2001-2010

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.Read More »

A semi-autobiographical account of Lars Von Trier’s early life that follows the misadventures of a young, rebellious student who has aspirations of becoming a film director…Read More »

In this show designed and choreographed by Bartabas and Ko Murobushi, the two artists share the stage with four horses and with the imaginary bestiary of French poet Comte de Lautréamont.Read More »

This is a documentary about the making of the original Cape Fear (1962).Read More »

Anders Nilsson got his film education by working with the fine Swedish action director Mats Helge from the early eighties. After the Mats Helge years Anders made a trilogy of action films before moving on to make När mörkret faller. När mörkret faller got the Amnesty International prize in Berlin. The first time a non-documentary was awarded that prize. Read More »

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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 »