Our Pantheons

After winning a house during a poker game, the new owner invests the place with his family. But they will then get acquainted with the 'Funny Man', a sinister jester who has taken up residence there, and whose sense of humor amuses only him, because particularly vicious and bloody.

Runtime

31m

Cast

Tim James, Christian Burgess, Ingrid Lacey

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Todd Solondz

Cast

Jane Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired...

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Agnès Jaoui

Cast

Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Alain Chabat

After a breakup sends him into a manic, drug-fueled spiral, a bipolar comedian from Queens lands in a psych ward for the eighth time, where therapy forces him to relive the delirious path that brought him there.

Runtime

22m

Cast

Matt Pavich, Lina Drake, Johnny Zito

The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he fin...

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Franziska Buch

Cast

Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla, Jürgen Vogel