A young art teacher hopes to be transfered to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of innapropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.Read More »
Hirayama lives a life of blissful contentment, spending his days balancing his job as a caretaker of Tokyo’s public toilets with his passion for music, literature, and photography. His structured routine is slowly interrupted by unexpected encounters that force him to reconnect with his past.Read More »
One of Japan’s most famous architects rides his Alfa Romeo through Tokyo streets and comments on his home town, buildings that influenced him, and his own projects.Read More »
Summer 2019. Just graduated, Madeleine goes to Corsica to prepare for further exams with Antoine, her lover with whom she shares very left-wing political convictions. On a small deserted road, an unexpected encounter will seal their fate.Read More »
Set during a “beautiful summer” in Turin in 1938, against the backdrop of Fascist-era Italy’s subsequent entry into World War II. sees the 18-year-old Cassell as the uninhibited model Amelia. She introduces her younger friend Ginia to a world of bohemian artists where she will fall in love for the first time.Read More »
Fabien Lemercier on Cineuropa wrote:
“I feel like there’s real madness around me”. At the police station, with a beaten up face and his arm in a sling, Vincent (Karim Leklou) tries to understand the incomprehensible. In the space of two days, two of his colleagues have attacked him with brutal violence for no apparent reason and without knowing why themselves. As if that wasn’t enough, his managers are having doubts over him and ask him to work from home “for everyone’s sake”. And this is only the beginning of his troubles because he’s convinced – and this intuition is swiftly confirmed by subsequent events – that tirades of aggressiveness might be unleashed against him anyplace and anytime. Read More »
Award-winning actress and filmmaker Chloë Sevigny returns to the director’s chair bringing her own instinctual depth and glamor to the short film Lypsinka: Toxic Femininity, a singular work centering around downtown legend Lypsinka, the surrealist and iconic stage creation of John Epperson. Inhabiting the words of Hollywood icons from Judy Garland to Joan Crawford trapped in an airless world of old-fashioned TV glamor, Lypsinka guides us through her fever dream as she grapples with her psyche as a celebrity.Read More »
Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.Read More »
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 »