2010s

An aging woman questions her life after suspecting her husband is having an affair.Read More »

A mother’s grief after losing her son brings on a spiral of self-destructive behavior until she meets an ex-convict with direct ties to her past.Read More »

A couple hires a migrant to be a surrogate mother on their behalf, and take her to their beautiful home. While he is at work, the two women become more intimate.Read More »

A young farmer can no longer cope with the strong competition of the big agricultural organisations. When he has to declare his bankruptcy, his girlfriend leaves him and his best friend commits suicide. Then, when a meteorite batters his barn, he can’t stand the situation anymore. He loads his last pig and his shotgun into the sidecar of his motorcycle and travels as an idealistic rebel across the country.Read More »

Legends of French cinema Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche join masterful filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters, Still Walking) to paint a moving portrait of family dynamics in THE TRUTH. Fabienne (Catherine Deneuve) is an aging French movie star who, despite her momentary lapses in memory, remains a venerable force to be reckoned with. Upon the publication of her memoirs, her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) returns to Paris from New York with her husband (Ethan Hawke) and their young daughter to commemorate its release. A sharp and funny battle of wits ensues between the mother-daughter duo, as Lumir takes issue with Fabienne’s rose-colored version of the past.Read More »

Rodolfo lives an empty, cold existence next to his second wife. While his first wife Graciela and their teenage daughter Ana go through decisive moments in their lives, Rodolfo will discreetly try to make his way back to them after abandoning them ten years earlier. 3 is a comedy centered on three characters condemned to the same absurd destiny: to be a family.

Not a very ambitious movie, but it’s cute. It was being written by him, Gonzalo Delgado and Juan Pablo Rebella when the latter committed suicide in 2005.Read More »

A teenager resorts to desperate measures in her efforts to quit her school’s aerobic dance team and assert her independence.Read More »

In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing, refuses to go gentle into this good night.Read More »

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Miyuri Obara (Moeka Hoshi) is a quiet outsider among the mean girls at her provincial school, opting to keep to herself — and to tackle her angst through tentative self-harm — rather than fight back. Her only companion is, in fact, a silkworm.Read More »