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It's 3 AM.A boy and a girl are wandering in the city.They are looking for a hospital to cure the girl, but it is much harder than they thought.

Sea, sun, island, a family on vacation. And all Yuval wants is to get the heck out of there.

An intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.

Middle-aged couple Rolf and Eva live in a passionless relationship. They wear and tear at each other and Eva begins to feel sexually frustrated. One night she tries to seduce Rolf. He dismisses her but then something happens that will change their relationship forever. (Plot Summary from Swedish Film Database)

Follows the events of DJ Dustin over the course of one wild night at a warehouse party and the morning that follows.

The portrait of a woman who, after her husband's death, travels to the holy city of Banares in order to live out her days and achieve moksha, the final release from the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation. The ghats, a set of stairs leading down to the Ganges River, are the site of religious ceremonies. Being cremated here ensures an end to samsara.

A short rehearsal in a double sense. A satellite of the constellation of works that Portabella dedicates to the analysis of the "materiality" of aesthetic and cultural languages.

The film is divided into two large segments. The first is made up of a couple of fixed shots of the pianist, Carles Santos, playing Frédérick Chopin. The second segment shows him listening to this own recording from a loudspeaker, before he dons headphones lets silence take over the film.

A quasi-musical approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world, this documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country. The real place, a neighborhood in Recife, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed.

The shadow of a deceased World War I soldier is captured by a collector, who offers him the chance to live again if he captures the shadows of 10,000 people, leading to a quest driven by love and jealousy.

With musical accompaniment from the zarzuela 'The drum Grenadiers' by Ruperto Chapí, a pair of custodians are in the basement of the National Library of Madrid showing some canvas awarded with the National Prize for Painting between 1941 and 1969.

Everything is on autopilot. A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home, Mark's family drifts in isolation, escaping the lazy afternoon, when reality circles back.

Follows an amusing tale about anorexia and butts.

In a striking modernist villa, Penn puts on her heels, puts on her sunglasses, and leaves instructions for Jean to take care of the house. Jean plays the cello and receives potential buyers for the villa, while a parrot sits in a cage and a turtle wanders around the backyard.

Short documentary based on the poster 'Aidez l'Espagne made by Joan Miró to help the Spanish Republic in 1937

In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.

Part of the full-length feature ¡Hay motivo!, made up of 32 shorts directed by Spanish actors and directors protesting against the policies of the Partido Popular just before the 2004 general elections.

The film, that took five days to shoot, shows the smelting and casting process of the work known as Puertas Mallorquinas by Joan Miró.

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he eventually loses track and finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.

Abstract images of people being drenched by a water jet.

The short tells the story of a young couple in crisis who finds their way to a desert motel where three odd men plan to meet them for questionable reasons. This film explores what makes the unbelievable believable.

The film is based on the suggestions may caused to the viewer by the relationship of images and things that seemingly are isolated, having nothing in common and that emulate the conventions of film and television advertising. The poet Joan Brossa worked on this script and also puts some maliciousness on the gray and oppressive atmosphere of Franco's Spain, which foreshadow the theme more explicitly on Portabella's 'Nocturno 29'.

As publicity for the exhibit Miró L’altre, organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya in 1969, the Board commissioned Pere Portabella to film Miró painting the “poster” for the exhibit on the ground floor windows of the building.