Deadlock (2020) aka Zastoj
A rich husband, whose daughter needs a living heat, offers a poor husband money, house, car and his wife in exchange for the heart of his comatose son.
A rich husband, whose daughter needs a living heat, offers a poor husband money, house, car and his wife in exchange for the heart of his comatose son.
In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Angela is a dedicated and sensitive carer. She is a widow. Her husband, as many other workers in the area, died from asbestos-related diseases. When the man responsible for the many deaths, now crippled, is hospitalised, she accepts his son’s offer to become his caregiver, hoping to take her revenge.
A fun fair, on a wasteland, on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the south of France.
The stories narrated by the film bring together individuals all over the world, spanning over sixty years and thus symbolically covering the approximate period of a single human life. Each of the stories is based on true accounts and events, summed up from newspaper articles, statements, and media announcements. Through internal monologues the collage makes up a whole which transcends any individual story.
Sunita, a middle-aged Sri Lankan woman, lives with her teenage son on the outskirts of a northern Italian city where she works as a caregiver. The relationship between mother and son is fraught with tension and silence. Having grown up in Italy, the boy is a cultural hybrid his mother struggles to understand, as she fights to live in a country to which she does not want to belong.
When two lovers embark on an adventurous journey through Lithuania, an unexpected crisis puts their relationship to the test.
A week after she gives birth, Ashley dies in a car crash and her newborn goes missing. Her husband Brian fears that there is something more devious behind the accident.
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is fo...d to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
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