Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building from demolition by converting it into a variety store called “The End of the World”. Through this, he meets Huma, a high school student detached from her friends and parents, who finds it is the only place she can find any calm.Read More »
Over the years, there have been some truly outstanding European horror films, such as The Ordeal and Tattoo, and Antibodies is successfully continuing the trend. When serial killer Gabriel Engel is captured in a spectacular police strike, a small town cop Michael Martens travels to interrogate him, believing him to be responsible for the brutal murder of a child from his villageRead More »
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Lin Shu-Yu’s semi auto-biographical debut takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls to midnight skinny dipping to rooting for their favorite baseball team, they do everything together. When an accident throws Yen into a coma, their world starts falling apart.Read More »
Based on Kafka’s story of the same name, “The Metamorphosis” tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.Read More »
Manthia Diawara follows Édouard Glissant whose theories of creolization, diversity and otherness are considered as seminal texts for the emerging studies of multiculturalism, identity politics, minority literature and Black Atlanticism.Read More »
IMDb wrote: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up vitiating and replacing the schools brass band.Read More »
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Jean-Marc Phaneuf, an unmarried electrical engineer, travels to Burundi as a volunteer for the NGO Radio du Monde. He finds a country ruined by grinding poverty, famine, war, disease and appalling social inequality. At the same time, he meets a joyful, brave people hungry for happiness, knowledge and human dignity. The camera that becomes his personal diary also helps Jean-Marc expose the shaky, ineffective workings of NGOs. His investigations turn up a few praiseworthy examples of international cooperation, but on the whole he finds himself drawn to a terrible, inescapable conclusion: humanitarian aid is a utopian mirage. After falling victim to an attack and losing whatever ideals he still had, Jean-Marc becomes entangled in an impossible relationship. He is ultimately forced to leave Africa in disgrace.Read More »