2010s

A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.Read More »

A woman who can’t stand being alone, but also can’t stand living with a man.Read More »

Yeong-joo, a former synchronized swimming athlete goes to Jeju Island to put together a synchronized swimming team for a performance. She slowly befriends the haenyeo, or female divers, and gradually begins to fit into their way of life.Read More »

Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails.Read More »

Explores the creative process of Nick Cave and his band as the singer struggles with an unspoken personal tragedy.Read More »

Tsugaru” tells the story of a 100-year-old-diner in Amori prefecture and the family that runs the eatery. Youichi (Shingo Fujimori) is the successor to the family restaurant. He has had clashes with his father over the restaurant as well as a love/hate relationship with the town itself.Read More »

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What is it that is so controversial about Islam that more than a few people get antsy whenever said religion is brought up as a topic of conversation? It is actually more violent than other religions? Is there something else about, something specific, that rubs outsiders the wrong way? It seems strange considering that an immense portion of Earth’s inhabitants adhere to its teachings, about one quarter to be precise. How can so many people be wrong, or be practicing the ‘wrong religion?’ Be that as it may, the fact remains that, in this early 21st century, the world’s population is keeping a keen eye on Islam in all its depictions, and not always for the most enviable of reasons. Read More »

Synopsis:
Arturo is an unscrupulous art dealer and Renzo his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend. Willing to risk it all, they develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.Read More »

The brutal Yoshio and his quiet young wife Saeko are on a road trip. Their drive takes a wrong turn when Yoshio decides to pick up a hitchhiker along the way. When the man reveals himself as a deranged bank robber and serial killer, the couple will be forced to cooperate in his getaway. Now it’s Saeko’s turn to take revenge on the man who drove her through hell!Read More »