Family Values

If there is one person Matthew Lancit can’t get out of his mind, it is his uncle Harvey. Dark rings around his eyes, pale, blind, his legs amputated. Like Harvey, the filmmaker also suffers from diabetes. He has the disease under control, but one question is always nagging at him: How much longer? His long-term (self-)observation reliably revolves around fears of infirmity and mutilation. He translates the feared body horror into film, stages himself as a zombie, vampire, a desolate figure. Lancit playfully anticipates his potential decline, serving up a whole arsenal of effects which – as video recordings prove – go back to his youth. It is not for nothing that the “dead” in the title is also reminiscent of “dad.” Because “Play Dead!” also negotiates his own role as a father.

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Ali has to be a doctor according to his mother's will, so he participates for several consecutive years at the entrance exam, but he fails each year; until he decides to find a way escaping from this and marrying his beloved girl. He pretends to be a lunatic. This trick stops the issue of becoming a doctor but causes the girl's father to oppose Ali marrying his daughter. Ali is disappointed and meets a woman who is loved by his father too. His father drives away Ali in order to marry the woman himself. After some events, Ali marries the girl he loves and they begin a new life together.

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Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. In the days that follow, the gay prince can't give up the idea of completing the pair.

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A woman who makes her living as a prostitute must decide her fate between two totally different men.

A romantic comedy about a young officers from army base.