Slow Cinema

Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.

Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.

The story of three men in search for meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives.

A portrayal of the forced migration, which the Ta'ang people need to undergo, caused by an escalating civil war in the mountainous border-regions of Myanmar and China.

A day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In poor areas of rural India, large numbers of villagers-most of them young men-are leaving their homes to look for work in big cities. Many of them disappear into the anonymity of city life, leaving their families to wonder what became of them. For the people left behind, the sense of loss remains huge even many years later. Absence is a cinematic portrayal of the grief, agony and anguish of separation that is expressed with the Hindi word "birha". In a faraway village, missing people, mothers and tired lovers yearn to see beyond the mist. They meet each other in impenetrable silences and endless mourning. They curse the moon for witnessing their insomnia. Guided by Shiv Kumar Batalvi's birha poetry, the film captures the pain, lamentation and yearning caused by separation. The locations are not marked, characters are not named. Absence situates itself in a season of waiting and a climate of uncertainty, where only a loud screech can measure the distance between loved ones.

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.

The ordinary plastic spoon has tried to pull the wool over our eyes. After all, this plastic servant will breathe its last just as its existence finally begins to have meaning. A piece of cheap plastic that will soon fade into history.

On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.

The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.

Nikita, haunted by the civil war, meets Luba, who is as deeply moral and lonely as he is.

Mr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.

Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.

Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.

A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.

A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.