Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won’t bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.Read More »
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Dark secrets of a middle-class Zambian family start unraveling as an uncle is found dead on the side of the road in this outstanding drama found on many Best of Cannes lists this year.Read More »
A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him – Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love. A reverie on the edge of ambivalence and gender.Read More »
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Toribio Bardelli is an older man, who together with his three children, now adults, form a dysfunctional and failed family. About to turn 70, Toribio will pursue his only goal in life: to have an erection again.Read More »
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The awkward and often hilarious reunion between a divorced father and his precocious eight-year-old son is beautifully observed in Risi’s tender comedy.
Walter Chiari, a good-for-nothing who dreams of building an empire selling Encyclopedia Brittanicas, embellishes his life to impress his son (effortlessly played by child actor Roberto Cicciolini), only to discover that the boy, whom he hasn’t seen in years, harbors his own share of restless loneliness.Read More »
Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel… a clever child with sparkly eyes and an indomitable will. As his parents frequently work away from Beijing, they decide to take Qiang to board at a well-appointed residential nursery school.
Life at the kindergarten appears rich and colourful, made up of a variety of cheerfully sunny rituals and games meant to train these children to be good members of society. But it’s not so easy for Qiang to adapt to this kind of carefully organised, minutely scrutinised collective life.A fierce individualist in miniature, he tries but fails to conform to the model his teachers enforce. Yet he still craves the reward that the other students win: the little red flowers awarded each day as tokens for good behaviour.Read More »
A group of travellers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station which, according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted for the last 20 years.Read More »
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In a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.Read More »
A period of driving school life, twists and turns, but one by one, the dark war between the five people are also with the smooth clearance of the exam and the end. This experience of driving school involved five people’s joys and sorrows, in addition to learning the rules of driving, it seems to learn the rules of survival.Read More »