• Yonfan – Mei shao nian zhi lian AKA Bishonen (1998)

    1991-2000DramaHong KongQueer Cinema(s)RomanceYonfan

    Quote:
    Jet is the star gigolo in Hong Kong. Arrogant, sexy, everyone falls in love with him, but he falls in love with no one… until one day he meets Sam, the hunkiest policeman to ever pound a beat on Hollywood Road. From then on, Jet changes himself into somebody he is not: innocent, sweet, clean, pure. It’s way of setting a trap to catch Sam. But unknowingly Jet falls into the trap himself. Things begin to get out of control when it turns out that Sam’s past is part of Jet’s present.Read More »

  • Lim Chung Man – Hao Hao Pai Dian Ying AKA Keep Rolling (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryHong KongLim Chung Man

    One of Hong Kong’s most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung’s directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.Read More »

  • Andriy Donchik – Kisnevij Golod AKA Oxygen Starvation (1992)

    Drama1991-2000Andriy DonchikUkraineWar

    Soviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.Read More »

  • Christine Pascal – Adultère, mode d’emploi (1995)

    France1991-2000Christine PascalComedyRomance

    Synopsis:
    Twenty-four hours in the life of a couple, engulfed in the harsh world of a big city. At the end of these twenty-four hours, Bruno and Fabienne may have touched on the possible solution to the eternal misunderstanding arising from man’s quest for sex and woman’s quest for love…Read More »

  • Derek Jarman – The Art of Mirrors (1973)

    1971-1980Derek JarmanExperimentalShort FilmUnited Kingdom

    The Art of Mirrors is an abstract film made in 1973 by director, Derek Jarman. The film, shot in super 8 features figures moving in the foreground and background of an empty space holding mirrors which occasionally flash in the lens of the camera. The images portrayed in the film are reminiscent of Jarman`s Abstract Landscape paintings of the same period. In his diary Jarman wrote of this film, `this is only something that could only be done on a Super 8 camera, with it`s built in meters and effects.` The film`s title was reworked in the script for `Dr Dee The Art Of Mirrors and The Summoning Of Angels` in 1975.Read More »

  • Laurynas Bareisa – Piligrimai AKA Pilgrims (2021)

    Drama2021-2030Laurynas BareisaLithuania

    Indre and Paulius travel to the small town where a gruesome crime was committed and they learn it is not as easy as expected to revisit the past.Read More »

  • NDU – Motoshinkakarannu (1971)

    1971-1980DocumentaryJapanNDU

    A documentary film about prostitutes, yakuza, labor unions, and tourists in Koza City (now Okinawa City) before the reversion of Okinawa to Japan.

    Shot over a period of 15 months from April 1969 to July 1970, Motoshinkakarannu —which takes its name from the Okinawan word for “business without seed money” (a euphemism for prostitution)—captures a tumultuous time in Okinawa’s occupation. With the impending reversion, the NDU chronicles a confluence of sentiments across the island prefecture from anti-American riots to labor protests. An immediate and radical work, Motoshinkakarannu delivers an unflinching snapshot of Okinawa at the time, revealing racial tensions, discrimination, imperialist gazes and more through its raw immersion into the lives of sex workers, yakuza, tourists and GIs.Read More »

  • Robert Altman – The Long Goodbye [4K Restoration] (1973)

    1971-1980CrimeDramaRobert AltmanUSA

    Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife’s murder.Read More »

  • Mustafa Altioklar – Asansör AKA Elevator (1999)

    1991-2000DramaMustafa AltioklarTurkey

    Plot
    The images reflected on the screen come from a camera that Namik is carrying, a camera that is forgotten. The young man running in a hospital corridor is looking for his wife, Nurcan, who is a nurse. He finds her and takes the trigger of his gun. And then he decides on his own life and all this is recorded in the camera. Can goes to an address he never met to meet a woman he met on the internet and would see for the first time in the physical environment. The apartment is an old, renovated and abandoned look. Can is in the elevator. When the 4th floor comes, the elevator stops. As the interior doors slammer and make noise, the cabin falls half a meter down. When you are shouting in the panic, the door to the apartment opposite the cabin opens. A woman is seen. From this moment on, the 4-day slavery in Can’s cabin begins.Read More »

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