Marcelo is a father on the run from a mysterious past. Arriving in Recife during Carnival, Marcelo is swept into a dizzying world of colour, noise, and unforgettable characters. As the city’s sights and sounds intensify, Marcelo’s true place within Recife’s intricate web of secrets begins to emerge.Read More »
In 16th-century England, Agnes, deeply attuned to the natural world, and Will defy expectations to build a life together. When the loss of their child shatters the family, sorrow strains their bond, as Will retreats into his work, transforming mourning into the tragedy Hamlet.Read More »
When eight sailors onboard their fishing trawler find a mysterious girl mid-sea, ill fortune falls upon the boat as they don’t catch any fish the next few days. The fishermen try to make it back home, although the sea has other plans for them.Read More »
Jeff, 17, is secretly in love with Alyosha. They both admire the mysterious Blake, an old friend of the girl’s father, who invites them to spend a few days at his hunting lodge in the heart of Canada’s far north. There, in the wilderness, the two teenagers come face to face with a world of childish adults, ready to burst into flames. After Genèse, Philippe Lesage continues his romantic evocation of teenage torments and emotions by confronting them with the cruel and vain world of adults, played by Arieh Worthalter in a new role worthy of him after his César award for Le Procès Goldman.Read More »
A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.Read More »
There is a theory that man is born with half a per mille too little. That alcohol in the blood opens the mind to the outside world, problems seem smaller and creativity increases. We know it well; after the first glass of wine, the conversation lifts, the possibilities open up. Martin is a high school teacher. He feels old and tired. His students and their parents want him terminated to increase their average. Encouraged by the per mille theory, Martin and his three colleagues throw themselves into an experiment to maintain a constant alcohol impact in everyday life. If Churchill won World War II in a dense fog of spirits, what could the strong drops do for them and their students? The result is positive in the beginning. Martin’s class is in a different way now, and the project is being promoted to a real academic study with the collection of results. Slowly, but surely, the alcohol makes the four friends and their surroundings loosen up. The results are rising, and they really begin…Read More »
After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a boy grew up obsessed with all the movies he couldn’t see. He met a mysterious film collector who saved thousands of films from destruction by the new regime. Despite arrest and torture, the collector refused to give up his secret hoard. Together they forged a friendship based on passion for cinema and resistance against tyranny. The boy escaped to exile in London to become a filmmaker, and tells their shared story of obsession and celluloid dreams.Read More »
An intimate look at the life of astronauts aboard the International Space Station and the future of space exploration.Read More »
“Sensual Performances, excellent acting and the great Arabic music only add to the film’s garden of earthly delights.”
– Flaunt Magazine
A widowed Tunisian seamstress takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in writer- director Raja Amari’s sumptuous and sensual Satin Rouge. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, young widow Lilia becomes drawn to an exotic nightclub netherworld of Rubénesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure- seekers. She strikes up a friendship with one of the dancers, then eventually takes the stage herself-quickly becoming the favorite of both cabaret patrons and the club’s hot-blooded drummer. As she gradually sheds her shapeless, matronly housedresses for the flamboyantly sequined bar-girl garb, she also begins to emerge from her cocoon of melancholy and loneliness.Read More »