Bright green leaves stripped from ears of corn, and later, the vibrant yellow ears placed steaming in the waiting bowl.Read More »

This work is the result of a montage of the director’s filmed diary, material he has filmed for nearly ten years.Read More »

The director, a French veteran of the Indochina war (La 317e Section), returned to follow a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam in 1966. The documentary discusses the background and fate of the soldiers and emphasizes how much American culture pervades the soldiers’ behaviors in the midst of jungle life and fighting.Read More »

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Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, away from his troubled family life in Tehran, and drowns himself instead in a research about his father’s past as a communist expatriate in the former Czechoslovakia. Upon visiting the flat where his father used to live 50 years ago, he’s stopped by the police investigating a recent accident. The resident of the flat (Vladimir) has fallen from the window and his father’s name is identical to Rouzbeh’s. This can be no accident and he must accept that Vladimir is his own half brother. As he gets closer to the soul of Vladimir and discovers the hidden corners of his life, he learns a shocking fact about his father’s past, in total contrast to the hero he always admired. This directs him to a course of events identical to the one which brought Vladimir to his fall from the window.Read More »

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A contraband dealer living in Kabukicho discovers that there is danger lurking behind every corner when his untrusting exterior is slowly eroded by love in director Lee Chi-ngai’s hard-boiled crime drama. An ex-gangster who now makes his living selling illegal goods and trusts no one, half Taiwanese/half Japanese outlaw Lau Kenichi (Takeshi Kaneshiro) exists in a land where no one seems to speak the same language and three rival factions struggle to be the most powerful in the city. When the go-to man for one of the top crime bosses is murdered and Kenichi is given three days to find the killer, the appearance of a mysterious femme fatale threatens to cost the resourceful underworld dealer more than just his livelihood.Read More »

When two childhood friends get an unexpected opportunity to keep their fish restaurant open all year round, one of them comes out of the closet as a trans woman, putting a strain on their friendship and they see their lives in a new light.Read More »

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The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?Read More »

Aware that the future does not hold many options for her in a riverside community on Marajó Island, 13-year-old Marcielle decides to confront the violent machinery that governs her family and the women in her community.Read More »

Kunishita Hatsuko, a high school student, is killed when a falling object hits her on her way to school at a construction site. Her spirit meets the spirit of a young man named Iwai Gennosuke, who advises her to hurry up and return to her body and revive since it’s not too late. However, Hatsuko, who has discovered the comfort of being able to float freely through space and go anywhere, is reluctant to return to the earthly world. Gennosuke, who died a hundred years ago and lives in the hope that his body will be miraculously found and revived, is anxious to return Hatsuko’s spirit to her body before the funeral. (Source: Japanese = Wikipedia)Read More »