简介:One morning, somewhere in an isolated Romanian village, a boy wakes up his father to go into town. His father has promised that they’ll go to have their old TV set repaired. The village is not only remote, but a long way from life as most people know it in the twenty first century; if it rains, water floods the house and in order to cross the river, one has to improvise a foot bridge. After they reach town, the father and his son go to a specialist, Bichescu, who repairs their TV set and they both return happily home. The child even manages to get home in time to watch his favourite film starring Bruce Lee.
简介:A stranger who turns up at a resort hotel in midwinter, behaves rudely towards other guests and disappears the next day. Found half-frozen in the snow he is taken to hospital where his story is gradually revealed.
简介:A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”
简介:安娜(格莱·贝 Gry Bay 饰)一直坚信,男友乔纳(马克·史蒂文斯 Mark Stevens 饰)是自己的真命天子,但是很显然,乔纳并不这么想,他抛弃了安娜,开始了独自探索世界的旅程。一晃五年过去了,这五年里,安娜从来都没有忘记过去乔纳,终于,在日复一日的痛苦中,安娜想通了,她开始了在陌生人身上寻求安慰的混乱生活。 一次偶然中,安娜结识了名叫弗兰克(Thomas Raft 饰)的男子,弗兰克的温柔和善良逐渐治愈了安娜的内心,就在安娜重新振作只是,乔纳居然回到了安娜的身边,重新陷入纠结的安娜离开了弗兰克,但几乎是在同时,乔纳再度失去了音讯。安娜将注意力转移到了工作上,但在内心里,她明白,乔纳总有一天还会回来。