Drama

Anna Maria, a girl from a small provincial town, runs away with her boyfriend to Rome because her parents are opposed to their marriage and asks her brother Roberto for protection. At Rome Anna Maria gets acquainted with Diana, her brother’s complicated lover, full of impetus, rebellion and disorder, and Paolo, a friend Roberto shares not only the flat but also concerns and hopes with. The absolute freedom which the two friends use to live with leads Anna Maria to discover a new way to conceive human relationships, hence she decides to shrug her moral prejudiges offRead 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 »

When Maria meets Alex, a resident who is paraplegic, she goes through a transformational experience and they start an illicit relationship. Alex’s demands and humiliation test Maria to the breaking point as their love grows stronger.Read More »

A private investigator is confronted by the police and the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.Read More »

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Abschied vom falschen Paradies, the second film of director Tevfik Baser’s Trilogy of Isolated Life, is about the life story of Elif, who is imprisoned in Germany. Elif, who settled in Germany after her marriage, is raped by her husband. Unable to withstand the pressure of her husband any longer, the young woman kills him during a fight and is sentenced to six years of heavy punishment. Clinging to life inside, Elif learns German, starts her workshop and changes the general outlook downwards. He establishes a free life for himself, for his environment. Outside the prison, those who want to avenge him are waiting for his relatives.Read More »

Tony Au directed this Hong Kong-Japanese co-production lovingly adapted for the screen by Joyce Chan. Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-hua.Read More »

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Lovely granny in Paris, potted string bean plant with a tender devotion akin to love and plants it in a row of blossoming white shrubs in the Tuileries Garden in Paris.Read More »

It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband’s death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbour that she has always desired yet never vanquished will give Agathe the strength to get her life back on track…Read More »

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The film opens with an actress, Leili (Leila Hatami), in the middle of filming a scene for her latest film. We quickly learn she has only recently lost her husband, Koshrow (Ali Mosaffa) under strange circumstances, and the film she’s making is eerily about a woman mourning the loss of her recently deceased husband. However, Leili cannot get around saying a certain line about forgetting the face of her husband. She keeps laughing when she should be crying. Chalking it up to the fact that she’s returned to work too soon, the film set grumbles as Koshrow’s omniscient narration informs us that he’s recently died and there’s a strange turn of events that have led us here…Read More »