Film Archive

Abel is a therapist who regularly meets with a handful of clients struggling to deal with the physical and emotional problems of being overweight. Enrique is an actor best known as the spokesman for weight loss product who loses his job now that he is fat again; he is also wrestling with his sexuality when he begins dating Pilar, the wife of his business partner, after identifying as gay most of his life. Sofia is engaged to Alex, a committed Christian who ignores her sexual needs. While Sofia is able to reawaken her fiancée’s libido, when she begins losing weight she finds he’s most attracted to heavy women. Leonor has turned to food for comfort while her boyfriend is in the States. And Andres is a scientist married to Beatriz; they and their daughter are overweight, while their son is not. And as slender Abel tries to guide his clients to healthier and happier lives, he’s forced to confront his own issues with fat people when his wife Paula balloons out during pregnancy.

At fifteen, Robbie has only one thing on his mind – losing his virginity. The problem is that he’s in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfill his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.

For her, there have always been two kinds of guys: the ones you desire and the ones who buy you drinks. For him, she is the woman of his dreams, the one he’s been waiting for. He is madly in love with her and patiently waiting for her to realize it. The thing is that she actually wants him to buy her a drink and stay in the friend zone.

French professor Pierre Martin is a widower who lives with his single daughter Catherine. When his aunt Jeanne dies she bequeathes him her guest house in Canada on condition he lives there for a minimum of time. He loves to comply because he has fond childhood memories of this place. In order to make his daughter Catherine accompany him he tells her a great deal of money was also part of Jeanne’s heritage. So both of them hurry to the rural little town Sainte Simone du Nord in Canada. The mayor Michel Dolbec knows Jeanne’s house will become property of their community if the two Martins don’t hold out long enough. He sabotages them several times but they stay. Eventually Pierre Martin and Michel Dolbec become friends after all.

Giamatti stars as a fictionalised version of himself, an anxious, overwhelmed actor who decides to enlist the service of a company to deep freeze his soul. Complications ensue when his soul gets lost in a soul trafficking scheme which has taken his soul to St. Petersburg. The film then follows Giamatti desperately trying to recover his soul.

As the owner became seriously ill, the bicycle factory “Granville” is purchased by a big company that operates in the field of communication and media. Corinne, a young manager, is sent by the new owners to renovate the factory and eliminate one of the two production lines.

In order to make the best choice, she divide the two lines; having no other choice, the two supervisors now opponents, Jean-Paul and Bruno promise to remain friends despite the situation. It will be possible to maintain, however, the promise, when you’re struggling to save your place of work and that of your colleagues?

Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary – with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as “diplomatic housewife” while Maya goes off to work, everything goes swimmingly for Stella. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his “cooking guru”. But Stella’s cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella’s deceptions. Eventually Stella wins Tannu’s full cooperation (and then some!). This unlikely partnership embarks on a much grander, riskier scam, which seems to bring disaster. An unexpected kind of justice is found, but not until the guru-student relationship between Stella and Michael has been sorely tested. Michael has learned many important lessons from his teacher …including glorious traditional South Indian cooking. And Stella? Well…. let’s just say dreams sometimes come true in unexpected ways.

Mr. Haneveld (Gene Bervoets) runs the household like a devoted butler in Emma Blank’s (Marlies Heuer) Dutch seaside villa. It’s a crazy mix of disgruntled staff, unstable lovers and incestuous offspring, constantly harassed by Emma’s absurdly inconsistent orders. Her brother Theo (Alex van Warmerdam) even literally plays the family dog. Only Gonnie (Eva van de Wijdeven), Haneveld and Emma’s daughter, finds an external lover, Martin (Chico Kenzari), who later shares in their pointless misery. When Emma discloses the inheritance everyone waited for without pay is lost in stock crises, only the house is left, a grim finale ensues.

With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham enjoys his life living out of a suitcase, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a new hire and a potential love interest.

Checco Zalone is a young man from Puglia who dreams of becoming a singer. His girlfriend left him because of his quixotic daydreaming, while she wants to settle down.Checco decides to leave Polignano and move to Milan. There he stays with his cousin, but finds it difficult to adapt to the city’s openmindedness. He meets Marika and it’s love at first sight for both. But Marika’s father is a die-hard Northern Leaguer, full of prejudices about southerners, which are only reinforced when he meets Checco! At the same time, Checco finds a job in a restaurant while going to several auditions. Suddenly, his comic and musical talents are recognized. Checco is about to fulfill his dream, but will he have Marika’s love or will he return to his home town and get back together with his girlfriend?