University student Hae-Won wants to break up with Teacher Sung-Joon. They have had a secret relationship. Hae-Won meets her mother, who is going to emigrate to Canada the next day. After meeting her mother, she feels depressed and decides to meet Sung-Joon for the first time in a long while. Sung-Joon suggests they runaway to somewhere else.
Forced into early retirement due to retinal damage which left him blind, former detective Johnston Chong See Tun ekes out his living by solving cold cases for police rewards. During a bank robbery case, he meets an attractive hit team inspector Goldie Ho Ka Tung. When Ho notices Chong’s strong sense of hearing and smell, she enlists his help in a personal case and he decides to take a stab.
Áurea, a solitary teacher, starts a singular relationship with a young man with whom she has a chance encounter. A sensitive soul, she finds herself attracted to his moving beauty which compels her to lose herself. In the days following their first conversation, Áurea displays her feelings during the private classes she’s giving him. This will lead to the revelation of an unusual story from the past that will transform the present.
In a fourteenth century building, Trissakia 3 shows us the passing of time as the sunlight moves during the day and illuminates the past, directly or reflected, pointing the future.
Imagine an airspace into which a bomb has been dropped. The time between the bomb’s release and its explosion is neither the future (for the destruction has not yet happened) nor the past (which is about to be extinguished). The flight time of the bomb thus describes absolute nothingness, the zero hour, consisting of all the possibilities that in just a moment will no longer exist. Thus, this story will end before it has begun. Here, it is told in defiance: an architectural journey from Berlin to the world and back
An architect talks about the city he has built. Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. His account is an attempt to give his ideas a fixed shape. This, in a nutshell, is the story of Thing.
There is a recurrent metallic sound in Tokyo that cuts through the silence; the images in negative and slow motion are from faces (masks?) and bodies interacting: is it violence or desire?
In a fourteenth century building, Trissakia 3 shows us the passing of time as the sunlight moves during the day and illuminates the past, directly or reflected, pointing the future.
When I Stop Looking forces the gaze over those portrayed, each with a specific and disturbing facial deformity; the longer they stay on screen the more we can understand them beyond their appearance, in their expressions and affections.
Based on a real life event of director’s Catherine Breillat, Isabelle Huppert plays filmmaker Maud who after a brain haemorrhage, wakes up paralysed on one side of her body. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project she stumbles upon Vilko, a con man who swindles celebrities. He is arrogant, magnetic and mesmerising and Maud wants him for her new film. Maud is a victim of his abuse of weakness.
Coro dos Amantes is made of three songs that, in two voices, tell the same suffocating event from two different perspectives.
A co owner General Assembly seen by Luc Moullet is the opposite of the dull meetings we all have experienced.
Alentejo, South of Portugal. Dozens of amateur a capella polyphonic choirs gather regularly to sing old polyphonic songs and new lyrics about present times. This is «cante». Born in the taverns and in the fields, sung by miners and peasants, «cante» was transmitted from generation to generation. This film is a journey into present Portugal, discovering «cante» music, and the life of the performers who seem to express the deep voice of the Earth.
Director Werner Herzog describes this follow-up to his 2012 series On Death Row as “finishing an unfinished business”. While he speaks at length with four death row inmates in candid interviews about their crimes and life behind bars, Herzog opens all four episodes with a disclaimer of sorts making his own position clear: “As a German, coming from a different historical background and being a guest in the United States, I respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment.”
Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They’re perfect for each other, except that they’re both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
Helen of T is Lewis Klahr’s contemplation of aging over a piece of music by Elmer Bernstein.
Jewels is an experimental film about hypnosis, diapausing insects and a broken heart.
A gripping mix of friendship, violence and redemption erupts in the contemporary South in this adaptation of Larry Brown’s novel, celebrated at once for its grit and its deeply moving core. The film brings actor Nicolas Cage back to his indie roots in the title role as the hard-living, hot-tempered, ex-con Joe Ransom, who is just trying to dodge his instincts for trouble – until he meets a hard-luck kid, (Tye Sheridan) who awakens in him a fierce and tender-hearted protector.