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Hiroshi, a timid high school student with dreams of escaping his home town for University, sees his life changed forever after he is lured by his bullies into assaulting another student.Read More »


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Hiroshi, a timid high school student with dreams of escaping his home town for University, sees his life changed forever after he is lured by his bullies into assaulting another student.Read More »


A woman with 1 day to live, attempts to find some closure, in this exploitation revenge throw-back.Read More »


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Yeon-su, the police officer, is dispatched to an island and starts to witness strange situations. Yae-un, who lives in the island after she lost her parents when she was young, and the others´ behavior terrifies Yeon-su. Film director Park who constantly focused on stories related to human greed and collapse, deeply explores the guilt of human and the possibility of redemption again.Read More »


Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they’ll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they’ll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give into the temptation and choose the easier way of collaborating with the regime, or if he will subject himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police.Read More »


Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, artist Cauleen Smith reimagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia. Among the scattered assemblages, a group of women whose dynamic, colourful outfits radiate with energy, gather to re-stage an iconic photograph of men taken by Billy May for Life Magazine in 1966. While paying homage to the feminist abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the title refers to the spiritual journey these women embark upon.
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Kolka is a small fisherman village on the Baltic coast. Being almost thirty but still living with their mothers, three friends spend their days drinking beer, killing time and picking up fights with the neighboring village.
One of them, Andzha, is about to get married. Being busy with “settling his life”, he doesn’t notice that his fiance Simona starts to doubt her feelings. When his elder brother Guido returns from the sea, the brothers now have to adapt again to living under one roof. Meanwhile his marriage plans fail. The brothers overcome their anatgonism when they dicover their illusions about their up-coming marriage and women in general.Read More »


Adapted from Andersen’s tale, the film tells the fate of a young merchant who tries to sell matches. Unsuccessful, she finally burn them all. These moments of warmth accompanied by happy visions, culminating with the appearance of his deceased grandmother.Read More »


Adeline’s Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn’t speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.Read More »


Manami runs the snack bar “Snack Bar Sayoko.” She raised her daughter Sayoko (Izumi Fujimoto) alone. Her father is known as Angel and works as a drag queen dancer. Sayoko doesn’t know that Angel is her father. Manami and Angel have been longtime friends. After graduating from high school, Sayoko moved to Tokyo, but after experiencing several failed romances she goes back to her mother. Sayoko becomes aware that her mom’s snack bar is having financial difficulties and may shut down. She decides to open an Okama bar (drag queen bar) and asks her mom’s longtime friend Angel for helpRead More »