This nonsense short drama was created for the film festival “Very Very Short” at the Tollywood Theatre in Shimokitazawa. At that time, the condition was (1) two minutes, (2) insert a date, and (3) within the film include the word of “Sa-yo-na-ra”.Read More »
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Geremia de’ Geremei is a 70 year-old usurer, ugly, filthy, rich and tight-fisted, cynical and ironic, who has a sick and obsessional relation with everything: his mother, his father, money, women. In short, with life itself.
For this he thinks he’s alone. But in fact he’s not alone.
They’re all like him. We’re all like him.Read More »
Wu Mi Le aka Let It Be is a documentary recording the lives of several old farmers in Houbi Township, Tainan Country. It generated discussion and debate in the Taiwanese civil society about the impact on agriculture due to its membership in the World Trade Organization.
It is selected as one of the Golden Horse’s 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films in 2010.Read More »
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Jun Ariyoshi works in a gay bar. One night, one of the customers pesters him and a terrible fight breaks out during which Jun kills the man. Jun does not show the slightest sign of remorse and is put in prison. One of the inmates is a young man named Shiro Kazuki, who wears strange-looking tattoos and whose remarkably penetrating looks can kill.Read More »
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The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head ‘up West’ to rob and generally cause trouble.Read More »
Nankin, nowadays. Luo Haitao has been hired by Wang Ping’s wife to spy on the passionate relationship between her husband and a man. But Luo Haitao loses control of the situation: he’s drawn with his girlfriend, Li Jing, to the fever of drunken spring nights.
The insubordinate nature of Spring Fever detonated when, bypassing the Chinese authorities, the film premiered in Cannes competition during the five-year ban from filmmaking imposed on Lou Ye. A film that challenges social and moral taboos, alive with stirring rebelliousness and queer sensuality.Read More »
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During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh looks at an irreparable tragedy that is less visible, yet no less pervasive: the spiritual death that results when young women are forced into prostitution. Angry and impassioned, PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS presents the searing stories of poor Asian women whose lives were violated and their destinies destroyed when their bodies were turned into items of sexual commerce.Read More »
Serge Toubiana followed Isabelle Huppert and her lifestyle for one year. With her, we reflect on the “album” of her life. The images flow: films of her childhood, the importantmoments in her career, intrpersed with interviews, impressing rehersals, scenes from films, and ordinary walks, in the center of a crowd that does not recognise her. We are given an insider’s view of a remakable actress, a discreet woman, who, in this portrait, gives us a glimpse at her emotions, her vocation, and her life.Read More »
A thriller loosely based on Ian Wishart’s book The Paradise Conspiracy, about the mysterious death of a New Zealander who happened upon international banking records after purchasing a used computer.Read More »