2010s

Based on true events, renowned mountaineer UM Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber’s body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.Read More »

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Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the factory owner, Hagit hides it from her mother. The announcement of the closing of the factory shakes Hagit and Sarah’s life and jeopardizes Hagit’s love story.Read More »

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A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.Read More »

After experiencing failure in business and his marriage, Mitsutoshi Yashiro walks around looking for a place to die. He decides to stop at a red light district shop to have sex for one last time. He meets Hina who changes his life.Read More »

A Native American family struggles with violence and alcohol, when news reaches the Reservation that one of them has died during military service in Afghanistan.Read More »

It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between?

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.Read More »

The Missing Picture (French: L’image manquante) is a 2013 Cambodian-French documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the top prize. It was also screened in the World Cinema section at the 2013 Cinemanila International Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize.

The film has been selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, and was nominated.Read More »

Rangbhoomi follows the filmmaker as he attempts to trace Dadasaheb Phalke’s life in Varanasi, where Phalke withdrew, disillusioned with the world of cinema, and decided to take up theatre. During his life there, Phalke wrote a semi-autobiographical play titled Rangbhoomi, which forms the core of this film.Read More »

In the summer of 1987 in a town in Córdoba, two teenage sisters, Elena and Lucia, are alone at home. The youngest is in a cast and annoyed with pleasure by her older sister, who thinks of how to get out of that town, to study and to live in a different way, beyond the small gossip of the village club, the bar of the town, the little clubs and the pool and who squeezed with whom. There are also the boys who live and work in the field, a young doctor, but much older than Elena, a connection between Lucia and a friend of her sister, some conflicts elsewhere. Sexual awakenings, annoyances, identities, searches, encounters, urgencies.Read More »