2020s

Jeanne Bécu, was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and being a young working-class woman, she was hungry for culture and pleasure, accordingly used her intelligence and allure to rise step by step to the highest levels of society. She became the favourite of King Louis XV who regained through her his appetite for life and fell madly in love. They went to the extreme on the verge of their love to each other and, against all propriety, etiquette and convention, Jeanne moves to Versailles where her relationship with the king scandalizes the Court. Afterwards, she, by the verdict of the Court, became his last official mistress.Read More »

A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogota, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.Read More »

A woman pushes a man. They argue. Later, in the station corridors, the two strangers awkwardly make love in a photo booth. Finally, on the surface, they say goodbye.Read More »

Dives deep into the art of storytelling by examining the defining principles and inner workings of the most popular and memorable American films of all time.Read More »

Namson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for him, without any other levels of significance.Read More »

In the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.Read More »

The Adamant is a unique psychiatric care centre, remarkable for its floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental health disorders, offering them care that orients them in time and space, helping them to recover or just keep up their spirits. The team running the centre tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can.

Nicolas Philibert’s verité-style documentary (a style he has perfected over his 50-year career) invites us to board this unique facility and meet the patients and caregivers who bring it to life every day.

Winner- Golden Bear- Berlin International Film Festival 2023Read More »

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Taking leave from their jobs at a gold mine, three workers journey to their home village on foot through the spectacular yet unforgiving wilderness of the mythical island of Hugaw. As time passes and their conversations intensify, buried histories emerge and a sense of psychosis invades the scene. As ever, Lav Diaz’s exquisitely subdued black-and-white images and patient rhythm lend a Brechtian register to the drama; almost always filmed from the same fixed distance, each scene is an immaculate tableau vivant. Behind the film’s folkloric façade, Diaz once again taps into the collective memory of defiant struggles against the tyranny of both contemporary Filipino society and colonial brutality, centred on the timeless image of men walking – one of the key traits of Pan.Read More »

Synopsis:
It is the first round of the national high school baseball tournament but we’re less concerned with what goes on in the baseball diamond, rather, it is the people in the stands who we watch. A former baseball team player named Fujino and two members of the theater group, Yasuda and Tamiya, have come to cheer the team. Miyashita, once the smartest person in the grade, has just lost her position to the captain of the brass band and is on her own. As these characters interact while watching a baseball game, their hidden thoughts also become apparent – “On The Edge of Their Seats” is based on an award-winning stage play created by a theatre group from a high school in Hyogo Prefecture. —Jason MAHER, OAFFRead More »