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Jennifer Montgomery – Art for Teachers of Children (1995)
Synopsis: Jennifer, an intelligent but insecure 14-year-old student at a boarding school, seduces her married dormitory counselor, a photographer who has offered to teach her about his art and winds...
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Juho Kuosmanen – Hymyilevä mies AKA The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki...
Quote: The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title. Immensely talented and equally modest, Olli’s small town life is transformed when he...
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Jeff Nichols – Loving (2016)
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme...
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Reza Dormishian – Lantouri (2016)
Quote: A Girl is attacked by her lover with Acids. Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern...
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Hirokazu Koreeda – Umi yori mo mada fukaku AKA After the Storm (2016)
A prize-winning author that wastes his money on gambling struggles to take back control of his existence as his aging mother and ex-wife move on with their lives, until a stormy summer night offers...
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Raoul Ruiz – Mistérios de Lisboa AKA Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
Raúl Ruiz is one of the great cinematic self-perpetuators, like Louis Feuillade and Jacques Rivette—a film like this gathers a motion and a rhythm that makes it feel like it could on and on,...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Waga koi no tabiji AKA Epitaph to My Love (1961)
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by...
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Ralf Kirsten – Käthe Kollwitz (1986)
One dramatic event marked the life of the great German artist in particular. At the beginning of the First World War she was already world famous for her etchings, lithographs, carvings and drawings....
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Simon Jaquemet – Chrieg AKA War (2014)
Quote: Masculinity turns against itself in Simon Jaquemet’s teen violence debut Home is where the hate is in At War, in which a teenager’s boot camp punishment becomes a kind of perverted camaraderie....
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Joe May – Asphalt (1929)
Synopsis wrote: One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty...
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – The Quiet American (1958)
Plot: In this adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit...
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Carlos Saura – Goya en Burdeos AKA Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
Plot: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He’s living with his much...
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Veit Helmer – Tuvalu (1999)
Silent movies require a unique visual storytelling grammar, a rhythm of clear, economical medium shots, punctuated by close-ups of pertinent objects and human faces reacting. Veit Helmer’s debut...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky – Poesía sin fin AKA Endless Poetry (2016)
Quote: Through Alejandro Jodorowsky’s autobiographical lens, Endless Poetry narrates the years of the Chilean artist’s youth during which he liberated himself from all of his former limitations, from...
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Esen Isik – Köpek AKA Koepek (2015)
Quote: Esen Isik, who already won the prestigious “Quartz” in 2012 for Du&Ich, presented her debut feature film, Köpek, a glimpse at an Istanbul held prisoner by its own contradictions, at this...
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Béla Tarr – A Torinói ló AKA The Turin Horse (2011) (HD)
SYNOPSIS: 1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while travelling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse’s neck to protect it then collapsed to...
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Senem Tüzen – Ana Yurdu (2015)
Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited...
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Zeki Demirkubuz – Kor AKA Ember (2016)
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery. She takes a job as a needle worker at a garment workshop where she comes across Ziya,...
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Ken Loach – I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Quote: Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the latest from legendary director Ken Loach is a gripping, human tale about the impact one man can make. Gruff but goodhearted,...
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Lav Diaz – Elehiya sa dumalaw mula sa himagsikan AKA Elegy to the Visitor...
Like Prologue to the Great Desparecido, Elegy finds Diaz looking back to the Filipino Revolution of the last years of the 19th century. Here, he imagines a woman from that era visiting the Philippines...
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