Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.Read More »

A thrilling “who-dun-it?” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs Wang (Elaine Chin Yen-ling) disappears. A young girl, Marble (Hsu Ke-ying) says she saw someone falling in the water after a violent quarrel. When the police find no evidence, Marble and her friends launch their own investigation. But Marble is going to get more than she bargained for now that the killer knows there is a witness out there.Read More »

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A young yakuza in love with the girl who’s to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.Read More »

THE GOLDEN FERN (ZLATÉ KAPRADÍ) – 1963, NFA, 115 min. Czech director Jiří Weiss’s breathtaking B&W fairy tale is one of the most unjustly neglected treasures of 1960s fantasy filmmaking, a hauntingly lyrical work with overtones of Wojciech Has’s THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT, František Vláčil’s MARKETA LAZAROVÁ and Cocteau’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. A handsome young shepherd (Jean Marais lookalike Vít Olmer) stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning, enigmatic forest fairy named Lesanka (Karla Chadimová) is sent to retrieve it but instead falls hopelessly in love with him. When he’s forced to join the army and heads off to war, she sews a seed from the fern into his shirt to protect him.Read More »

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ASSUNTINA OF AMÉRIKAS: an opera, a musical one, a comedy, a colored gesture of creative freedom. Assuntina is sought by the camera not like a woman-history, bearer certain political ideas. Besides, fidelity inexists the only one woman’s certain image. And instead of the true woman (Sara, of “Terra em Transe”), we have an object bitter, superficial, closed in the search of her identity.Read More »

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Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.Read More »

A young escort has recently become a mother. The child does not have a father, and Ket is ready for anything for her first child. The girl will have to face a serious internal conflict and make an important choice between motherhood and a business that brings good income.Read More »

Chiara is an actress and daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she decides to live like her father. She dresses, speaks, and breathes like him with such conviction that others start calling her “Marcello”.Read More »

Young photographer Andrés plans to marry his girlfriend, Alicia, but everything changes when he’s mugged by two women on the street. He becomes obsessed with one of his attackers, a beautiful but mentally ill woman named Isabel.Read More »