Shinya Ban returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns,
that his mutual friend Yuriko is marrying Toshio, the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi,
for her obligation. He encouraged the unhappy Yuriko,
and taught her how to make her marriage with Toshio a happy one.
He makes a fresh start as an architect under the care of Ryosuke Shibata,
who had taken care of his father, but Ryosuke’s daughter Sumiko has feelings for him.
Fujie Kakimoto’s son Koichi came to know about Sumiko,
and asked her to marry him after coming to Shinya to ask for her design.Read More »

PLOT: Provincial France at the beginning of the summer break. A family is going south for their holidays, from Burgondy to the Landes (South French Atlantic coast). When Mischka, a difficult old Grandpa, is accidentally left behind at a highway rest stop by his family, he manages to take his own journey with a ragtag group of travelers. This alternative off-beat family of wandering gypsy-misfit include a rocker, Joli-cœur, a teenage runaway, Jane and a male nurse, Gégéne, who’s left his days behind. Spending a few days together, while they seem a disparate group, they all bond and become a new sort of family. A few days in which to come to terms with how to navigate between the family they’re born with and that which they choose.Read More »

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‘This region for an airman is just a map’, however, whosoever looks closer will discover a thousand secrets of a thousand lives on each Budapest corner or balcony. Memories of peacetime afternoons, family photos, love letters, then bombed houses, tanks driving down deserted streets and decrepit buildings awaiting demolition all flash up for a moment in this lyrical etude by István Szabó, not the first work in his series of filmmaking confessions for Budapest. The story of a city that preserves its past in its buildings and its inhabitants won the grand prix at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1977.Read More »

Major James Prentis VC (Sir Alan Bates) is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of “Shuttlecock.” Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal.Read More »

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A filmmaker connects with a Palestinian woman in Gaza who documents life under bombardment. Their 200+ days of digital exchanges, the meaning shifts after Fatem’s death in an Israeli attack on 16/ April 2025.Read More »

In modern-day Transylvania, vampire hunts and labor strikes collide with sci-fi twists, romance, and AI-crafted tales, as multiple storylines blend folklore, classic horror, and contemporary elements into a fresh take on Dracula’s legend.Read More »

Young girl becomes Alice in dreamland during menstruation. Wild dreams and nightmares about sexuality, vampirism, death, obsessions and other bizarre things.Read More »

San Francisco International Film Festival wrote:
Director Tan Chui Mui returned to her birthplace, a quiet and remote Malaysian fishing village, to film Year Without a Summer, a story of boyhood friends who reunite after a long separation. Steeped in the rhythms of the sea, their story develops slowly and mysteriously, in a meditative tone that illuminates the poetry and emotion of their lives. Beginning with the arrival of Azam, now an adult on the tail end of a successful singing career in Kuala Lumpur, the film weaves together flashbacks to reveal the circumstances of their relationship, as Ali and his wife take Azam on a nighttime boat trip to an uninhabited island. Read More »

Valie Export’s daring film about relationships, “Menschenfrauen” (loosely translated, “humanwomen”), focuses on Franz S., a journalist, and his relationship with four women: the kindergarten nurse Petra, he teacher Gertrude, barmaid Elisabeth and his wife Anna.

Franz “doles out honorary pieces of himself to the ‘human women’ in his seraglio, whispers the same assurances. Eventually, everyone catches on and makes some effort toward independence” (East Village Eye). “A landmark film…Valie Export achieves in ‘Menschenfrauen’ what Godard strove for but failed in his ‘Every Man for Himself’–a human view of a woman’s place in a man’s world…From credits to close, ‘Menschenfrauen’ eludes conventional cinematic vision” (Seattle Film Festival).Read More »