When Sergio, a teacher tormented by his past, is transferred to Remis, a secluded village known as the happiest town in Italy, it seems the perfect place for a new start. But Sergio soon discovers that behind the town’s joyful facade lies a dark and disturbing secret. Each week, the villagers gather to meet Matteo, an introverted fifteen-year-old said to be an angel whose embrace can free one of all pain and sorrow....See more details
Drawing on the legend of the famous vampire and the figure of Vlad the Impaler, the film unfolds as a series of stories radically different in style and form, ranging from pulp to avant-garde, from literary to grotesque, from fantastical to hyperrealist. The latest unclassifiable provocation from Radu Jude!
With great power comes great responsibility, right? But what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.
55-year-old Jos, a small-town criminal, finds himself increasingly sidelined in his own life as his family loses respect for him and his friends mock him. When a drug deal goes disastrously wrong, he becomes convinced that some external force is punishing him, leading him on a desperate search for answers about his fate and his place in the world.
Cristi, a corrupt cop willing to risk everything for a 30-million-euro fortune, believes that El Silbo, the whistled language used on the Spanish island of La Gomera, is the key to uncovering where the money is hidden.
In a small town in Romania, several teenagers learn how to get by without their parents, who have left the country to work abroad. Forced to grow up too soon, they form their own family in a desperate attempt to fill the void. At the center of it all is Flavia, a strong young woman accustomed to hiding her emotions behind sarcasm....See more details
With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.
In the suburbs of Rome two very different souls intersect. One is the son of a restaurant owner who disappeared with his lover. The other is a young mysterious woman who has arrived from China in search of her missing sister. Soon, the entire Roman criminal underworld will try to stop them...
Fatima is 17 and the youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family living in the suburbs of Paris. But after being admitted to a prestigious philosophy university in the city centre, she discovers a whole new world. Along come difficult questions about identity, duty, and the meaning of emancipation. Torn between the traditions she grew up with and her own intimate desires, Fatima must find her own path.
François and Julie, together for sixteen years and parents of two children, can no longer connect intimately. They decide to open up their relationship in order to engage in sexual follies that will allow them to learn more about themselves... But it can’t be that simple, right?