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Two identical deaf-mute twin brothers discover they suffer from a genetic disease that will also progressively and irreversibly make them blind.

Leta has not been able to pay the rent for several months. When she and her one-year-old son are thrown out of their apartment, they move in with Sophie, an old woman confined to bed, whose daughter has just employed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and a roof over their head, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.

Thanasis can't pay off his debt to Stelios. When he finds out that Apostolis is in the same position, he asks him to join with him for making a better deal with Stelios. While Thanasis tries to put more players in the game, two young gangsters arrive in town to push over the debtors.

It is necessary to be a visionary, to become a visionary. At the initiative of the research team in philosophy, at the University of Toulouse 2-Jean Jaurès, an informal group of international researchers and doctoral students from Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie, constitute a collective aiming at reflecting and experimenting around the practice of what they call "a philosophical performance": the group Àjáso. Their work began in autumn 2013. It is the subject of the documentary Àjáso, une philo-performance, realised under the direction of the Albanian director, Gentian Koçi. The documentary had its premiere at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in June 2014 in the framework of the international conference on "Théâtre, Performance, Philosophie". Contrary to the academic practice of philosophy, instituted based on a double a priori, that of bibliographic production and immaterialization (in the sense that, on one hand, it consists entirely in writing books intended to be reciprocally and nominally quoted and dated, and where, on the other hand, it is dispensed with concrete materials and effective gestures, actually accomplished), the group Àjáso explores the practice of philosophy as a set of operations, of concrete, instantaneous, indestructible, impersonal, unrecordable, incentive acts and gestures, by using a living, verbal, textual, acoustic, visual, plastic, musical, cinematographic, singularly arranged, borrowed or created, material.

Tirana, Albania. On the grounds where the country's first film studio once lay, film director Kujtim Cashku has established a pioneering film school. It soon becomes a hub for the country's artistic community, in a country notably lacking in cultural outlets. The trouble is, the land that the film school is on is now being eyed up by corporations beginning to invest in the former communist country. And the police, at the behest of the government, are only too eager to storm in and shut the film school down. We follow the action over four tense days as a press conference evolves into a full blown occupation and the police advance with determination on outraged students and professors. Gentian Koçi's documentary captures the dramatic days that followed when students, professors, activists, and lovers of cinema battled to save the outdoor movie screen from destruction by police and corporate interests. On this small battleground, a very big question is being asked - just what role should the state have in nurturing - or destroying - a nation's cultural heart?