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1) Illusions
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
Nikolai Gostiukhin’s reimagining of Ivan Vyrypaev’s ILLUSIONS is presented as a teleplay, with Vyrypaev’s series of separate monologues transformed into a couples therapy session, allowing the protagonists to talk about the anxieties and worries they have accumulated during their marriage through the metaphorical account of the lives of two elderly married couples. This conceit adds a new dimension to Vyrypaev's masterful text, with the viewer...
2) A Couple
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A COUPLE is a film about a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia. They were married for 36 years, had 13 children, nine of whom survived. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Icelandic
Description
Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound...
4) Non-Fiction
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
Alain is in his 40s and runs a famous publishing house which publishes novels by his friend Léonard, a bohemian writer. Alain's wife, Selena, is the star of a popular TV series and Léonard's companion, Valérie, is the devoted assistant of a political figure. Although they are longtime friends, Alain is about to turn down Léonard's new manuscript, complicating the relationship between the two couples.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
After years of living abroad in America, former actress Sangok is back in Seoul, staying with her sister. Over the course of a day, it becomes clear that there are many things she’s not revealing, and this may be to do with her decision to meet with a film director to discuss her return to acting.
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemakers institute. Her certainties are shaken when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May ’68? What if the good wife finally became a free woman?
7) Chile '76
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, CHILE ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads a sheltered upper middle class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children,...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ghosted by her hunky twenty something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and divorced single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar "Clara" is friended by her ex's equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrolled obsession.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lisa is moving out of her flatshare with Mara and Markus, and her move now means the end of an era. As boxes are shifted, walls painted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up. While Lisa is looking forward to the change, for Mara it triggers a rollercoaster of emotions.
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
日本語
Description
An extended farming family faces the cultural tradition of abandoning their aged mother on a mountain as she reaches her seventieth year. Imamura's documentary-style filmmaking delves into the complex dynamics of Japanese society and its timeless traditions.
13) Grand Jeté
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
**Warning:** This film contains sexual content that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Nadja (Sarah Nevada Grether) is an aspiring ballerina with the scars to prove it. A masochistic pursuit at her dream career has left her body battered, a map of the tumultuous torture dancers withstand on a daily basis. Working now as a dancing instructor for children, rather than as the dancer she always wanted to be, she decides to visit the adult...
14) Godland
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Danish
Description
The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the perilous trek to Iceland’s southeastern coast with the intention of establishing a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Adapting the award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, directors Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray through observant detail and stunning landscape photography the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children when Pietro’s Milan family vacations in an isolated village at the base of the Alpine slopes. As they mature, Pietro becomes estranged from his business-minded father even as Bruno takes...
16) Walk Up
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Korean
Description
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung) already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor and an artist’s studio at the...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From award-winning director Anca Damian comes the poetic and life-affirming story of Marona, an optimistic stray dog who looks back on the human companions she has loved throughout her life. Born the last in the litter, little Marona’s adventures take her through a series of names and owners – a colorful acrobat, a sensitive construction worker, and a little girl – with dazzling style, pushing animation in bold new directions. But through all...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Taipei, a movie theater is closing, but not before one final film is shown -- "Dragon Inn," a 1967 actioner and the source of nostalgia for the moviegoers and employees in the old, decrepit and possibly haunted building. The workers include eccentric projectionist Hsiao-Kang and a crippled cashier. The patrons include a Japanese tourist and two ghostly actors from the original film who have come to mourn the passing of an era.
19) Rise
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
An uplifting story of resilience set in the dance world, RISE tells the story of a young ballet dancer whose life is upended when she suffers a career threatening injury and catches her boyfriend cheating on her. As she begins her physical and emotional rehabilitation, she finds solace in friends, a new love, and a new contemporary dance troupe.
20) Sisters
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria...
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