In a room with only one bed, Shizumi’s left hand was somehow fixed to the bed by handcuffs and chains. “Who is this man?”, “Why am I sleeping like this?” Shizumi, who woke up with a terrible headache, started to recall the memory from last light …Read More »
“composed with the precision of paintings”
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“A surreal depiction of life in a village out of a strikingly beautiful Syrian landscape. Oussama Mohammad’s immensely visual representation of love, hate, violence and family relationships is no less than a masterpiece… and I am using this word here without any reservations! While I usually feel more at home with popular cinema, this particular film is among the very few films, and maybe even the only film within the surrealist tradition that made me feel as enthralled as I did when I first saw Bunuel’s 1933 masterpiece ‘Land without Bread’.Read More »
The film is a comedic mockumentary depicting the perspective of a filmmaker as she trails a hardcore gangsta rap group called N.W.H. (“Niggaz With Hats”), a play on the name of the popular group N.W.A In many ways, Fear of a Black Hat is similar to the satirical film about early 1980s heavy metal This is Spinal Tap.Read More »
After deciding that violence against women in New York City has gone too far, a group of Manhattan strippers form a vigilante society to fight back as ruthlessly as possible. As the media hones in on the string of murders and castrations that the posse leaves in its wake, two women become drawn to the renegade group in very different ways.Read More »
Tantric Yogi documents the migration of a yogi, his disciples, and some of his villagers to a celebration that occurs just once every sixty years, the One Hundred Thousand Gathering in Eastern Tibet. This celebration commemorates the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet and the man who brought it there in the 8th century, Guru Rinpoche. The film features an exciting culture and the natural beauty surrounding TibetRead More »
Gerhard, an Austrian early retiree, finally settles for Thailand, the land of the sun, to live a good life with his girlfriend Amy. He cuts all ties with the old world and passionately starts to build a home for both of them – and Amy’s family.Read More »
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A trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800s who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who makes a fateful decision while preparing the corpse of one of her patients – an elderly medium who died during a seance.Read More »
A journalist estranged from her violent father discovers that he’s become a victim of work exploitation. When she agrees to help him expose the injustice, it reopens the wounds of their past.Read More »
Faraz Fesharaki documents 10 years of conversations with his family across Berlin and Isfahan. His debut film tenderly weaves together recordings, text, and VHS clips into an intergenerational portrait.Read More »