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 »
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Ken’ichirô Nishiumi – Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta AKA A Helpless Love Song (2018)
2011-2020DramaJapanKen'ichirô NishiumiRomance -
Babak Jalali – Land (2018)
Babak Jalali2011-2020DramaUSAA 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 »
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Chad Freidrichs – The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
2011-2020Chad FreidrichsDocumentaryPoliticsIt 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 »
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Rithy Panh – L’image manquante AKA The Missing Picture (2013)
2011-2020CambodiaDocumentaryRithy PanhWarThe 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 »
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Kamal Swaroop – Rangbhoomi (2013)
Kamal Swaroop2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalIndiaRangbhoomi 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 »
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Inés María Barrionuevo – Atlántida (2014)
Inés María Barrionuevo2011-2020ArgentinaDramaIn 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 »
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Kamal Swaroop – Samudra Manthan AKA The Churning of the Ocean (2019)
2011-2020DocumentaryIndiaKamal SwaroopAt Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest congregation of religious pilgrims, a troupe of theatre actors stage a play based on the origin myth of Hinduism – the churning of the cosmic ocean. The legend tells of an epic battle between the gods and the demons for an elixir of immortality. The mela (or fair) is celebrated at the site where the elixir was believed to have fallen. Today, millions of Hindu pilgrims gather there to bathe in the holy river over a two-month period.Read More »
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Kazuya Shiraishi – Mesunekotachi AKA Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Kazuya Shiraishi2011-2020DramaJapanA story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.Read More »
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Eduardo Nunes – Sudoeste aka Southwest (2012)
Eduardo Nunes2011-2020BrazilDramaIn a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.Read More »