The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands

The Island of the Silver Herons(cs)

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Heinrich comes from an officer's family with an army tradition and is preparing to enter cadet college. Paul's father and grandfather are workers, and Willi, left to depend on himself, works as a hotel messenger. The last year of the war is hard for everyone, but while Paul and Willi know their own minds and do not hesitate to help the war fugitives Tony and Sepp, for Heinrich everything is more complicated.

2003(en)

Before embarking on his first tour of duty, a young soldier and his father must face up to the painful realities that have long gone unspoken between them.

Ghosts(en)

Three Kiowa boys attempt to escape a government boarding school in 1891, Oklahoma.

Walls(en)

What is left behind of the relationship of Nora and Kai is a wall full of memories. Nora is just about to take down the photographs, when Kai suddenly appears to get the rest of his stuff. His appearance is obviously too much for Nora especially when he starts helping her to take down the pictures. The more they empty the wall, the more they are reminded of their precious time together and their love for each other. While getting closer and closer again, Nora finally finds a way to open up, to tear down the wall in her head and to reveal her secret, the true reason for their breakup.

I Spy(en)

Kyle's 13. He's a good kid, naive but curious. And on a camping holiday with his family he'll learn what growing up is all about... quickly! Led astray by his older cousins' and convinced to play their version of I spy, he will see things he never dreamed of.

Outlaws(en)

A surreal film within a film about a mysterious drifter and motorcycle stuntman who is hunted by a maniacal Director seeking revenge.

Possum(en)

In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral, spends most of her time under the table, and can imitate the sound of any animal. Their mother is dead. One day, while dad's in town selling skins, Missy teases Kid and gets bitten. There's Hell to pay when dad gets home, and Kid runs off into the night to spend it with her animal friends. Little Man, who narrates much of the story as well as his reflections in a whisper, must sort out loss and emptiness.

Do Útero Ao Túmulo(pt)

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man(en)

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.

ASIA A(en)

A recent spinal cord injury patient struggles to reconcile his sense of self-worth with his new reality as a paraplegic.

Trucks(en)

A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and come up with a way to murder the inanimate objects, a seemingly difficult task considering the abnormal circumstances.

Creatura Dada(en)

Six regal Indigenous women relish in an opulent feast. This dazzling and sumptuous fantasia is a vivid celebration of their majesty and power and a signal of new beginnings.

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil(eu)

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.

Boomerang(ru)

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers(en)

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

Date(en)

Frustrated by a long wait for her tardy boyfriend, a young woman is unsatisfied by the candle he sheepishly offers in retribution, then sulks at the armfuls of roses he snaps up from a deli. Her brooding evaporates at the turn of a corner, when she and her ruefully silent companion are confronted by a wall adorned with flyers depicting people still regarded as missing after the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Two Dosas(en)

Geeky Pavan takes his ‘English Rose’ on a date to the most authentic Indian restaurant in the city. To his horror she goes off-menu, in Hindi...

Cayenne(fr)

During her night shift at the remote gas station, a female clerk agrees to help a man whose car broke down. While they both attempt to repair the vehicle, the driver’s intentions leave the young woman uncertain. In the middle of the deserted parking lot, an air of apprehension fills the night as the events of the evening unfold.

Staging Anna(en)

A Theatre Company prepares for season previews under a manipulative Director, whose fanatical tactics blur the line between illusion and reality.