Right Now, Wrong Then
Quite by accident, film director Chunsu arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist, Yoon...
View ArticleBlack Sun
An uncompromising portrayal of the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army upon the Chinese military and civilian population of Nanking during the occupation of the city. Hailed by...
View ArticleKiss Kiss Fingerbang
A nice guy discovers a darker side to his personality when his girlfriend reveals her hidden weakness in this provocative dark comedy.
View ArticleKung-fu Master!
A lovely, bittersweet companion to JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V. from director Agnes Varda and star/muse Jane Birkin, this film has nothing to do with martial arts (the film's title comes from an arcade video...
View ArticleJane B. par Agnes V.
"I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap," whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND once...
View ArticleHero
Alexandre Rockwell's rangy, offhandedly eccentric debut feature follows a disabled teenager and his older adoptive sisters who, when pronounced by some protective-services bureaucrat to be "not our...
View ArticleGod Loves the Fighter
Welcome to the Port of Spain, the murder capital of the Caribbean, where the pimps, pushers and prostitutes keep the cities' heart beat pumping every day.
View ArticleThe Yellow Curtain
In the 1970s, Iran seemingly had everything. U.S. President, Jimmy Carter called it "an island of stability" in a visit. Yet, only two years later, in the winter of 1979, a revolution occurred. The...
View ArticleThe Washing Society
When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who's doing the washing and folding? THE WASHING SOCIETY brings us into New York City laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there....
View ArticleGood Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an...
View ArticleYou're Welcome
While waiting for her train in a café in Berlin a young woman suddenly gets into a situation where the barista and two customers start to stir up hatred against refugees. What should she do? Simply...
View ArticleThe Circle Closes
An examination of four different films, which to varying degrees, center on a prop or an object or an item that crosses various characters lives and passes from hand to hand in THE CIRCLE CLOSES. The...
View ArticleViaje
Pedro and Luciana meet at a party and end up spending the night together. The next day, he has to make a trip up to Rincón de la Vieja, a volcano area in Costa Rica, where he is working on his...
View ArticleStray Dogs
In the newest film from Tsai Ming-liang, a single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days...
View ArticleWhat Now? Remind Me
Joaquim Pinto has been an instrumental figure in Portuguese cinema for over thirty years, whether directing his own films, as producer or sound designer for renowned filmmakers such as Raul Ruiz,...
View ArticleI Was There Too
A divorced social outcast would do almost anything to become close to his daughter and ex-wife again. An impulsive decision delivers the reconciliation, sympathy and community he’s been craving, but...
View ArticleThe Fire
On the way to closing the contract on their first home, Lucía and Marcelo withdraw a hundred thousand dollars in cash from their bank. The seller can't make it to the signing and it gets postponed to...
View ArticleThe Playgirls and the Vampire
After skipping out on an unpaid hotel bill, a busload of curvaceous showgirls is forced off the road by a thunderstorm. They rely on the hospitality of a nearby castle, where reclusive Count Kernassy...
View ArticleThe Vanishing City
Global trends in major cities around the world have changed rapidly in the last several decades. These trends are perhaps best exemplified in the city of New York. Told through the eyes of city...
View ArticleA Decent Woman
A Buenos Aires cleaning woman enters the strange world of upper-class nudism, in this wry, deadpan satire.
View ArticleWe Go Way Back
Lynn Shelton's debut feature draws on her past as a stage actress but WE GO WAY BACK is no autobiographical drama. Kate (Amber Hubert) is a struggling actress who has given up her happiness and her...
View ArticleAlmost There
For many, Peter Anton's house embodies an end-of-life nightmare: the utility companies long ago shut off the heat and electricity, the floorboards are rotting and the detritus of a chaotic life is...
View ArticleHomemakers
Part-time punk singer Irene McCabey moonlights as full-time harbinger of chaos (and her life in Austin is crumbling as a result). When her ex-girlfriend moves to kick her out of their band, Irene...
View ArticleDiamond Tongues
Edith Welland dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. Things get worse when the ex-boyfriend she broke up with to focus on her career takes up acting on a whim...
View ArticleChristmas, Again
For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. Devoid of any holiday spirit, he struggles to stay awake during...
View ArticleSami Blood
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life...
View ArticleThe Pain of Others
THE PAIN OF OTHERS is a found footage documentary about Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers emerging from lesions, and a host of...
View ArticleUnseen: The Lives of Looking
This revelatory documentary from artist Dryden Goodwin focuses on four individuals, each with a distinct relationship to looking: an international eye surgeon, a NASA planetary explorer, a leading...
View ArticleGirl Model
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a...
View ArticleTombstone Rashomon
The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western towns ever since. No one has a monopoly on truth, and in TOMBSTONE RASHOMON,...
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