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This film consists of the images of Tama River, which runs through the western part of Tokyo. A handheld camera quietly moves along the riverside, capturing its four seasons. It is sort of a meditation in black and white, or an escape if you like, that gives you a sense of ‘Photogénie’.
Dark clouds loom over the winter sky, while in summer, the sun shines brightly on the grass. This is an attempt to conjure up the feelings of standing on the windswept riverbank.Read More »
Jewish life in Poland before World War II. The Vladimir Medem Sanatorium stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.Read More »
Orestis is the richest man on the Greek island of Corfu. He’s also a sadistic pervert. Together with his nymphomaniac wife Stella, he invites young people to his villa and pays them handsomely for participating in S&M orgies. The most beloved gem in his “collection” is the young blonde Bianca, who for the time being tolerates Orestis because he pays for the expensive treatment of her younger sister in a Swiss clinic.Read More »
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery.Read More »
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he’s told was spread by a mysterious “Army of the Twelve Monkeys” ) and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.Read More »
Based upon the famous novel by H.G.Wells. A poor scientist named Griffin discovers a way to make things invisible. Since he has no money to continue his research, he decides to perform his only experiment on himself. After becoming invisible, Griffin has a lot of trouble trying to conceal this from other people.Read More »
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In Bangkok, in a low-budget hotel called “Heaven”, the fates of four guests are interconnected due to a theft in a room: Sean, a paranoid English drug dealer, who is dealing with a powerful local drug lord; the British psychologist Rosa, who is grieving the loss of her son and conducting research with poor children in Thailand; a seriously wounded killer, hired to kill the mobster; and Wit, an abused thirteen-year-old bellboy, who steals from the guests. In the end, we see that it is almost impossible to control life and, sometimes, a subtle incident may lead to fatality. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilRead More »
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In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.Read More »
