La Primera Noche tells the story of a pair of farmers whom have been displaced from their territory – a place isolated from this world, in which they have lived their childhood and their youth – and have been brutally sent to face the streets of an unknown city, enormous and ruthless.Read More »
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Started with Flics and then Commissariat, Virgil Vernier continues here his exploration of our passions. Manifest of his obstinacy of observer and moralist, the exergue here, borrowed from La Bruyère: “The city is divided into various societies, which are like so many small republics, which have their laws, their uses, their jargon, and their words to laugh.” To the program of this sentence follows a fixed frame: outside night, entrance of a nightclub in Paris. A “physiognomist” is at work. He sorts, withdraws behind the silence of the verdict, sometimes argues, distributes, always generous, sentences.Read More »
In China, Xuie lives an impoverished life with her father who is far from helpful. She is living in Chongqing, the city of 40 million people. She works as a teacher, teaching Mandarin to foreigners. Even though she is from Chongqing, she doesn’t speak in Chongqing dialect, rather talking in Mandarin which is the standard language of mainland China. One day, her father gets arrested because of prostitution and she is called to the police. One policeman comes closer to her and her mind is taken by him. In the crowded and busy streets of industrial developing city, Chongqing, Xuie dreams to escape from her painful and hopeless life.Read More »
Synopsis
Druids resurrect the partially mummified remains of Jesus. They force the zombified Christ to commit unspeakable acts as their sect prepares to rule a new age of mankind.Read More »
Seven years after the slaughter of a group of misfits, the sole surviving killer teen finds her own life, and those of her family, now in peril.Read More »
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Frankie is dying. Irene hasn’t forgiven him. And they are racing against time to find their way home. Frankie needs help and Irene is the one he turns to. He must go home one last time. And, like so many times before, Irene is extending herself beyond her common sense. The two set out on a journey that becomes more than getting home; confronting the past, love, understanding, and self discovery. Barking Water is a tale of great love that looks at what brings us all together. It’s a tale of home…and what it takes to get there.Read More »
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.Read More »
“It was that morning that I left the castle. At daybreak, I left without waking anyone. All I remember then is that I came home like a sleepwalker.”Read More »
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The film tells the story of a recently unemployed factory worker in the city of Anyang in Henan province, who comes across an abandoned child. Discovering that the child belongs to a local prostitute and mobster, the poor worker agrees to take care of the baby. When the mobster discovers that he is dying of cancer, however, he attempts to take the child back, now his only heir.Read More »