Drama

Synopsis
The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which several students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.Read More »

Synopsis:
After her mother’s death, Sofia returns from a Swiss college to her family’s luxurious villa, in Cascais. Through the relashionship between her father, Henrique, and his lover Laura, she will discover the complexity, egothistic, discrete and hypocrite way of life – from which there is no escape.Read More »

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Threatened by old age and impotence, a count marries a girl loved by his son. When the count notices an affair between the two he reacts strongly.Read More »

“Zan Boko says everything that needs to be said about an endangered way of life.”
New York Times

“The critical camera becomes an instrument of resistance in the face of the technocrats. Zan Boko tells the story of modern Africa.”
Cahier du CinemaRead More »

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Elise (Marie-Josee Nat) is a young provincial woman working in a factory in Paris. Her revolutionary brother secured the position for her, and she falls in love with an Algerian native who works with her. She becomes painfully aware of the prejudice he experiences from the police and his superiors. The recent conflict between France and Algeria only compounds the problems of Algerians in France. Her love and concern for the man causes her to search for him after he disappears one day. Elise considers moving to Algeria to find the man she loves in this bitter social drama
. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie GuideRead More »

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Ten-year-old Aisha’s latest school assignment asks her to say what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realises that all her classmates have written that they are going to take over their parents’ businesses or follow them into their professions. Aisha has bigger dreams: she wants to go to Europe and become an actress. How to do it? Her plan is to find a job on a fishing boat so that she can sail all the way to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Aisha doesn’t agree – and when she meets Hassan, a drunken fisherman who promises to teach her how to fish, she seizes her opportunity.Read More »

On a tobacco plantation, Ernesto and Helena, who have been married for several years, receive a visit from Joaquín, her cousin, who has just come out of rehabilitation and creates a love triangle situation.Read More »

In a remote Himalayan village in Nepal, structured by the ancient tradition of polyandry, a newly-married and pregnant Pema finds her life upended when her husband, Tashi, vanishes on a trading expedition to Lhasa. Accompanied by Karma, a monk and her husband’s brother, she embarks on a grueling trek through the raw, imposing wilderness. But with every step, her physical journey transforms into a profound quest for personal freedom and self-discovery.Read More »

Synopsis:
When Kotaro meets Kuroe, it is love at first sight. They resolve to spend the rest of their lives together. But one day, Kuroe collapses and X-rays reveal something resembling a flower budding in her lung. She refuses surgery and goes home with Kotaro, unable to drink water, lest the bud blooms. When Kotaro discovers that other flowers in the room cause the first water lily to shrivel up, so he fills the house with fresh flowers. Kotaro loses his job, but is more than ever desperate to meet the expense of fresh flowers for Kuroe. Kotaro is finally offered a job with the florist. The house literally shrinks around Kuroe, as the flower blooms inside her and she fades away.Read More »