José Varela

In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of shows and the spectator? How does meaning travel in the story? These are the questions posed and proposed by the film.

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Raoul, himble employee, and his wife Marlène, have luxurious tastes and use purchase on credit, bad cheque… It won’t last.

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The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of joyous rock-and-roll musicians, she's having a good time. But what with her fiancé?

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Awarded the 1965 prize for short films at Festival international du jeune cinéma de Hyères.

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A couple decides to spend the summer with their children and parents in a rented house in the middle of nowhere. Everything goes well until the temperature starts rising dramatically and the mother has a truly horrifying accident.

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Cristo is an old age pensioner who leads a peaceful, lonely life and whose social circle is limited to the friends and neighbours in his vicinity. However, the confession of his feelings, hidden for years, for his friend and neighbour, David, unleashes a change in their relationship and in their lives.

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Episode 2 of the stories of jokes in the street.

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Miguel, who escaped from prison two months before finishing his sentence, thinks only of revenge and finding his beloved Diana.

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A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.

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The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.

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Awarded the 1965 prize for short films at Festival international du jeune cinéma de Hyères.

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