The film comprises six interconnected stories, one of them co-written with actress-screenwriter Iulia Lumânare. Interestingly, the feature recycles (and completes) The Christmas Gift and another, unreleased short film, New Year’s Eve. One of the protagonists is Ştefan Silvestru, the director of the national television station, who has to deal with a career-ending issue: an actress who appeared in a sketch to be broadcast on New Year’s Eve has defected the country. Silvestru’s son, Laurenţiu, who plans to defect by swimming across the Danube to Yugoslavia, is the protagonist of another story, all six of them exploring the atmosphere in Bucharest before the “end of the world”, or the fall of the regime.
Lucjan is a theatre actor whose health is failing. He forgets his lines on stage and feels confused and out of place in his daily life. He decides to end his acting career and soon winds up in a nursing home. In this new place, the elderly man misses his late wife. He starts having nightmares that seem to become real. In one of them, he discovers a passage into a magical world deceptively similar to his theatre. Lucjan starts living in two parallel dimensions – real life and the fairy tale – that become increasingly dependent on each other and intertwined. His immersion in the imaginary world leads to an unexpected ending. A bittersweet treatise on passing. The fairy-tale world Lucjan creates is not so much a metaphor for death as a symbolic reconciliation to its coming.
在90年代的阿根廷,一名高中生被谋杀印发了大规模抗议。在这部纪录片中,她的亲人重新讲述了此事件,以及她们追求正义而做出的努力
15岁的意大利少女梅丽莎(María Valverde 饰)与母亲和祖母的住在一起,她的生活平淡甚至有些枯燥,每天这个天真纯洁的女孩都在渴望一段浪漫的爱情。某天,梅丽莎和好友参加同学所组织的派对,她邂逅了英俊帅气的男孩丹尼尔(Primo Reggiani 饰)。只是爱情之花并未如期盛开,梅丽莎遭遇了一次带有羞辱性质的性经历,她却从此迷上了这个玩世不恭的男孩。在接下来的日子里,梅丽莎可以引起丹尼尔的注意,而丹尼尔则对她进行各种各样的羞辱。在明白丹尼尔的心意之后,梅丽莎通过放纵来进行报复,她甚至将每段性经历都写入日记…… 本片根据曾轰动欧洲的真实的少女日记——《床前100次梳理乱发》改编。
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists. But courageous reporters continue to do their work regardless; without the press there would be no one revealing the extent to which crime and politics are intermingled. The judicial system hides behind claims of insufficient evidence to prosecute crimes, while journalists are the ones who provide such evidence. In State of Silence four journalists discuss their work. One of them investigates illegal logging and environmental pollution, while another writes about police violence against migrants attempting to cross the border. The risks are great, and threats are commonplace. Almost 200 reporters have disappeared or been murdered since 2000. A law was passed under President López Obrador enabling journalists and human rights activists to seek refuge in the US—but doesn’t leaving everything that you love behind you, mean the criminals have won? Some of the journalists return to Mexico because their work is too important. “When a journalist is murdered,” says one of them, “society’s right to be informed dies, too.”