In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.
Import/Export is a drama that explores the stories of immigrants facing exploitation and difficult circumstances. It delves into themes of sexual violence, unemployment, and the challenges of starting a new life in a foreign land.
Paradise: Faith follows the story of a woman named Anna, who is a devout Catholic. She spends her days going door to door, trying to spread the word of God. However, when her Muslim husband returns home after an accident and refuses to engage in any physical contact with her, Anna's faith is tested. She begins to question the effectiveness of her religious practices and seeks solace in unconventional ways.
About the incompleteness and insufficiency of the simplest senses: touch, sight, hearing. In cinema, this view traditionally denotes a collision between the authentic and the illusory. Truths and imaginary things are given in the film as images of feelings. “I love to forget time with you,” the heroine says to her blind lover and adds, "You are the most sighted of all the sighted."
After their mother's death, Richie Bravo returns from Italy to his childhood home in Austria, where he reunites with his brother. Together, they attend their mother's funeral and go their separate ways. One goes to Romania to start a new life, while the other pursues his old dream in Rimini. However, both brothers find themselves confronted by their past sooner or later.
Viktor is a highly successful and wealthy actor. For years, he has sought distraction from his inner poverty through his relationships with women. In this movie, his marriage to an emotionally overwrought woman comes under strain when he hops into bed with a teen-aged adorer. However, this isn't the relationship his wife should worry about. The actor has a far more sinister relationship with a plain, hard-faced woman who expresses her deep contempt for the actor. The more she does so, the more he loves her; the more he loves her, the more contempt she shows. Eventually, he comes to see that these relationships are mirrors of his inner life -- which arouses him to despair, as he cannot bear to own up to this.
The inner lives of six people are explored. Each has a connection to the Viennese subway station Schottentor.
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