Drama

A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father’s illness threatens to cut their quest short.Read More »

Plot: “Crash” isn’t his name, but it’s what they call him. Orphaned at the age of seven after a car accident killed both of his parents, Crash grew up with a scar on his face and a scar in his soul. A fear of intimacy has turned him into a melancholy loner; a longing to help others has led him to become a medic on a rescue team. When he’s not out on the streets saving lives, he dreams. Of escaping. Of finding the young woman who always appears just before he wakes. One night, he comes face to face with the woman of his dreams: November is her name.Read More »

Synopsis
Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery.
Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up.
His girlfriend thinks he’s dying. Rumor spreads and soon everyone
he knows gathers to say their last farewells.Read More »

“18 is an important film that intelligently deals with alarming social issues that are not just Greek, but global…” ~Hellenic Film Society

Synopsis:
In a working-class neighborhood of Athens, amid the economic crisis, the resurgence of fascism, and Covid-19, a group of 18-year-old students persecute immigrants, queers, anyone who is just different.Read More »

Set in the coffee fields of Latin America, the movie unfolds through the eyes of Josefina Moreno, an 18 year-old coffee picker, with a rare and amazing sense of smell.Read More »

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The fun-loving theater director Givi is torn from his complacency when he and a group of friends witness a brutal crime in an underpass. Filled with remorse over his inaction, he begins to radically question his life, his relationships, and his work. How can art be created if one is indifferent to life? What responsibility does everyone have towards society? The shocking experience becomes the trigger for a deeply felt confrontation with his very personal attitude to the world.Read More »

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Directed by Farida Belyazid. Cast: Zaki-yah Tahiri, Eva Saint Paul, Shuaybiyah Adhrawi, Bashir Sukayrij, Ahmad al-Buanani. Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre, returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is moved by the voice of Karina chanting the Koran. A powerful friendship develops between the two women as Nadia decides to turn her father’s place into a Muslim women’s shelter. A Sufi tale told in a metaphoric lanaguage, A door to the sky was one of the first films from North Africa that addressed the social and economic changes as proposed by a spiritual Muslim woman on a quest to preserve her cultural and religious identity.Read More »

The second film in the “Suruga yukyoden” series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho’s wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.Read More »

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While the wedding day should be blissful for the bride, Eiko, there is a secret that she can’t tell her fiance…Read More »