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Reloved
Number of Pages: 114 pages
Country of Origin: -
Synopsis: A widowed and still reeling university professor pairs up with an autistic savant doctoral student to revive his career and life.
Professor Tristan Claramond has been widowed for two years, and is still very raw. Since his wife Angela’s illness became terminal, he has neglected his health and home and has just gone through the motions at work, risking what was once a promising career. He finds some strength in their two sons, but they do not live with him and are a constant reminder that he failed to save their mother.
Amy David is a doctoral student at Tristan’s university, an autistic savant who was orphaned at a very young age – just old enough to remember losing her parents – and still cared for by her protective aunt Rhea and uncle George. The “love of her life” has been a project that she developed between degree studies, and based on her apparent potential, Amy was convinced by Rhea and George to get her PhD.
Amy’s original advisor, Dr. Dolion, has been impatient and discouraging from the beginning, considering her an “affirmative action hire.” Despite her studies progressing well scientifically, Amy cannot win grants. Dr. Dolion ultimately decides to pawn her off on fading Tristan.
Amy first communicates with Tristan only by email and telephone about her project and experiences, and observes him in classes. As mutual trust builds, she confides in him and he in her. She immediately picks up on his sadness and he ultimately on her sixth sense when it comes to him and to their shared field. When they finally meet in person, it is electric for him, and though she seems standoffish, she actually feels safe.
Amy begins helping advance Tristan’s neglected projects. Her meticulous attention to detail earns her the reward of continuing to work on her own experiment that she adores. As they work together, she finds ways to repay his kindness. Tristan’s affection for Amy grows and she opens up more. He dreams frequently about his deceased wife, who tells him to let go of his previous life.
When Amy’s discovers her original advisor has stolen her work to obtain a prestigious award, she overdoses on her medication and is hospitalized. As she is recovering, Tristan turns his retriggered sadness into rectifying the situation, and to regaining his own health. Amy acknowledges his efforts by initiating increasingly intimate physical contact, despite her initial dislike for being touched.
Amy continues her work and is awarded an important grant, while she and Tristan grow closer. On a Saturday at his home, they consummate their mutual passion and proclaim their love for one another. Amy is awakened the next morning by a loving text from Tristan, to which she responds in kind. We see him cleaning his house, a major step in moving on from Angela. He looks very much at peace.
STAY WITH ME
Number of Pages: 77 pages
Country of Origin: Hungary
Synopsis: The film is based on a true story: in 2021, a van carrying migrants was chased by police near the southern border, crashed into a pole and then a tree. Neither the driver, who was working with the smugglers, nor the African refugees crammed into the cargo hold survived the collision. But it emerged at the scene that someone in the front passenger seat may have been thrown out of the bouncing windscreen, survived and fled on foot. We also know it was a pregnant African woman who survived.
Mátyus lives alone on a renovated farm a few kilometres from his cottage. His wife was a victim of the covid and the literature teacher moved out with his faithful komondor. Mátyus has more admirers in the neighbourhood than a good teacher, but his only friend is Patkó, the farm postman, a man in his fifties, who, after raising two children who were not his, left him a few years ago because he is unlivable and a bit of a nutter, apparently. One night, the komondor signals and leads his owner to a young black girl in labour, wallowing in the corn, around whom stray dogs are already gathering. They take her to the farm, and the man and the dog/!/ deliver the baby, which fortunately is free of complications. The young girl - Cyndie - doesn't know where she is, terrified, clutching her newborn baby.
Matthew doesn't know what to do. All his life, he has wanted children and grandchildren, but his marriage has been fruitless. So he hesitates, wanting to keep it that way for at least a few days. He confides the secret to Patko, the postman, who is shocked but helps. He fetches the clothes his ex-wife left at home and goes to the Tesco in the distance to do the shopping that Matyus thought he should do at this time of year.
The manager of the huge car and truck wash at the southern border is upset because it is a front, actually employing people smugglers. He knows that a woman who was on the list has disappeared. He sends his men out to watch the farm, fearing she can identify his men.
