The first film directed by actress Kinuyo Tanaka, the second woman to make a career behind the camera in Japan. A post-war romantic film in which Reikichi Mayumi, a poet that experienced World War II, begins working as a writer of love letters for other people. Newly restored 4K copy screening for the first time.
A tender film in which Liliana and Giovanni are engaged and, at the moment when everything should fall into place, fate intervenes. He accepts a job far from Milan, in Sicily, to try to make a better life for the two of them. But separation erodes the relationship.
The colonial war separates António, a doctor integrated in the Portuguese army in eastern Angola, from his wife. The thread that unites them are the letters he writes to her, as he sees the horror of war and falls in love with the African continent.
This documentary, based on the book of the same name by Lizzy Goodman, brings to the cinema the rebirth of rock’n’roll in the first decade of the 2000s, after 9/11, with the explosion of bands such as The Strokes, LCD SoundSystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio or Interpol. These bands and the alchemy of music they made in those years transformed New York and influenced a generation globally. For those who remember Napster, Vice and hipsters.
A guard’s duty is to keep his post. Not abandoning it is his duty, his honor, his pride. Come rain or shine. Until a natural disaster interferes with this priority
It may be bedtime, but that doesn’t mean everyone is ready for it. While the adult bears entertain themselves with honey and berries, the little bears do all sorts of mischief within the clouds.
A mosaic composed by the windows of a building, allowing a look at the lives of those who inhabit it and their everyday moments, in a polychromatic symphony.
How to re-imagine a tragedy from the first decade of the 2000s? That’s the spark that illuminates this film. Ten years after the apparent suicide of a teenager, the history of this loss is rethought, still affecting the present, with the promise of what this girl’s future could have been. In a story that triangulates Haiti, Canada and the United States, Tessa returns to the world through the power of cinema.
When you’re a student and you live far from your parents, friends are family. Friends study together, eat together, share everything and have no secrets, almost believing it will always be that way. But life has other plans, and the University of Bangui, in the Central African Republic, is just a synecdoche for a weary country.
Three girls from Vienna try to balance a fine line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. Two of them are fascinated by something that is foreign to them. One is torn between the culture practiced at home and the one practiced in the rest of her world. Adding to this explosive mix a viral video and an encounter with two overly patriotic young men, things cannot but start to go sideways. But isn’t youth the time to test the limits?
It could be the beginning of a horror movie. A couple, Alain and Marie, begin the film by explaining that they cannot explain what is happening to them. Everyone will think they’re crazy. That’s how a horror movie starts, right? The crux of the matter may lie in the enigmatic tunnel that exists in the cellar of their new home. But maybe it’s not a horror movie. It’s hard to explain.
Director Alain Gomis delves into the archives to show us a visit by Thelonious Monk, the American jazz composer and pianist known for his style of improvisation, to Paris in 1969. The starting point is a raw interview that Monk gives to French television and the clash with the stereotypes he encounters. The result is a candid, improvised mosaic portrait of the jazz master.
Jack is about to meet the love of his life, here starring Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids, Bad Neighbours). Everything seems to be going well when it ends well… and we’ll leave it at that.
An animation that expresses, through organic lines and a remarkable visual expressiveness, an aggression and a frustration that break the limits of the physical.
A film that starts by quoting something that every parent, in the history of the world, will have said or thought: it’s all fun and games, until someone loses an eye.
There’s no room for subtle metaphors when you can be so blissfully direct. A tribute film to other classics, including John Carpenter’s They Live, about misogyny and gender dynamics. It all starts when Venla discovers a pair of glasses with very special characteristics.
After bringing us Bobby Pinwheel last year, Robert Kleinschmidt is back with his eccentric stop motion adventures. This animated festival deals with topics such as isolation, alcoholism and rotting teeth. Classic Kleinschmidt.
An attempted robbery and a misunderstanding. After a quiet night, Marion wasn’t expecting her shift to end like this.