After Our Beloved Month of August, Miguel Gomes returns with Tabu, an engaging, provocative and poetic film set both in Portugal and in an un-named African location. Bearing the same title as F. W. Murnau's classic Tabu (1931), shot in black and white and taking place at least partly in a distant land, Gomes' third feature film is divided in two distinctive yet complementary storylines. Whilst the first part, shot in 35mm and in the present time, portrays a society wallowing in nostalgia, the second part, ..
Eugene (Vaclav Helsus) leads a double life - one real the other in his dreams. In real life he has a wife called Milada (Zuzana Kronerova); in his dreams he has a young girlfriend called Eugenia (Klara Issova). Sensing that these dreams have some deeper meaning he goes to see a psychoanalyst Dr. Holubova who interprets them for him with the help of some argumentative psychoanalytical griping from the animated heads of Freud and Jung. As we gradually piecing together Eugene's life story his dream-worl..
Alice is a 30 year-old sailor, in love with Félix who waits for her ashore as she unexpectedly sets off as second mechanic on the Fidelio, an old freighter. On board, she discovers not only that she replaces a recently deceased mechanic, but also that the Captain is none other than her first great love, Gaël. In her cabin Alice comes across the diary of the former mechanic, and by reading its content ?accounts of technical problems, sexual conquests and lovelorn emotions ? she finds, oddly, that they echo..
Elena and Vladimir come from very different backgrounds. Vladimir is a wealthy cold man while Elena comes from a modest background serving as his docile wife. The two of them have met late in life each with a child from a previous marriage. Vladimir has a distant relationship with his daughter. In contrast Elena desperately tries to save her alcoholic son and his family from poverty with means she alone could not provide. When her husband Vladimir has a heart attack he suddenly realizes his time on e..
Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth. Atop its mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama Desert is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners disappeared by the Chilean army after the military coup of September 11 1973..
A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei a seasoned meteorologist and Pavel a recent college graduate are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei when fear lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere.
Martina Gedeck best known for her performance in the Academy Award-winning film The Lives Of Others now stars in The Wall a contemporary female Robinson Crusoe story. Based on Marlen Haushofer's best-selling eponymous novel from the 1960s the film is a highly original exploration of the experience of solitude and survival. Gedeck plays an unnamed Austrian woman who goes to a secluded Alpine hunting lodge with her cousin (Ulrike Beimpold) and the latter's husband (Karl Heinz Hackl) who shortly after th..
