The Saragossa Manuscript and Lourdes
Andrius
(Country: Lithuania; Year: 1980; Director: Violeta Palčinskaitė)
A film for children that switches between reality and fantasy.
Anguish
(Country: Spain; Year: 1987; Director: Bigas Luna)
A mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.
Cheka Commissar Miroschtschenko
(Country: Estonia; Year: 1925; Director: Nikolai Root)
The oldest surviving Estonian fiction feature is a tense tale of love, deceit, and violence.
Closely Observed Trains
(Ostre Sledovane Vlaky)
(Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1966; Director: Jirí Menzel; Writer: Jirí Menzel, Bohumil Hrabal, based on the novel by Bohumil Hrabal; Stars: Václav Neckár, Jitka Bendová,
Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodsky´,
Vladimír Valenta, Libuse
Havelkova, Alois Vachek,
Ferdinand Kruta)
A young Czech railway worker
thinks of nothing but sex during
the Nazi occupation.
La Dolce Vita
(The Sweet Life)
(Country: Italy/France; Year: 1960; Director: Federico Fellini; Writer: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi; Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk
Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Anita
Ekberg, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny,
Annibale Ninchi, Lex Barker,
Walter Santesso, Valeria
Ciangottini, Riccardo Garrone,
Ida Galli)
A gossip writer's view of Rome's
jet set at the hedonistic dawn of
the cynical Sixties.
Closely Observed Trains and The Phantom Carriage
The Girls
(Country: Sweden; Year: 1968; Director: Mai Zetterling; Writer: Mai Zetterling, David Hughes, Aristophanes; Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Frank Sundström, Åke Lindström, Stig Engström, Margreth Weivers, Leif Liljeroth, Ulf Palme, Ingvar Kjellson, Signe Enwall, Bellan Roos, Chris Wahlström)
Three actresses prepare to travel with Lysistrata, Aristophanes' play about women and war. Their offstage lives reflect its themes.
The Girl in Black
(Country: Estonia; Year: 1967; Director: Veljo Käsper)
Psychological drama.
Hotel
(Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2004; Director: Jessica Hausner)
Irene gets a job as a hotel maid, but soon finds out that the previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Humor Me
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Sam Hoffman; Writer: Sam Hoffman; Stars: Jemaine Clement, Elliott Gould, Ingrid Michaelson, Maria Dizzia, Priscilla Lopez, Joey Slotnick, Willie C. Carpenter, Le Clanché du Rand, Rosemary Prinz, Annie Potts, Erich Bergen, Bebe Neuwirth, Cade Lappin, Ray Iannicelli, Mike Hodge)
A once-acclaimed playwright has to move in with his eccentric widower dad.
In A Glass Cage
(Country: Spain; Year: 1986; Director: Agusti Villaronga; Writer: Agusti Villaronga)
A doctor from a Nazi death camp who fled to Spain continues his horrific activities, only to find himself in an iron lung.
Janko The Musician
(Janko Muzykant)
(Country: Poland; Year: 1930; Director: Ferdynand Goetel)
Playing the violin lifts a poor village boy, Janko, from his bleak surroundings, helps him find his place in the world and win the heart of the singer Ewa.
Life In Shadows
(Country: Spain; Year: 1949; Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia)
An portrait of a man in love with the cinema.
Los Tarantos
(Country: Spain; Year: 1963; Director: Francesc Rovira Beleta)
Romeo and Juliet adaptation.
Lourdes
(Country: Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Jessica Hausner; Writer: Jessica Hausner; Stars: Gilette Barbier, Walter Benn, Aurelia Burckhardt, Martin Habacher, Hubert Kramar, Gerhard Liebmann, Elina Löwensohn, Petra Morzé, Martin Thomas Pesl, Linde Prelog, Léa Seydoux, Sylvie Testud, Bruno Todeschini, Orsolya Tóth, Thomas Uhlir)
The story of a wheelchair-using woman's pilgrimage in search of a miracle.
Lovely Rita
(Country: Austria/Germany; Year: 2001; Director: Jessica Hausner; Writer: Jessica Hausner; Stars: Barbara Osika, Christoph Bauer, Peter Fiala, Wolfgang Kostal, Karina Brandlmayer)
Teenage angst in a dull town leads to life-threatening acts that cause distress.
Maria Rosa
(Year: 1965; Director: Armando Moreno)
Marsal, at night and without witnesses, kills a man and driven by his passion for María Rosa, causes conclusive evidence of his crime to fall on Andrés, her husband.
Ocaña, An Intermittent Portrait
(Country: Spain; Year: 1978; Director: Ventura Pons)
Documentary focused on Ocaña, a painter from Andalusia who found the artistic freedom he lacked in the South in Barcelona.
The Phantom Carriage
(Körkarlen, The Phantom Chariot, The Stroke Of Midnight, Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 1921; Director: Victor Sjöström; Writer: Victor Sjöström, based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf; Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Concordia Selander, Lisa Lundholm, Tor Weijden, Einar Axelsson, Olof Ås, Nils Ahrén, Simon Lindstrand, Nils Elffors, Algot Gunnarsson, Hildur Lithman, John Ekman)
A ghostly morality tale about a spirit doomed to drive a ghostly chariot.
Regina
(Country: Estonia; Year: 1990; Director: Kaljo Kiisk)
Drama centring on the wife of an alcoholic.
The Saragossa Manuscript
(Rekopis Znanelziony W Saragossie)
(Country: Poland; Year: 1965; Director: Wojciech Has; Writer: Tadeusz Kwiatkowski, based on the novel by Jan Potocki; Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Gustaw Holoubek, Stanislaw Igar, Joanna Jedryka, Janusz Klosinski, Bogumil Kobiela, Barbara Krafftówna, Jadwiga Krawczyk, Slawomir Lindner, Krzysztof Litwin, Miroslawa Lombardo, Jan Machulski, Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz, Leon Niemczyk, Franciszek Pieczka, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Kazimierz Opalinski, Adam Pawlikowski)
Labyrinthine set of stories-within-stories that take place during the Napoleonic Wars.
Things I Never Told You
(Year: 1996; Director: Isabel Coixet)
Ann, a cute video camera store clerk, moves to a strange city just to be closer to Bob, her boyfriend. Trouble starts when Bob breaks up with her.
Umbracle
(Year: 1972; Director: Pere Portabella)
Christopher Lee, freed from narrative ties, drifts through a spectral Barcelona.
The Year Of The Hare
(Jäniksen vuosi)
(Country: Finland; Year: 1977; Director: Risto Jarva)
A man – with the help of a hare – realises what’s important in life.