The police are not idle. Magács, a former student of Mátyus, leads the investigation, the technician finds traces on the car's front windscreen and it turns out that someone has fled the scene.
Unaware of all this at the Mátyus farmhouse, Mátyus and Patkó are making a romantic plan to rescue the girl, but they just don't know how to go about it. At one point, Cyndie grabs Patkó's cell phone and calls an unknown number, talking to an unknown person, which turns out to be someone from Germany coming to pick her up. She cannot communicate with her rescuers anyway, she speaks no English, no other language but a form of Sudanese. Because all they find out about him is that he is from Sudan. The child is healthy, she is breastfeeding, the mother has milk, such problems do not complicate the situation. As the Matyus live in a favourite territory of illegal border crossers, they know the rules. The child will be taken from the woman, she will be taken to a care centre and the woman to a camp, and they will presumably be deported back.
This part of the film, which takes place at the Mátyus tanka, is mainly about the growing, almost father-daughter relationship between Mátyus and Cyndie, and the efforts of Patkó to create the conditions (buying, etc.) even though they know that such a story cannot remain a secret for long. Mátyus makes up a cot, tries to make the woman's situation livable.
One day at dawn, the young black man she has called arrives, and the two friends are almost happy to take him, perhaps to a safe place, to their own. At first the man is mad about the woman, but when he sees the child, he makes a big scene, hits Cyndie, and it becomes clear to Mathew and Horseshoe that the child is probably not his. Then the man drives off in his car. This is already noticed by the smugglers watching the farms.
Meanwhile, the leader of the traffickers offers a deal to a man from Budapest who has been trying to buy the Mátyus farm for years because he wants to build a nuclear waste dump on the site, which is a huge deal. But Mátyus has never been willing to negotiate. This farm belonged to his father, he will never sell it. The two men conspire to resolve the situation by force.
Meanwhile, Patko's phone rings with a foreign woman, talking to Cyndi, who is happy because a relative from Austria has offered to help. But to get to Graz, he needs minimal paperwork. Even Patkó and Mátyus make a plan for Syndi to take the train to Szentgotthárd, where her black female relative is waiting for her.
Meanwhile, the young captain Magács discovers what might be happening at the Mátyus farm. As it turns out later, it's no great mystery. The villagers have fun finding out what kind of diapers and other things Horseshoe is buying. Magács knows what awaits the young woman if she is caught. She only breaks the rules because of her former and beloved teacher. The woman's bag was stuck in the cab at the time of the accident, with basic documents in it, but of course no visa or passport.
She goes to see her former teacher and discusses the situation with Mátyus outside the house. His former teacher's painful confession of loneliness and widowhood makes him understand the situation. And he hands over Cyndie's papers.
The small group - Matyus, Cyndie, Horseshoe and the baby - plan to reach the railway station at dawn, with Horseshoe stealing the post office's parcel van. The traffickers also plan to enter the farm at dawn, but they have already disappeared.
Meanwhile, Magács is disturbed by his boss in his apartment at night, questioned for the disappearance of the physical evidence, and is immediately sent to the farm to capture the woman.
The Mátyus arrive at the station.
Meanwhile, the smugglers enter the house but find no one there. On the boss's orders, they set the farmhouse on fire, so maybe the owner no longer needs it and the contractor can own the land, half a success, but something. But after the farmhouse is set on fire, the police arrive, a chase ensues, a firefight breaks out. Magács cannot get into the burning building, convinced that his beloved teacher has burned inside.
In the meantime, the "little one" arrives at the station at dawn, with hardly any passengers. Mátyus bids farewell to Cyndi and his child, then unexpectedly asks her to stay here, to stay together as long as possible, he will help her with everything.
