Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.Read More »
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Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas’s sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss’s daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.Read More »
Ten years ago, David Cunio starred in Tom Shoval’s debut feature film Youth. On October 7, 2023, Cunio was taken from the Nir Oz kibbutz and has been held hostage ever since. The filmmaker sends him a heartfelt video message.Read More »
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows Israeli activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional, and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration.Read More »
Based on a true story, Palme d’Or-winning director, Laurent Cantent (Entre les murs/THE CLASS, 2008) depicts the fall of a rising star, carried away by the turbulence of Twitter. Witness the rise and the fall of Karim D., the new wunderkind of French literature adored by critics and audiences alike, whose hate messages formerly posted on social networks by his digital alter-ego Arthur Rambo have been exhumed. Will Karim live with the consequences, or narrowly escape cancellation? “I am sharp and wise. I know poetry and politics. I rose from a social underworld to an exposed position as a provocative Parisian author. I published a novel. But I also write in 140 characters. And when I do, I hit my target. That’s why they all want me out!” -Arthur Rambo.Read More »
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.Read More »
A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father’s illness threatens to cut their quest short.Read More »
In the summer of 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Ryoichi dreamed of becoming a punk rocker when he was younger, but became a timid salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He has feelings for Yuko, but he can‘t tell her how he feels. One day, he has a fateful meeting with a turtle on the rooftop of a department store. He names the turtle Pikadon and he adores it, but his co-workers laugh at him. Ryoichi throws Pikadon into the toilet. He regrets what he did. The turtle though goes through sewerage and meets an old man who lives in the underground. Something then happens.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 »