2001-2010

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With M, Hiroki has made a Belle de Jour for the post-postmodern age. A bored housewife, Satoko (Miwon), lives comfortably with her husband Hideyuki and her son Masato. One day she receives an email from a dating site and begins a double life as a prostitute. She soon attracts the attention of a young man named Minoru (Kengo Kora), who works as a paperboy. When Minoru’s friend shows him erotic pictures of non-professional women, he recognizes Satoko and sees in her eyes the same terrified look his mother had when his father beat her. He subsequently takes to trailing Satoko, and when he discovers she is being threatened by a yakuza (Tomorowo Taguchi), he is unable to hold back from stepping in to intervene. A psychotic drama with erotic overtones adapted from a novel by Seishu Hase, M covers Hiroki’s familiar obsession with people who follow their fantasies to the outer limits.Read More »

A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.Read More »

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Litoral is a four-part 2008 Chilean TV miniseries written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. Originally subtitled “Tales of the Sea”, it is thematically similar to the director’s film Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) and is the second of the oneiric folklore-themed miniseries’ he made for TVN, following on from La Recta Provincia (2007).Read More »

The film is composed of six whimsical yet blackly comic short stories, each one set in the late communist period in Romania and based on urban myths from the time, reflecting the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alleged “Golden Age” (by communist propaganda) of the last 15 years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime. Each episode concludes with “legend tells us … “, each item being legend because, of course, no such thing could have happened during the “Golden Age”.Read More »

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Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country and has also the largest Muslim population. For 12 years, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich has followed an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta. Just as in his previous two multiple award-winning documentaries THE EYE OF THE DAY and SHAPE OF THE MOON, in POSITION AMONG THE STARS, he continues to show us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia. His intimate access to the Indonesian Sjamsuddin family provides viewers a microcosm depicting the most important issues of life in Indonesia today: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling addiction, the generation gap, and the growing difference between poor and rich.Read More »

A young couple in Berlin’s “Mitte” district. He’s lying on the sofa, reading. She can’t stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits desperately. She comes back – but not alone.Read More »

A middle school teacher (Norito Yashima) falls in love with a hostess (Eriko Sato) and they end up quickly getting engaged and moving in together. However, as he struggles to come to grips with his jealousy of her past relationships with men she begins to complain of pain in her breasts. And of course, dies.Read More »

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A country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works as an escort in a karaoke bar. Yanhong introduces him to a policeman who sympathizes with his plight and agrees to help him to find his son. The two quickly become friends. Yanhong also presents her father to her boyfriend, the owner of the karaoke, an older man, who drives a luxury car. However when the four of them meet for dinner one night the old policeman recognizes the boyfriend as a man he arrested over ten years ago…Read More »

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance through the live performance of a wide variety of pieces.Read More »