An early TV film by Kurosawa, one of two for the Dramada (1990-1993) series. IMDb lists runtime as 47 minutes – this is only 23Read More »

“Touch” by Icelandic director and actor Baltasar Kormákur tells a touching love story involving memories of yesteryear and secrets that slowly come to light. Kristófer, a chef, is awaiting a medical diagnosis that could have life-changing consequences. Although he has attempted to train his memory, he’s become increasingly forgetful. An MRI scan will show how far his dementia has progressed. But instead of staying put in snowy Reykjavík and waiting for a call from his doctor, Kristófer hops on a plane. He sets off to chase after his memories and find answers to questions about the past while he still can.Read More »

Historical drama, based on a true story, set in Vienna in 1847. It revolves around medical pioneer Ignác Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate Hungarian doctor struggling to find a cure for a mysterious fever that is killing patients—mothers and their babies—in the maternity ward he oversees. His considerable ambition and his research method soon draw the disfavour of his superiors, who order him to stop. They even enlist a young midwife named Emma to secretly spy on him. After a turbulent first encounter, the relationship between Ignác and Emma grows into something more than merely professional. As the fever spreads and with half his peers discrediting him, the tenacious doctor carries on his fight to discover a cure, with Emma by his side. Meanwhile, outside the hospital walls, a social powder keg of political and revolutionary forces is about to explode.Read More »

After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer begins a personal investigation into their origins.Read More »

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.Read More »

The last working factory in Milan. Four men stand on a crane inside. Dozens of their co-workers stand out front, engaged in a joint struggle for saving their jobs. An eight-day struggle against the Italian developers who have decided to level their entire life’s work to the ground.Read More »

Lee Lap Cheung is a slacker who is going nowhere. His ex-wife Yip Ting has become powerful in the business world. In a moment of anger Cheung requests Ting to allow him and his son Jason to spend some time together.Read More »

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A three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs’ work: Zivojin Pavlovic’s dialogue-free “Live Waters” set in 1943, Marko Babac’s “Warriors” about psychological look at the two patients in a hospital room, as well as Kokan Rakonjac’s “Raindrops” about alcoholic’s decaying relationship with his girlfriend.Read More »

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An inventive feature documentary capturing the vivid life of Bill Traylor, who in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, Traylor witnessed profound social and political change during his life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration. In his later years, Traylor poured out those memories from within, drawing and painting over 1,000 pieces of art from 1939-42. Using historic and cultural context, the film is designed to bring the spirit and mystery of Traylor’s incomparable art to life. The transcendent surprise is while Traylor kept to himself leading an unassuming life, he was nurturing a remarkable creative gift that would not be expressed for decades.Read More »