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- A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
- A documentary about a German-Jewish actor of the stage, cabaret, and films who landed up being forced to make a propaganda film for the Nazis about their Theresiensadt camp in Czechoslovakia, and then was sent to die in Auschwitz.
- Méliès meets Kerouac in a surrealistic road movie though the clouds.
- Nele lives with her dog in an old caravan on the edge of Amsterdam. Wherever Nele goes, she feels something is missing, so she moves on in search of it.
- One night in the trenches during the Spanish Civil War, Joan Brossa heard a voice call his name. He didn't see anyone and walked towards where he thought the sound came from. A moment later, a shell hit the ground where he had just been standing. From that moment on, Brossa wanted to be a poet. After the war, Barcelona was "a desert of expectations", according to the philosopher Arnau Puig. Franco's dictatorship had put an end to all freedom. No expectation was possible anymore. But Brossa and his friends Antoni Tàpies, Modesto Cuixart, Ponç and Arnau Puig founded a group they called Dau al Set: dice seven. Of course you can never throw a seven and that's what they wanted, in all their youthful recklessness: the impossible. In 1948, Brossa wrote the script for a short film. He was crazy about film, but didn't know anything about the practice of making films. Film was magic for Brossa. Lluis Riera was to be director and the other friends were to play roles. But the film was never made and the script appeared about 50 years later to mark the hundredth anniversary of film in a book called Anthologie du Cinéma Invisible, by Christian Janicot. The documentary BROSSA is not a portrait of an artist, but tries, from all angles, to examine the topic of why the world is occasionally moved a little.
- A portrait of the Levantkade neighbourhood of Amsterdam, since cleared out, but once the gateway for Eastern European immigration to South America, and later a home for urban nomads.
- Tens of thousands British and French soldiers lost their lives on the battlefields and in the trenches. Most of them were young boys with no military training.
- The 20th century begins and Europe has high hopes for the future. New inventions are expected to bring peace and prosperity. But it did not take long for Europe to find out that the new century also brought problems and challenges.
- With a single blow, World War I would destroy the optimism Europe had at the dawn of the 20th century.