Marc Châtaigne (Vincent Macaigne), a trainee of the Ministry of the Standard, is entrusted with a delicate mission by the minister’s cabinet director: to go to Guyana to monitor the upgrade of Guyaneige, the first indoor ski track in Amazonia. This must boost tourism. On site, he embarks on a visit to site sites to check that everything is in order. To get there, he is accompanied by Tarzan (Vimala Pons, a pretty trainee at the National Forest Office who serves as a driver. After a road accident, they get lost in the forest. Quickly, the two young people are confronted with many dangers.Read More »
2010s
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Antonin Peretjatko – La loi de la jungle AKA Struggle for Life (2016)
2011-2020Antonin PeretjatkoArthouseComedyFrance -
Audrius Stonys – The Woman and the Glacier (2016)
2011-2020ArthouseAudrius StonysDocumentaryLithuaniaThe Lithuanian scientist Ausra Revutaite has spent 30 years in the Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia, straddling the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and gray cat for company, she studies climate change on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research station. She loves the solitude and silence that her painstaking work brings her. Magnificent shots of her surroundings and everyday work are interspersed with archive footage of the people who preceded her by a century. Not much seems to have changed.Read More »
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Dimitri de Clercq – You Go to My Head (2017)
2011-2020Dimitri de ClercqDramaFranceMysteryQuote:
In a desolate stretch of the Sahara, a mysterious car accident leaves a young woman lost and alone. Jake, a reclusive architect, finds her unconscious. He drives her to the nearest doctor, to discover that she is suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. Jake claims that he is her husband and names her Kitty.Read More » -
Ádám Császi – Viharsarok AKA Land of Storms (2014)
2011-2020Ádám CsásziDramaHungaryQueer Cinema(s)Quote:
Szabi (András Sütö) is a young Hungarian on a German soccer team. After a fight with his best friend Bernard (Sebastian Urzendowsky), Szabi decides to return to Hungary to fix up a countryside home he inherited. There, he meets Áron (Ádám Varga) and a mutual attraction ensues. But when news of their love affair spreads around their homophobic small town, the boys find themselves in great danger. To make matters worse, Bernard also shows up and a turbulent love triangle develops.Read More » -
Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Sanpo suru shinryakusha AKA Before We Vanish (2017)
2011-2020DramaJapanKiyoshi KurosawaSci-FiQuote:
As vanguards of an invasion of the planet three aliens take possession of host bodies and assume human form. With superior technology, skills, strength and endurance the invading species is learning quickly and is sure to overwhelm the people of this planet. Unexpectedly, however, there is one force that could neuter the offensive.Read More » -
Ji Huang & Ryuji Otsuka – Ben Niao AKA The Foolish Bird (2017)
2011-2020ChinaDramaJi HuangRyuji OtsukaQuote:
A 16 year-old high-school student is left behind by her parents and longing for love. She steals cellphones and sells them to men she doesn’t know. As she takes risks, she has her first sexual experience – a cruel one.Read More » -
Seth A. Smith – The Crescent (2017)
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After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son struggle to find spiritual healing at a beachfront summer home.Read More » -
Haruhiko Arai – Kakou No Futari AKA It Feels So Good (2019)
2011-2020DramaHaruhiko AraiJapanQuote:
When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko surprises him by proposing that they have sex again. The one night stand is the new beginning.Read More » -
Quan’an Wang – Tuan yuan (2010)
2001-2010ChinaDramaQuan'an WangSynopsis:
Liu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the family’s approval to take her away with him. —AnonymousRead More »









