Atopic Films Movies

Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet...

Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest...

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic...

An adult male, 155 centimeters tall, of dark complexion; presents frontal baldness, regular eyebrows, brown eyes, wide nose, big mouth with thick...

Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence...

In the late 1970s, Marcel fled Catalonia to avoid conscription into the Spanish military. For 30 years he has been living in the tropical forests of...

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

It is the end of an era. Marco, Bissoon and their friends have spent their lives working for a sugar factory that is due to close. Sugarcane is no...

How do Europeans deal with their recent dark history (the wars, dictatorships and occupations)? What traces are etched?

Five, even six, variations on a theme, commentary and interpretation of the same photograph. An exercise to tell and summarize the history of the...