In 2004, an ad director faces a turbulent Christmas weekend. In 2026, a filmmaker turns her story into a screenplay, blurring the lines between reality, fiction, and the people closest to him.Read More »

Hal Erickson wrote:
This Danish film is set in 1963, at the height of Beatlemania. Played out against the standard pop-culture backdrop is the story of the friendship between Adam Tonsberg and Lars Simonson. His ego in tatters thanks to a domineering father, Simonsen yearns for the affections of snooty Ulrikke Juul Bondo, though it is “common knowledge” that she’s Tonsberg’s girl. Tonsberg, however, prefers the company of the down-to-earth Camilla Soeberg. When Soeberg becomes pregnant, Tonsberg is forced to borrow the abortion money from former girlfriend Bondo, who wants him to spend a weekend with her in exchange. Read More »

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A film about learning for blind children. Despite their illness, they are full of passion for discovery. Being able to describe an ordinary egg arouses in them a sense of happiness, wonder and curiosity. The real experiential experience comes only after the chicken hatches.Read More »

Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.Read More »

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A penniless student, Jean Valour, falls in love with a millionaire’s daughter, Madeleine Chanteloup. Making a bet with his friends, he vows that within six months she will be his wife. But how can a student without money or rank ever hope to get her father’s blessing? Together with his friends, Jean devises a cunning plan that involves a start-up corporation and an older, unmarried baroness.Read More »

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The simple and honest elementary school principal Taiga (Iwata) was at a loss after the school’s donation money was stolen. At that time, he found a bag containing a large sum of money and hid it at home, intending to use it for the school. His wife, who happened to discover it, took the blame upon herself and committed suicide together with their beloved child. Grief-stricken, Taiga resigned from his position and moved to Oshima, seeking to detach himself from the world. Yet life there became nothing but days drowned in alcohol…Read More »

A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.Read More »

Rural comedy about a farmer’s fiancée who becomes distracted by a handsome young officer staying with them in 1910s Germany.Read More »

In the ruins of the village of Marialva, an old lady guards the entrance of what is now a cemetery, telling and retelling the history of the curse of Marialva that started a thousand years ago, when the place was a crowded village. The story starts in the day three men were sentenced to death and their wife and daughter, sentenced to be marked by fire.Read More »