1990s

Synopsis:
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.Read More »

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Three friends begin a contest to find Karen, a particular girl they all like. The limits: one month, and no advertising or radio. The prize: the losers withdraw and the winner gets free reign to woo her.Read More »

To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.Read More »

1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.Read More »

A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her brain. A boy inherits his mother’s depression.
Short of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide.Read More »

Synopsis(borrowed from Sixpackfilm)
Resistance to the political change which took place in Austria in the year 2000, even when coming from members of the alleged opposition, is repeatedly dismissed as a hysterical reaction. The claim is made that this was a “normal democratic change.”
This characterization obscures the fact that the protest was directed primarily at a party whose populist program is intended to mobilize authoritarian and misanthropic prejudices. Furthermore, these protests were and are intended to stop the “integration of popular racism” (Steyerl) into the social and political mainstream, which is also on the rise in countries other than Austria.Read More »

Unstable man spends the summer in an empty mansion, where he meets punks, serial killers and witches.Read More »

Director (Luc Delahaye) with his casting assistant (Sylvie Peyre) are in search of a new face – an actress for the head role in his next movie. A series of interviews with young actresses and ordinary french woman, seen on Gare Saint-Lazire, follows.Read More »

A love story between two emotionally damaged outsiders, played by Alexis Loret and Juliette Binoche, which marked Techine’s return to the haunting and intense territory of Les Roseaux Savages. Highly praised for its effective use of an unorthodox narrative structure, it tells the story of Martin, who runs away from his rural French home under mysterious circumstances and ends up at his half-brother’s flat in Paris, where he meets and falls in love with the his roommate Alice. When Alice informs him that she is pregnant, he has a sudden flashback of what happened to make him flee his father’s house…Read More »