Loosely based on an eight page letter Neal Cassady, an icon of the Beat generation, wrote to Jack Kerouac regarding his troubled love life. 20 year old Cassady is working in a tire factory and dreams of a happy life with kids, but when his girlfriend Joan attempts to commit suicide he freaks out and takes off.
A Palestinian man's return to the West Bank in the months immediately following the Oslo Accord - in search of what it means to be Palestinean. The director/protagonist moves between the role of character and spectator, mediator and narrator, as the film itself moves between documentary, fiction, reminiscence and present. Winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Izzy and Peter are newly engaged and madly in love, despite both having demanding professional careers. But their happiness is shattered when Izzy becomes the victim of a random act of violence and falls into a deep depression which threatens to ruin their relationship.
Thirteen-year-old Anaïs is overweight and has a classic love/hate relationship with her older sister, Elena, who is slim and pretty. While on summer holiday with their parents, Anaïs observes her older sister becoming no more than an object of desire as she is seduced by an Italian student. Winner of the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the France Culture Award at the Cannes Film Festival
As an aged Luis Buñuel attends a script pitch about a magical table, the old surrealist allows his mind to drift back into the time. When he hung out with Salvador Dali and Garcia Loca. In Buñuel's imagination the trio is on an adventurous search for the mythical table of King Salomon.
The uneventful life of Irish bachelor Tommy, takes a sharp turn when his vengeful ex-girlfriend returns into his life. A confrontation between the two sets off a series of gruesome events which soon leaves Tommy facing the prospect of being a murder suspect.
A Palestinian man's return to the West Bank in the months immediately following the Oslo Accord - in search of what it means to be Palestinean. The director/protagonist moves between the role of character and spectator, mediator and narrator, as the film itself moves between documentary, fiction, reminiscence and present. Winner of the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Loosely based on an eight page letter Neal Cassady, an icon of the Beat generation, wrote to Jack Kerouac regarding his troubled love life. 20 year old Cassady is working in a tire factory and dreams of a happy life with kids, but when his girlfriend Joan attempts to commit suicide he freaks out and takes off.
Izzy and Peter are newly engaged and madly in love, despite both having demanding professional careers. But their happiness is shattered when Izzy becomes the victim of a random act of violence and falls into a deep depression which threatens to ruin their relationship.
Based on events that took place at a hotel in Northern Italy in September 1943. as the armistice was signed between the Allies and Italy, an SS unit, led by a brutal captain and admirer of Hitler, marched into the luxury Hotel Meina. And incarcerated a group of Jewish holiday-makers.
Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex junkie, returns to high school in a bid to start her life over. When she arrives at her childhood home, Jerri finds that her father, Guy, divorced Jerri's mom and remarried before slipping into a coma.. Her new stepmom Sarah, decides to let her stay, hoping that Jerri's presence will bring Guy back.
Amelie is a young, beautiful woman who decides to intervene in the lives of the people around her. She's hoping to bring them a bit of happiness and excitement. Amelie won the award for Best Film and Best Director at the European Film Awards 2001.
