Catalogue

In the 1950's Buenos Aires, Sulamit, born into a family of Jewish immigrants, grows up in the same respectable neighborhood as Friedrich, the son of a former Nazi official. An intimate and tender love story begins, which will be overshadowed by the dark political legacy of both their families.The film follows the fate of the young couple during a timespan of almost three decades, against the backdrop of the 1968 students revolts in Germany and the military rule in Argentina in the 70s.

MYSTERY TRAIN is a temporal comedy that takes place within one twenty-four hour period in Memphis, Tennessee. The film is a kind of triptych including three separate but connecting stories, like those Japanese films made up of several ghost stories, or the Italian ones consisting of romantic comedies. But in Memphis, it's the Italian who is visited by a ghost, and the Japanese who are romantically inclined. And there's an Englishman there too, who causes everything to get pretty fucked up by the end. Although the characters never really meet, in MYSTERY TRAIN the episodic form is finally just a disguise, and the three stories just separate cars pulled by the same train - a minimalist's version of the Canterbury Tales.

A masseur from the East enters the lives of the rich residents of a bland, walled off community. Despite their wealth, the residents emit an inner sadness, a longing. The mysterious newcomer's hands heal, his eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them, his Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory of their seemingly safer childhood. Zhenia, for this is his name, changes their lives.

A lavish upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’état, as seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride and the servants who work for them.

When do legitimate convictions demand illegal behaviors? What happens to a person's political principles when they find their back against the wall? NIGHT MOVES is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most spectacular direct action event of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

NIGHT ON EARTH is a sequence of five comedies which occur simultaneously, but which span different time zones, continents and languages. Each section focuses on the brief relationship which develops between a taxi driver and his/her passenger(s) as they drive through the night, sharing the space of a car interior, suspended between fixed destinations. The film begins in L.A. just as the sunset is being replaced by darkness, then moves into the night of New York, then Paris, then Rome, and finally Helsinki where, as the last sequence ends, the sun again rises, and the winter night fades back into daylight.