Andalusialainen koira

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their fa…

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a ca…

Nelikko hautuumaan luurankoja ilmestyy viettämään yön leikkien ja tanssien.

(Nanook of the North, USA 1922) Robert J. Flahertyn klassikko kertoo eskimoperheen elämästä vaikeissa olosuhteissa. Pääosassa on metsästäjä ja kalastaja Nanook, joka kuoli nälkään pian elokuvan valmistuttua. Uusi restauroitu versio.

Luis Buñuelin tunnetuimpiin ja arvostetuimpiin töihin lukeutuva Porvariston hillitty charmi on nimensä mukainen elokuva: hillityn hauska kertomus ranskalaisista porvareista, ns. yläluokasta, joiden elämä on kaukana värikkäästä, mutta unet j…

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in ques…

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfou…

Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their …

Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. While an investigation is underway, stuck betwee…

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intre…

On vuosi 2038. Maan luonnonvarat on kulutettu lähes loppuun. Monikansalliset yritykset ovat aloittaneet kaivostoiminnan kaukaisilla planeetoilla energian toivossa. Moon 44 menetti arvokasta materiaalia ja Felix Stone sisäministeriöstä osall…

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, …

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsi…

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.