Lisbon, 2027. Marta and Miguel are both researchers that are part of a scientific group and a couple in their private lives. Their relationship will be put to the test on one decisive night when the parameters that Marta is analyzing point to the very high probability of a major earthquake hitting Lisbon. The group splits, debating whether or not to warn the population of the possible impending tragedy.Read More »
Based on the novel of the same name by Chang Kang-myoung, it follows a woman in her late 20s who suddenly leaves her job, family, and boyfriend behind to go to New Zealand alone in search of her own happiness. It premiered at 28th Busan International Film Festival.Read More »
Synopsis:
‘Young lawyer Robert Blair is called on in desperation by two women, mother and daughter, who live in a large, isolated house known as The Franchise, and have been questioned by the police in connection with a peculiar accusation. As feelings in the local village run high, the police build up a case on a formidable amount of circumstantial evidence – against which Blair can put only the improbability of the charge, and some unsuccessful amateur detection…’
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Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves. Will she be satisfied when she looks back for the last time? (summary from IMDB)Read More »
In this drama inspired by true events, a man protesting the Kenyan general election results finds himself wrongfully implicated in an infant’s death.Read More »
This film in 16mm seeks to unravel the porous relationship between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Pursuing his quest for memory and traces in isolated territories, Piton relies on artisanal film developing methods as well as several experimental devices to conjure up a personal experience from the past that has never faded. “In the house where I grew up, something appeared once upon a time, a shape, a presence, an image that has never ceased to haunt the memory of that place. I search for traces of this apparition as if this image from the past had never left the house.” (Emmanuel Piton)Read More »
The earlier films of Valie Export, one feels, were motivated by the author’s desire and need to investigate her own subjectivity, with the audience as a necessary part of the transference and the polemic. Man & Woman & Animal shows a woman finding pleasure in herself, the whole film is a kind of assertion and affirmation of female sexuality and its independence from male values and pleasures… (Joana Kiernan)Read More »
A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi’s cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math teacher Solange despite the couple’s best efforts to keep their relationship under the radar. Though no one in the school much cares for Bertrand’s prose, self-flagellating student Frederic is the one notable exception. Meanwhile, as Bertrand struggles to deliver his second novel, recent big city arrival Cora finds that her fondness for outmoded songwriters may be having an adverse effect on her career trajectory. While Cora struggles to make ends meet by working at a popular chain steakhouse, even this attempt to remain afloat ultimately proves disastrous.Read More »
A strange pilgrim with an army of wolves arrives to a small village in the middle of the night with the curse of the wolf over the baby of a family. Years late Marie grows as a doomed witch with supernatural powers. Very intereting movie in the vein of the Sabbath movies. Witchcraft, superstitions and old European folklore.Read More »