Le temps perdu
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaA group of people have been gathering for the last eighteen years at a bar in Buenos Aires to read the same book over and over: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Going through their memories and emotions, with a great sense of humor, the group gives the novel a new and unexpected […]
A way home
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaAfter years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is now suffering from Alzheimer’s. From Brussels to Tangiers, this is an odyssey of a family marked by exile—evoked through discretion and confession, pain, separation, grief, and joy.
Taming the garden
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaA powerful man and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the […]
There will be no more night
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, España"There will be no more night" is based on video recordings from the American and the French armed forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria... The film diverts these propaganda images and show how far the desire to see can lead to, when it is used without limit.
IN A WHISPER
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis Childhood friends Patricia and Heidi grew up in Cuba, where they both attended the Film Academy. Independently of each other, they fled the malaise and communist censorship of their homeland. Heidi ended up in Switzerland, Patricia in Spain. They had no contact for years. Now both 40, they seek a way to approach each […]
TALKING ABOUT TREES
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb, lifelong friends for more than 45 years, left their homeland to study cinema abroad. After years of distance and exile, they meet again with the hope of making their old dream come true: to bring cinema to Sudan, a country where both its production and exhibition are forbidden. They […]
MIDNIGHT TRAVELER
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis In 2015, Afghan director Hassan Fazili and his wife Fatima Hussaini received death threats from the Taliban. Together with their two daughters, Nargis and Zahra, they were forced to flee their homeland to Europe to protect themselves from a possible attack. The trip, that would last several years, was filmed by the family, which […]
THE LAST AUTUMN
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis According to legend, “at the beginning of the world once again there was neither sand nor sea, neither soothing waves nor billowing meadows, neither playful winds nor sky, only a gaping abyss.” The nothingness receded, and there at the edge of the world Iceland emerged. A man and a woman traveled with their livestock […]
LOVE CHILD
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis They are blissfully happy together, have a cute little son and are ready for a new start. But there’s a big problem: Leila and Sahand are both still married to other people. And in Iran, there are severe penalties for adultery. The couple flees to neighboring Turkey to apply for refugee status and escape […]
DRØMMELAND
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis The 60-year-old Nils has turned his back on society and has taken his refuge in a small wooden cabin in the mountains of Norway. Despite his attempt to distance himself from the world, Nils brought his cellphone and is confronted with his urge to have contact with others. This documentary describes and observes how […]
WINTOPIA
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis A box of tapes uncovered. A father’s lifelong Utopian obsession. A daughter’s attempt to reconnect with his father by completing his final film. Wintopia traces the enigmatic footsteps of renowned documentary filmmaker Peter Wintonick through the lens of his daughter, Mira, as she tries to decipher the map he has left behind. Reverberating with […]
INLAND
CineCiutat Carrer de lEmperadriu Eugènia, 6, Palma, Illes Balears, EspañaSynopsis A prayer in the form of a film, shot with a meditative camera that caresses over the beautiful Spanish landscape with an extraordinary textured soundscape to match. Inland succeeds in telling a vulnerable, vivid and sprawling story about the challenging present of a group of farmers in a remote yet beautiful village. But the […]
