2010s

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When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock legend Shintaro Sakamoto, ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND brings its own sound and vision to the Hiroyuki Ohashi manga from which it was adapted. With pitch-perfect deadpan humor, the film presents a highly original take on the beloved slacker comedy: a lo-fi buddy film with a blaring musical finale that will leave you wanting an immediate encore.Read More »

The incredible story of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, featuring exclusive interviews, rare performance footage and more. This is CSNY’s story, a journey of breakthroughs, breakdowns, break-ups and incredible music. Featuring exclusive interviews, seldom-seen footage, classic and rare performances, and contributions from those who worked closely with CSNY across the years.Read More »

Monica is a social worker from Mexico City, who’s child is suffering from a degenerative illness in his eyes. Having exhausted all other options, a corneal transplant is her only hope. Overwhelmed by the ineffectiveness of the health system and the scarcity of resources, she decides on an extreme solution, within the world of street children.Read More »

In her loneliness, the young masseuse Camille experiences an everyday life determined by constraints and rules. Unable to accept herself, she withdraws more and more into a self-enforced isolation. Camille’s controlled life only changes when she secretly observes her neighbor, who awakens sexual fantasies in her and gives her the courage to change.Read More »

There are several plot strands that come together like elegantly crafted origami. It’s only by watching each fold intertwine that we arrive at the beautiful final product.
A young girl named Reality (Kyla Kenedy) witnesses her hunter father gut a hog and from the animal’s innards she spots a blue video cassette (remember those). She believes the cassette holds some big secret. Her wacky parents think she’s imagining things…Read More »

Ali is in love with a goat. Ibrahim is being driven mad by sounds that no one else can hear. After visiting a local healer who decides they are both cursed, they decide to journey across Egypt in an attempt to lift the curses that torment them. Ali, forced by his mother, and Ibrahim forced by desperation form an unlikely friendship in this uplifting tale of self-acceptance.Read More »

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Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories, open further questions and give Rabih minor clues about his true identity. Descending into a void at the heart of his existence, Rabih encounters a nation incapable of telling his or its own narrative.Read More »

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Blind Detective, the latest film from Johnnie To, could also be described as a movie about movies, specifically movie-making—not that you would know it from its set-up, however. As the title suggests, the film centers around the exploits of Chong (Andy Lau), a former detective forced into early retirement as a result of retinal damage that left him permanently blind. He’s approached by Ho (Sammi Cheng), a cop who displays brilliant physical prowess in combat situations but lacks Chong’s astonishing intuitive abilities, which she hopes to learn from him directly through hiring him to solve the case of a disappearance of a dear friend of hers back in 1997.Read More »

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Paul is a 50-something call centre employee who has had enough of hismiserable non-existence.  Married, with children, he lives acrumby life which consists of just one crass, life-sapping mundanityafter another.  One Friday the 13th he watches a televisionprogramme which gives him just the spur he needs to get him out of thegroove he has been trapped in all these years.  He mounts hisracing bike and hastens away from the suburbs, heading for themountains where he will kill himself.  Unfortunately, suicide isnot nearly as straightforward as it seems…Read More »