Numero 69

Two friends enter an Emergency Room, seeking help after an incident. They will find themselves living a series of surreal experiences through the eccentric characters that populate the waiting room. But will they get the help they need?

Spacca La Testa

Antonia and Zeno struggle with their marriage during a surreal dinner - while a mysterious Aztec whistle seems to be influencing their actions.

Destruction of Silence

Kids

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

Black Cat in a Dark Room

After years of helping euthanize the terminally ill, a "hospice" worker begins to question the ethics of her job.

The Projectionist

Clive, an old film projectionist, fears his profession is becoming obsolete. Holding on to the love and magic of film, he desperately tries to rekindle his relationship with his daughter, Mary, by forging a new one with his granddaughter.

A Bite of Bone

A little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral.

Die Schwefelhölzchen

15-year-old Marie tries to escape her life. Together with her friend Kati and her clique, she sets off to celebrate New Year's Eve. A lavish party night begins, at the end of which Marie finds her personal happy ending.

Japanese Sacrifice

A friend sacrifices himself, taking the blame for a murder upon himself. A guilty conscience will end up killing the real culprit.

Aimé

Three sisters meet to empty out their late father's cluttered apartment. A disturbing and tiresome chore, filled with ghosts from the past. At the end of the day, it is still messy, but hearts and souls have been set free.

Dead People

Filmed in 1974 and edited and released in 1983 (and then rereleased by its director in 2005), DEAD PEOPLE purports to document the final years of Frank Butler, a local fixture in the depressed burg of Ellicot City with a particular fondness for drink and tales of the dead. Over hazy 16mm footage two decades later, Deutsch adopted a painfully unsentimental view of his early approach, colored as it was by notions of ethnographic film and an undercurrent of fetishism for a man he considered somehow more "alive" than himself. While it chafes against notions of authenticity in documentary and incisively hints at the complicity of the subject in inventing his own history, DEAD PEOPLE simultaneously oozes nostalgia, transcending its own judgment as a gauzy memorial for the man Deutsch once called a friend.

A Bird's Nest

A lonely young boy hides from his troubled life in his secret hideout, until the day he befriends the girl next door.

La casa delle vedove

LA CASA DELLE VEDOVE portrays a group of widows who, he thinks, lived in a constant ‘dialogue‘ with death. In the house where they all lived ‘every colour was saturated with that special reddish shade that you see everywhere in Rome, and furthermore the rooms were filled with a stale, musty smell.‘

Scrap-Mattila and the Beautiful Woman

A silent film about a sorrowful man who's searching for a buyer for his goods and acceptance for his existence.

Love You More

Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.

Metro Aeropuerto

A middle-aged, poor lady who has never flown before embarks on a fantastic journey when a normal subway ride turns into an air ride with check-in.

The Craft

A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.

Propaganda Message

A cartoon film about the whole heterogeneous mixture of Canada and Canadians, and the way the invisible adhesive called federalism makes it all cling together. That the dissenting voices are many is made amply evident, in English and French. But this animated message also shows that Canadians can laugh at themselves and work out their problems objectively.

The Silence

There are children. There are those who abuse them. And there are those who know, but never tell.