PLOT: Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is at a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police forces, he is a first-hand witness of the murderous anti-drug campaign that his institution is implementing with dedication. The atrocities are corroding Hermes physically and spiritually, causing him a severe skin disease resulting from anxiety and guilt. As he tries to heal, a dark past haunts him and has eventually come back for a reckoning.Read More »
2020s
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Lav Diaz – Kapag wala nang mga alon AKA When the Waves Are Gone (2022)
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Héléna Klotz – La Vénus d’argent AKA Spirit of Ecstasy (2023)
2021-2030DramaFranceHéléna KlotzAbused by her gendarme father and forced to provide for her younger siblings, Jeanne Francoeur looks to make a living in the world of financeRead More »
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Claire Denis – Stars at Noon (2022)
Claire Denis2021-2030FranceRomanceThrillerIn present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.Read More »
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Nelson Yeo – Dreaming & Dying (2023)
2021-2030ArthouseDramaNelson YeoSingaporeThree middle-aged friends reunite for the first time in years. Each of them sets out to confess unexpressed feelings, but their vacation takes a surprising turn when the undercurrent of their past lives threatens to resurface.Read More »
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Lu Zhang – Bai ta zhi guang AKA The Shadowless Tower (2023)
Lu Zhang2021-2030ArthouseChinaDramaGu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover. While the seasons come and go, people get together and move apart. Only one thing will remain the same: The White Pagoda where they all meet sooner or later.Read More »
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Victoria Linares Villegas – Ramona (2023)
2021-2030DocumentaryDominican RepublicVictoria Linares VillegasFeeling unprepared for her upcoming role as a 15-year-old pregnant girl from the outskirts of Santo Domingo, an actor from a more affluent background, Camila, decides to sit down with pregnant young girls for inspiration. Yet in the process, as the sorority of 15 teens candidly recount their realities on-camera, little by little they unexpectedly influence the film’s production, taking it into unchartered territory.Read More »
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Pedro Costa – The Daughters of Fire (2023)
Pedro Costa2021-2030DocumentaryExperimentalPortugalThree young sisters are set apart by the eruption of Fogo.
But they sing.
One day we’ll know why we live and why we suffer…Cannes Film FestivalRead More »
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Tatsuya Mori – Fukudamura Jiken AKA September 1923 (2023)
Tatsuya Mori2021-2030DramaJapanThrillerQuote:
Jacques Chauvry, the new government delegate for a French protectorate in Cambodia, meets the young Soun who, due to a series of circumstances, will become heir to land that houses a large oil field. Tao , an evil mestizo, along with his minions, tries to get hold of these lands, terrorizing the locals by appearing disguised as the “spirit of evil”.Read More » -
Maria Ignatenko – Gorod usnul AKA In Deep Sleep (2020)
2011-2020DramaMaria IgnatenkoRussiaWhen Victor’s wife dies and his world falls into a deep slumber, he sets out to wander the empty streets on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Victor endures an overwhelming experience that leads him to insanity and murder but through which he ultimately makes peace with himself.Read More »