The short film "Protest ohne Ästhetik und Form" tells the story of the fictitious protest movement in Warsaw in the late 90s. The protagonist Pawel sketches the nearly hopeless attempts of an anticapitalist protest that tries to be neither nostalgic nor in danger of being incorporated. The film is a thought experiment about transformation as a permanent condition and weak gestures of resistance.
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Raymond Weir is a shut in computer genius surviving in the post dot-com era. Disabled as a result of a home invasion that took the life of his late wife, Sarah, Raymond sits in his makeshift apartment above a run down bar, over medicated, mourning her loss and contemplating suicide.
A boy cursed to turn gay when he grows up must sort out his feelings for the girl he loves and the boy – his best friend – he is suddenly lusting after, come to terms with his homophobia, and escape a pscho gay killer on the loose.
It's official; class is back! Riots on the street, old-Etonians in government, a workforce on strike, "Downton Abbey", "The King's Speech", the royal wedding and vajazzling.
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