France

PLOT: A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.Read More »

A fortytwo-year-old Parisian named Caroline comes to a small village in Southern France because she has to organise the funeral of her mother. Caroline, who didn’t get along all too well with her deceased mother, finds a new friend in a local woman named Pattie who introduces her to local gossip. While the traditional mid-summer dance is about to take place, the corpse disappears.Read More »

“What interests me is the hypnotic trance into which a viewer can be plunged. When you make a film and it works, you’re like a shaman, a hypnotist.” – Gaspar NoéRead More »

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The film presents a succession of inanimate images of the Genbaku dome, the Peace Memorial in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

To the gentle, haunting music of Current 93 (‘Larkspur and Lazarus’), some 650 images scroll past, all centred on the architecture of this symbolic edifice, the only building still standing after the atomic bomb exploded on the city on 6 August 1945.Read More »

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This film is an adaptation of the historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.Read More »

Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he’s in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He’s charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn’t embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she’s young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realize he’s used her to make a fortune?Read More »

24 year old Queenie prefers the slums of the East Village in Manhattan to her parents multi-million dollar estate in Westchester. A wacky character who plays pranks on everyone, Queenie works as a social worker with kids while unsuccessfully pursuing an acting career in New York. Horace is a middle-aged ex-cop who lives by himself in the same neighborhood. Having been diagnosed by his doctor as terminal with only a few months to live, Horace starts going to a shrink and tries to find meaning to his life, at which point he meets Queenie, who takes him on a whirlwind of a ride, before they finally, truly find one another. Horace’s milieu also includes Martha and Spencer, a married couple of ex-gangsters now living a mundane life supplementing their income by throwing occasional S&M orgies for a few dollars. Queenie’s crowd includes Skip, her fiancé, an ambitious Wall Street broker, and her best friend, Tzocki, who is about to be married. Written by Anonymous (imdb)Read More »

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In 1900, a Parisian courtesan flees to Rome to protect her reputation when her daughter’s learning disability could become exposed. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.Read More »

In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It’s going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their most difficult task: piecing together their own memory. Through these young survivors’ recollections, Samouni Road conveys a deep, multifaceted portrait of a family before, during and after the tragic event that changed its life forever.Read More »