Gereon Wetzel
Documentary on the process of creating dishes at the restaurant El Bulli. Each winter, at the end of the season, Ferran Adrià, widely considered as the best, most innovative and craziest chef in the world, and his closest collaborators, Oriol Castro and Eduard Xatruch, cloister themselves in their experimental kitchen in Barcelona where they work to create their new menu for the following season. This documentary closely observes these months of creation.
Nicolás Carreras
The famous sommelier Charlie Arturaola arrives in Argentina?s Mendoza province to participate in a tasting contest. Once there, catastrophe strikes: he completely loses his sense of taste. Desperate to find a cure and recover his most precious sense, he travels all over the province to try the great wines of the region and ?wash? his palate in the doing. Although he finds no cure, he does find renewed encounters with his loved ones, his deepest fears and ghosts.
Roberto Rabitti
Short film illustrating the gastronomic principles of Massimo Bottura?s cuisine. Bottura?s recipes serve as the backdrop for tales of fishermen, farmers and artists who follow tradition on the Padana Plain, running from the delta of the River Po to Modena.
David Gelb
Jiro, a chef in his eighties, owns the only sushi restaurant to hold three Michelin stars. Located in a Tokyo metro station, it only has seating for 10 guests who have to reserve a month in advance and pay 300 euros to enjoy the delicacies prepared before their eyes by this exotic character.
Jean-Pierre Améris
Jean-René, head of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker, are highly sensitive people who share a passion for chocolate. They fall in love, but are too shy to tell one another. Their acute timidity tends to push them apart. Thanks to their sweet recipes, they will each overcome their personal lack of confidence and discover their feelings.
Felipe Ugarte, Juantxo Sardon
The musician Felipe Ugarte and the chef Andoni Luis Aduriz set out on a joint project aiming to transform the gastronomic menu into a musical experience. The recipes created at Mugaritz endeavour to reproduce a faithful, transparent world of sound converting the sensations of the palate into musical compositions.
Christian Vorting
Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen has recently been ranked number one in the world by the British magazine The Restaurants. This fly-on-the-wall documentary how René Redzepi runs the kitchen with military precision and talent while exploring the tastes and flavours of the Nordic region.
David Mackenzie
The world is afflicted by an epidemic causing people to suffer the gradual loss of their senses. The film stars a chef and an epidemiologist, inhabitants of a Scottish city, who meet, fall in love and ride out the illness together. Meanwhile, they devise original recipes to keep their clients coming, even if they are losing their sense of taste and smell.