Abel Ferrara explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and words of Patti Smith and the experiences of people at war in Ukraine.Read More »

Plot: Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life’s complexities.Read More »

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Errol Morris’ documentary “Separated” is about an act of cruelty carried out on a massive scale: the forcible division at the US-Mexico border of immigrant parents from their children. It’s illuminating in the most chilling way. Morris’ characteristically cool, analytical approach contains the inherent emotion of the subject matter. Horror arises from the uninflected presentation of information. The movie feels less like a prosecutorial document than an autopsy of a government’s conscience, pinpointing the time of death.Read More »

Trastevere, the historic district of Rome, is put into turmoil by a sensational news story: Leonardo Zulliani has disappeared. The case becomes a true national emergency, but who’s Leonardo? And what really happened?Read More »

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Two Years, Twelve cities, and a wide open throttle, The Roost traverses the land of the rising sun in search of the taste-makers, builders, and artisans that define the Japanese alternative motor scene.Two Years, Twelve cities, and a wide open throttle, The Roost traverses the land of the rising sun in search of the taste-makers, builders, and artisans that define the Japanese alternative motor scene combining old-world hand-built craftsmanship with new-world design aesthetics.Read More »

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he’s caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdownsRead More »

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What makes life meaningful: success or love? This dilemma is faced by Joachim, a fulfilled man approaching the end of his life, and a young mathematical genius, David. This film is a return to the central themes of the director’s work. The answers he gives this time are perverse and not obvious.Read More »

The Door (Hungarian: Az ajtó) is a 2012 Hungarian drama film directed by István Szabó and starring Helen Mirren. Movie based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Magda Szabo (no relation to the director) – tells the story of a writer and her housekeeper who develop an enduring relationship.

Mirren plays the role of housekeeper Emerenc in the novel which has been adapted for the screen by Istvan Szabo and Andrea Veszits.

The film has been selected to be featured in the competition programme at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival.Read More »

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Rough Babylon translation from Spanish: The return of Luisa to the house where she worked as a maid for Marta is the trigger for a long confession, in which truth and falsehood are confronted. La tape, restraint and subtlety , the closed and welcoming a society lady status, with the barbaric and primitive of his former maid who has come to visit for a night, and shows how what seemed an inconsequential meeting thinking gradually becomes a ritual of death.Read More »