Beyond the Looking Glass 2015
We are born into naked bodies that we strive to dress, decorate and change, hoping reaching authenticity. How can we show our true selves if we are caught in the shape of our bodies?
We are born into naked bodies that we strive to dress, decorate and change, hoping reaching authenticity. How can we show our true selves if we are caught in the shape of our bodies?
In a timeless and remote universe, two enchanters are bewitching a strange being made of melted glass. But somehow, they end up falling under the spell of this sacred ritual: the one we call creation.
Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making.
A young man appears to a young girl who dreams of escaping reality, deprived of her freedom. Eventually, the two set off in search of a new world.
A naughty boy paints his grandfather's glasses while he sleeps. Upon awakening, the grandfather is frightened by the imagined blindness, creating a series of confusions in the house. Brazil's first fiction film which was destroyed. Only a few fragments are available.
How was this made? Why? For what purpose and using what materials? What is this anyway? There are lots of things we need to find out about.
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Documentary on the Royale Galery Saint-Hubert in Brussels.
Over two films, this documentary reveals the formation and disintegration of Yugoslavia.
This is a stop motion love story of a glass craftsman.
Different animals play with a marble in this whimsical story from Hermína Týrlová, ‘the mother of Czech animation’
Jalal who dwells in room 212 of the Golha inn, came to tehran wishing to be a famous and beloved actor. Despite his numerous attempts, he couldn't go further than taking part in minor roles. He desperately decides to commit suicide, for he failed both in his job and in his love life, but he can't even do that. He intends to hire a murderer...
The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.
The story of a man who lives outside the law.
A documentary about rock scene of Niš, the third largest city in Serbia.
A woman lives with her seven-year-old daughter and newborn son in an isolated house in the middle of a mournful landscape; it seems as if winter has encased everything in a bluish, glass-like shell. The nervous woman is filled with a sense of dread and fear, which she tries to sate by taking walks in the woods. Her husband doesn't get home till late, the baby is sick, and she worries about his welfare until she is absolutely frantic. Not understanding his wife's problems, her husband suspects her of exaggerating her mental breakdown. He is unwilling to admit that even his daughter's behavior has altered.
Nesrin, a single mother who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer’s oppressive behaviour and bureaucratic hardships while she is on the brink of making a critical decision regarding her relationship with her boyfriend Selim.
To split the visual realm in two: one is permeated with a schizo-imaginific detour, the second vibrates in a collateral contrast. When the split screen goes off, it's hard to tell the difference.
A young, middle-class couple struggles to hide a devastating secret and keep up the facade of normalcy as they host the husband's overbearing family at dinner.