Barumbadings

A series of performances exploring the infinite possibilities of the imagination through the craft of acting.

Adalbert's Dream mines the Romanian communist past for a dryly funny tale of ordinary people just getting on with their lives.

Malaysia's first digital film is an urban comedy set during one day in Kuala Lumpur. It features four entwined stories about desire, where people's paths cross in unexpected ways. A suicidal young man mourns the death of his step-mother, who had come into fatal contact with an apple. A bubbly DJ on the eve of her wedding catches her fiance in an unexpected sexual encounter. A dapper restaurant owner falls for his double. And a bookshop clerk resorts to black magic to get the attention of a girl with a fetish for cook-books.

This is an unusual love story between Mario, a young man from the city who believes he has already failed in life, and a country-woman from a small village in the provinces who is disenchanted with life. To start fresh, Mario flees to the countryside and ends up on a mountain farm that belongs to Ms. Gusenleitner and her father, who gives him work as a farmhand for bed and board. For the first time in his life, Mario experiences love and sexuality without hate and dependency. However, he fears that his idyllic life will be halted when his past catches up with him.

When a department manager at Swedish Television threatens to relocate one of the less talented documentary filmmakers, the filmmaker puts forward the idea to film his dying father.

Chhakka Panja 2 continues with new story of Raja and his friend at the village.