Ten-year-old Pete lives with his grandfather in an old abandoned outdoor cinema in the desert. When the old drive-in is threatened with demolition by developers, Pete and a friend set off on an epic journey in the hopes of saving his home.Read More »
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“Araz” lives with his witch mother, “Marhamat”, and he’s fallen under her spell to stay with her and not to go after his love. However, “Araz” tries to get rid of his mother’s spell and the closer he approaches his love, the weaker his mother gets. “Ara”z has to make a choice between his love to mother or his beloved and the evil leads him toward his love and his conscience toward to his sinful mother. The man gives the spell to his love as she would make decision on “Araz” life and his mother.Read More »
Albert Speer is an enigma. The highest-ranking Nazi in Nuremberg to be spared the death sentence, Speer was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and his chief architect, tasked with rebuilding Berlin as the capital of a global empire. Appointed Minister of Armaments and War production in 1942, Speer was responsible for 12 million slave laborers. And yet, even now, he has the reputation of being the ‘good Nazi’ – a myth he carefully constructed himself.Read More »
In Chris Marker’s Studio by Agnès Varda is a rare and beautiful moment in cinema where two friends — who happen to be pioneering, legendary filmmakers from the French New Wave — meet in real life and in a virtual world. In the film, which was shot at two points between 2009-2011, Agnès Varda visits Chris Marker in his studio, a few years before his passing. She admires his magnificent mess, snooping around for details that reveal “the hidden side of Marker’s work”: a labyrinth of wires and computer equipment, a collection of images, magazines, and books, and — of course — cats. The film takes on a wonderful surrealist turn when Varda creates an avatar to meet Marker’s avatar in the online virtual world of Second Life.Read More »
Pierre Tardieu, a day laborer, lives with his sick father. Reminiscing about his childhood with his mother on the beach, he can’t free himself from her. Murdering someone becomes the only way of realizing his existence. One day, he meets a pianist called Laure in a bookstore and falls in love with her.Read More »
Zi Kien and his mother Ah Lin have only each other in their life until one day Ah Lin has a new boyfriend. Zi Kien feels that his place in Ah Lin’s life is threatened, and he starts to change himself.Read More »
As the awkward, insecure bubbly Gaby, Lolita Chammah suggests a Gallic Greta Gerwig in one of her not-quite-formed-adult roles. Upon arriving in the country, she’s promptly discarded by her boyfriend, and as solitude is not an option, the companionship-starved Gaby seeks out a replacement. She finds it in Nicolas (Benjamin Biolay), a seemingly hirsute vagabond whose shack she invites herself to share. Director Sophie Letourneur’s follow-up to 2012’s Les coquillettes is a tentative pastoral romance filled with endearing neuroses and an organically unpredictable plot, charming and moving in its investigation of why it is that some simply cannot bear to be alone.Read More »
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Frankfurt’s city architect and planner Ernst May and architect Martin Elsaesser became pioneers of Neues Bauen (New Building) in the 1920s. May fled from the Nazis to the Soviet Union, Elsaesser to a secluded island in eastern Berlin. The grandson of Elsaesser tells the story of his famous grandfather’s forced dropout existence and a tragic ménage à trois with the help of previously unknown private footage.Read More »
Two days in the life of André Provisório, a man with many occupations: private detective, drug dealer, and incorrigible seducer. Between his activities, he meets Mariana, an aspiring theater actress, and falls in love.Read More »