A global anthology film featuring innovative love stories from the some of the world’s most visionary directors.Read More »

Made in the famous “Água de Meninos” market, the greatest popular market in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Salvador is revealed without prejudices, from the world of high finance up to the sordid environment of exotic cabarets.Read More »

Adachi harbored lofty ambitions and moved to Tokyo, lodging at a third-rate boarding house. Managed by a gruff old woman and a taciturn old man, the boarding house shocked Adachi with its musty, dimly lit four-and-a-half tatami room. Already strapped for cash due to paying rent upfront, Adachi was further dismayed when the company he planned to work for went bankrupt. In his despair, Adachi met Jun, an intelligent and beautiful woman, at the boarding house, and his spirits were lifted. However, he soon learned that she was cohabiting with a useless yakuza named Julie…Read More »

Ernst Lubitsch’s So This is Paris stars Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller as a doctor and his wife. The couple is as faithful as the day is long–but when a dance team comprised of Lilyan Tashman and Andre Beranger make the scene, the days grow mighty short. Blue, Miller, Tashman and Berander spend the lion’s share of the film hiding their various peccadilloes from each other. The beauty of the Lubitsch touch is that, while So This is Paris suggests much, there isn’t a single censurable image throughout. Based on a play by Henry Meillac and Ludovic Halevy, this was a favorite of audiences and critics alike.Read More »

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends…Read More »

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after anotherRead More »

During the early AIDS epidemic, a young and insecure gay man meets another man with whom he spends the night, have sex, and shares life experiences and hopes for the future.Read More »

What would happen if there was a power shutdown in Central America?

This beautifully integrated, multi-threaded narrative seamlessly interweaves six stories set in radically different locations across Central America, ranging from the tropical forests of Guatemala to the skyscrapers of Panama City. When a solar storm leaves the region without power, myriad dramas unfold over the course of five days during which all conveniences of modernity are stripped away. In Costa Rica, a pastor and his daughter worry for the future of their church, while in El Salvador, a grandmother and grandson make an arduous journey into the city. A husband and wife reconnect in Honduras, as a young couple nurses a mysterious stranger back to health in Guatemala. Meanwhile, in Nicaragua, a young woman prepares for her quinceañera and in Panama, a housekeeper grows exasperated with her demanding employer.Read More »

Synopsis:
A small hotel’s night desk clerk navigates ethereal fantasies unfold during routine tasks over night shift. Time stretches as transitive space blurs reality and imagination in interconnected narratives unveiling throughout clerk’s shift.Read More »