dispute between their gay half-brother and his infertile sister, who are fighting for custody.
Daniel is a scientist who just got married to April, an attractive, immature and extroverted youth who reveals a side of herself which he has not yet seen, unleashing conflicts with the inhabitants of her hometown.
