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1) 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.
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.
5) 1982
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a Quaker school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
6) 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...
7) 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...
Publisher
Aspect Ratio Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.
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...
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.
12) 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...
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.
15) The Intruder
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
After receiving a heart transplant, an enigmatic loner (Michel Subor) journeys to Tahiti to reconnect with the son he fathered many years earlier.
16) 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
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – most importantly – jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance...
19) Return to Dust
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In rural Gaotai county, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma (Wu Renlin) is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao (Hai Qing), except for a small abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; and similarly, an unexpected bond between the two starts to blossom. As seasons pass their dedication to...
20) Love Life
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
日本語
Description
Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with their son. A tragic accident brings the boy's father, Park, back into her life.
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