The surreal fable of a young couple who moves to Tokyo in search of a future. While the boy’s ambition is clear – be a movie maker- the girl drifts gradually apart. Both of them will be drowned in the imensity until the girl, feeling alone, discovers something strange..

Directed by Michel Gondry / Japan / 2008

A cable guy is called in to repair an old mans TV set. Once inside the clients home, the repairman realizes theres nothing wrong with the TV. Rather its the images broadcasted on the screen: wars, famine, illness and kidnappings, that are broken. Moved by the clients naive request, and against his better judgment, the cable guy will attempt to fix the problem.

Directed by Simon Olivier Fecteau / Canada / 2009

“Shaking Tokyo” is about an agoraphobic man, called hikikomori in Japanese. He sustains himself on pizza, living off of money left to him by his father. One day, he does the unthinkable: he makes eye contact with a pretty delivery girl — the first eyes he’s set upon in 10 years. At this moment, the earthquake occurs.

Directed by Joon-ho Bong / Japan, South Korea / 2008

A night watchman spends time on a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. He shows his abilities to a simple janitor, who also like him, is there all night.

Directed by Nuno Rocha / Portugal / 2009

Constantinople 1910.
The streets are overrun with stray dogs.
The newly-established government, influenced by a model of Western society, uses European experts to choose a method of eradication before deciding, suddenly and alone, to massively deport the dogs to a deserted island away from the city.

Won Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, 2010.


Directed by Serge Avedikian / France / 2010

A cinematic poetry from Lituhanian auteur Sharunas Bartas. Segment of “Visions of Europe” omnibus film.

Directed by Sharunas Bartas / Lithuania / 2004

“In the Darkness of Time”, filmed by the ideologue of the French “New Wave” Jean-Luc Godard, represents an essence of visual reflection of the Time.

Godard shows the audience a real Pandora’s box, which seems to be hidden all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity, cinema.

A part of “Ten Minutes Older: The Cello”


Directed by Jean-Luc Godard / France / 2002

An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights “The Perfect Human”, a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.

The Man (Claus Nissen) and The Woman (Majken Algren Nielsen) are in an empty white room with only the essential props for each scene.

A bed, bedding, a table, chairs. “We are going to see the perfect human being in action”, we hear, and Leth’s voice puts descriptive or puzzled words to the little actions the film exhibits: the man touches his face investigatively, fills a pipe, cuts his nails, and gets undressed, but he does peculiar things, too: he jumps as if he is weightless, snaps his fingers in strange ways, and dances with exaggerated movements and no music.

“Today, too, I had an experience that I hope I shall understand in a few days’ time”, he ponders. The whole film is staged with great clarity in its picture compositions with several characteristic zooms to indicate the bodily parts of the perfect human being, and emphasis on the light, boundless nothingness of the room. The soundtrack reveals tones of a clarinet touching on the stylistically consistent visuals.


Directed by Jørgen Leth / Denmark / 1967

Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage of slowed film footage spanning Hrusinsky’s entire career that embodies the human experience: toil, rest, education, romantic love, rejection, desire, aging, frailty. A recurring interstitial black screen with the words “ten minutes” becomes a constant reinforcement of transience, a career and life distilled to the precious few minutes of the film, a reflection of its brevity. from filmref

A part of “Ten Minutes Older: The Cello”


Directed by Jiří Menzel / Czech Republic / 2002

A journalist embarks on a crusade that will put his life at risk to find out the truth behind the conspiracy surrounding the Internet.

Does the Internet really exist or is it all just a conspiracy? Join us in this quest for justice and truth where facts and fiction will meet each other on an epic battle in the name of journalism.


Directed by Hugo Sieiro / UK / 2010

In the aftermath of an apocalypse, a man’s tragic loss leads him to an unequivocal decision.

Directed by Dan Sachar / Israel / 2009

This film is basically about a farmer who travels a few miles to a dingy, remote country cinema to watch Kitano’s Kids Return, only for the showing to constantly break down because of an inept projectionist (played by Kitano).

Segment from “Chacun Son Cinéma” (To Each His Own Cinema) collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.


Directed by Takeshi Kitano / Japan / 2007

This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it encounters strange creatures, experiences love in the sky, grieves the loss of its beloved maker, and tries to grasp its purpose in the world.

In the end, the wayward plastic bag wafts its way to the ocean, into the tides, and out into the Pacific Ocean trash vortex — a promised nirvana where it will settle among its own kind and gradually let the memories of its maker slip away.

Watch “the making of” on Futurestates.


Directed by Ramin Bahrani / USA / 2009

The Driver is carrying an Asian child who has been chosen for a strange ritual. He must drive him through a dark night in the city to get to a monk’s house, while eluding several American cars out to get the child.

A part of BMW “The Hire” film series.

Directed by Ang Lee / USA / 2001

The Driver finds himself in a dangerous, yet highly political situation; this time being pursued by a helicopter gunship while carrying a passenger with a suitcase… the contents of which will decide the fate of a nation.

A part of BMW “The Hire” film series.

Directed by Joe Carnahan / USA / 2002