Cyndie does not speak the language, but she understands his intentions and his concern. She is not at all sure that she will be able to get to the meeting place, that her child will stay with her, that the lengthy refugee process will lead to a result. So she lets the train go. On the way to the farmhouse, they notice the building is on fire, there is no point in going back there. They are joined by the young village priest, who has been a major player in the story so far. Matyus takes the baby carrier, puts the baby in it and they set off across the wilderness to somewhere, anywhere but here. This procession ends in a surreal scene: families, men, women and children, who look like hikers, join them on the way, several nationalities, Chinese families and others. With Matthew, Cyndi and the baby, they are heading towards a truer world. Where this is - the film does not tell us. Nor does Life.
The film, although based on a realistic story, is not without humour, absurd situations and poetry. The story may be simple, but the dialogues themselves, the human relationships, keep the film in the realm of the sublime.
A Picture Worth Every Word
Number of pages: 104
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: Money needs force a big city exec to sell her small-town childhood home years after her parent's sudden death. Buried grief and unexpected complications press her to reevaluate priorities and face the burning question "stay or go".
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*An official selection in 14 international film festivals.
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The manuscript is not fiction. It’s true crime.
The anonymous chapters keep coming, leading Jess and the police to more horrifying discoveries of brutal murders committed years earlier. The killer wants Jess to publish his account, word for word, and doing so is the only way Jess and FBI Agent Corrina Stone can find the killer before he completes his evil mission: to kill Fifteen Times.
One cold morning at the Apachieland saloon two men walked in and sat at the end of the bar to my right. One was a big fellow with wavy hair down to his shoulders, mustached and bearded---he looked like he’d seen better days. The other man was smaller, also bearded and mustached, and wore a bandanna on his head. I asked the big fella, ”What’s your name?” “Frank Kawaloski,” he smiled. “Are you guys with the film crew?” They nodded. I looked them over and said, “I hear the director is a Little Cesar and when he says jump, you ask how high?” The smaller man asked, “Do you want a shot of brandy in your coffee?” “Yes,” I replied, as it was freezing in the saloon. Frank asked if I was afraid, and I said, “NO! That guy better not try pushing me or…” and I raised my little fist and shook it. Frank looked at the smaller man and said, “Do you see that SAM? You better behave, or this little girl will part your hair!” “Really? I’m Sam Peckinpah.” We stared at each other for a bit then I said, “Gotta Go”, finished my coffee, jumped off the barstool, and skedaddled.
When the film crew started working in town, I was an extra. Every time I turned around, I caught him looking at me. Understand, although people said I looked like Doris Day, I didn’t think so. I always had a weight problem and I didn’t like myself. I didn’t understand what was happening, as all my emotions were going crazy. Why this man? Why did I have these strong feelings for this old grizzly guy? I felt like I’d been hit by a truck, my heart hammered, and my head hurt. I wanted to run but needed the money, so worked and tried to keep my distance.
The following day, Sam worked the crew from 8 AM to 3 AM. There was always tension on the set, but that night electricity was in the dry cold desert air. Sam looked at me and said, ”You walk by with that cowboy over there and be happy and gay.” “No, I’m tired, find somebody else.” Lucian Ballard looked at me pleadingly. “Ok”, I said, and picked a cowboy from our street shows, walked past the camera, turned, looked into the camera, and said, “Ha. Ha, Ha,” and kept walking. Sam softly said, “Cut… you, my dear are a rotten, rotten, Rotten actress!” “Do it again, Goddammit!” The second time I did do it perfectly.
The next morning up at the barn standing near a beautiful black horse, I looked down the street and watched Sam standing in the middle of the road giving orders to the crew. You’ve heard of road rage, well, I had horse rage. Before I knew it, I was up on that black horse leaning down his neck and said, “You see that man? He called me a rotten, rotten, rotten actress. Let’s kill ‘em.” I kicked that horse and we thundered down the road hell-bent for leather. Sam saw us coming, didn’t move a muscle, and just stood there. Luckily the horse was smarter than me, sidestepped at the last instant so that my leg hit Sam’s arm, and twisted him into the direction we were going.
Pulling up the horse, I looked back and saw Sam standing there looking at me with a Mona Lisa smirk on his face.
The story is emotional, funny, and sad…
The film ends with a mini-documentary...
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