Henry Carter Hull

Based on true events, this multiple award-winning film tells the unsettling story of Hermógenes, a humble illiterate farmhand who arrives in Buenos Aires in search of a job. When Don Latuada puts him in charge of one of his butcher shops he is extremely grateful. In exchange, he forces him to disguise and sell rotten meat while subjecting him, by means of pressure and extortion, to slavery. The overwhelming manipulation and escalating cruelty will...

Inspired by true events, PAST LIFE tracks the daring 1977 trans-European odyssey of two sisters – one an introverted ambitious classical music composer, and the other a combative liberal magazine editor. As they try to unravel a disturbing wartime mystery that has cast a foreboding shadow on their entire lives, they realize that freedom from the shackles of the past requires painful sacrifices, as does the struggle to discover one’s unique voice.....

In this beautiful Thai drama and official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, a young film director researches a project about the 1976 massacre of Thai student activists at Thammasat University in Bangkok.. Nominated for the Golden Leopard for Best Film at the Locarno International Film Festival.. "BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK is a magical, melancholic ode to the intellectual's struggle against the forces of history." - Clarence Tsui,...

A daring work, with references to Luis Buñuel and Federico Fellini and based on the Italian cult comic book by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti. STIGMATA follows Bruno as he struggles to understand why blood pours from his hands.. “A richly suggestive, chilly fable about a lonely, gentle giant struggling to deal with the consequences of blood literally pouring from his hands, Adan Aliaga’s audacious, haunting debut Stigmata reps a distinctive...

Selected for the prestigious Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival, DIRTY LINEN IN THE SUN is a soft-spoken, yet intense drama that shows a young woman grappling with the elements and her own personal history.. Silvana is searching her father in in southern Chile. As the hours pass, her anxiety increases as she awaits his arrival. Meanwhile, she daydreams about the encounter, and explores the impressive community and its people. With their...

Investigating common grounds as well as contradictions, filmmaker Werner Schweizer connects in his cinematic survey Franz von Werra's biography and the one of the actor Hardy Krueger.

A struggling novelist, now working as a private detective under the pretense of doing research, attempts to reconcile with his aging mother, ex-wife and 11-year-old son. As a typhoon passes, they end up spending the night together in his mother’s Tokyo apartment - but things don’t go particularly well for this fractured family.. Nominated for the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival.. "...Sad, rueful and sometimes warmly funny,...

Tsai Ming-liang emerged on the world cinema scene in 1992 with his first, groundbreaking feature, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD. His debut already includes a handful of elements familiar to fans of subsequent work: a deceptively spare style often branded “minimalist”; actor Lee Kang-sheng as the silent and sullen Hsiao-kang; copious amounts of water, whether pouring from the sky or bubbling up from a clogged drain; and enough urban anomie to ensure that...

When Sreykeo, a Phnom Penh bar-girl, meets Ben, a European seeking adventure in Cambodia, the chemistry is immediate and they fall in love. After Ben returns home to Germany, Sreykeo reveals that she is HIV-positive; Ben immediately feels he must help her. In doing so he quickly discovers a world where not everyone is dealt the same cards and where motivations are not always pure.. Starring David Kross (War Horse, The Reader) and newcomer Apinya Sakuljaroensuk,...

Vincent, a successful forty-something, is about to become a father for the first time. His sister invites him to a dinner party at her beautiful apartment in Paris, with her academic husband and his childhood friend.. Whilst waiting for Anna, his stylish younger spouse who is always running late, his cohorts gleefully bombard him with questions on his fast approaching fatherhood. But when his hosts ask Vincent what name he has chosen for his future...