Visions of Europe

May 1, 2004

2h 20m

★ 5.0

Overview

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Genres

Documentary

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Sputnik

Zentropa Entertainments

Coop99 Filmproduktion

Corazón International

Kasander Film Company

MMG Film & TV Production

Column Productions

Negativ

Filmes do Tejo

Fantastic Films

Rattlesnake Productions

Bianca Film

Maestranza Films

E-motion Film

Athena Film A/S

Princes Films

Cumulus Projekt

Drunken Angel Entertainment

Goran Production Company

Hargla Company

Inkas Production

Lychnari Productions

Public Institution Kinemos Grupe

SHOTS

Titanic

SHOT Szumowski

TT Filmmûhely

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Cast

Narrator (segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag") (voice)

Alan Rees

Teacher (segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")

Johanna Troell

Narrator (segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag") (voice)

Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell

(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")

Johan Arnesson

(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")

Magnus Mårtenson

(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")

Sonny Nilsson

(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")

Sixten Magnusson

(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")

Tage Nielsen

(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")

Ingvar Rydén

(segment "Denmark: Europe")

Henning Moritzen

(segment "Denmark: Europe")

Cecilie Thomsen

(segment "Denmark: Europe")

Marie Hildebrandt Frederiksen

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

7.1

Land Without Bread

Dec 1, 1933

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

7.1

Open Hearts

Sep 6, 2002

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

6.4

Italian for Beginners

Dec 7, 2000

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

7.0

The Secret Life of Words

Dec 15, 2005

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

7.4

Lost in Translation

Sep 18, 2003

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

3.3

We Are Fine

Sep 8, 2014

A boy makes a discovery at the seaside.

0.0

Keepers of the Fire

Apr 23, 1994

For half of a millennium, First Nations women have been at the forefront of aboriginal peoples' resistance to cultural assimilation. Today, Native women are still fighting for the survival of their cultures and their peoples--in the rain forest and the city, in the courts and the legislatures, in the Longhouse and the media. Keepers of the Fire profiles Canada's Native 'warrior women' who are protecting and defending their land, their culture and their people in the time-honoured tradition of their foremothers.

0.0

Ratols & Ransom

Dec 31, 2025

A bustling and average police precinct is disrupted when a frantic teenager enters with a huge problem.

0.0

End Zoom

Sep 14, 2020

Another day, another university writing workshop on Zoom. When a frustrated student gets some unwanted feedback from his classmates, he decides to give a little feedback of his own.

5.6

Alice, Darling

Dec 30, 2022

Pushed to the breaking point by Simon, her psychologically abusive boyfriend, Alice becomes an unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends while on vacation. As she rediscovers the essence of herself and gains some much-needed perspective, she slowly starts to fray the cords of codependency that bind her. However, Simon's vengeance is as inevitable as it is shattering, and once unleashed, it tests her strength, her courage, and the bonds of deep-rooted friendships.

0.0

Le Théâtre National Populaire

Jun 8, 1956

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar. Franju combines sequences from theatrical performances with documentary images, creating links and confrontations between theater and the real world.

6.0

Annalyn

Oct 23, 2012

Agnes is not satisfied with her life. She wants a change, but her relationship with her single parent father and dominant girlfriend inhibit her to do something about it. When the father introduces his new wife, Annalyn, everything changes. The same-aged Filipino stepmother helps Agnes see a new path. Soon emerges something that no one could have foreseen.

6.5

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Nov 8, 2002

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.

7.1

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

Jun 30, 1896

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

7.4

Boys Don't Cry

Sep 2, 1999

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

8.7

The Godfather

Mar 14, 1972

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

7.2

Antoine and Colette

Jun 22, 1962

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).