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Blandine Lenoir – Aurore AKA I Got Life (2017)
Is a revolution in life possible after you hit the age of 50? Aurore, who has recently split up with her husband, is about to try it, as she quits a hardly satisfying job of a waitress and is working...
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Yasmin Ahmad – Mukhsin (2006)
Synopsis (from AvistaZ): The story takes place in Sekinchan, Sabak Bernam in 1993, revolving around the first love of a 10-year-old Orked when a 12-year-old boy, Mukhsin, comes with his elder brother...
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Ruslan Korostenskiy – The Woman Sun (2013)
WOMAN SUN tells the romantic story of two sisters who have left the hustle and bustle of the city. Somewhere beyond the noises of the city, they both seek happiness, but each one in her own way. The...
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Song Chuan – Ciao Ciao (2017)
Ciao Ciao, as arrogant as she is beautiful, grew up in remote village nestled in the heart of Southern China. She goes to Canton and transforms herself into a sexy urban woman. She returns to her...
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Márta Mészáros –Örökbefogadás AKA Adoption (1975)
Quote: The film zeroes in on two women: Kata, older and widowed, and Anna, a downtrodden young women kept in a children’s institution by her unloving parents. Her own sense of self-value strengthened...
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Alice Rohrwacher – Le meraviglie AKA The Wonders (2014)
Gelsomina’s family functions according to very particular rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, practically runs the family. Her three younger sisters obey her and work under her...
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Gregg Araki – Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)
AllMovie Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson The titular trio in Three Bewildered People in the Night is played by Darcy Marta, Mark Howell and John Lacques. Experimental filmmaker Gregg Araki follows the...
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Edmund Goulding – Dark Victory (1939)
Quote: Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Shiroi Kyotô AKA The Great White Tower AKA The Ivory Tower...
Synopsis: Zaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has already made a name for himself. His superior, however, does not approve of his attitude towards their profession, and is at odds...
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Yasujiro Ozu – Todake no kyodai AKA The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda...
Synopsis The first box-office hit for Ozu in Japan, “The Brothers And Sisters Of The Toda Family” anticipates the later masterpieces such as “Tokyo Story” and “The End Of Summer”. After the death of...
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Julien Duvivier – Golgotha (1935)
Golgotha is noteworthy because it is the very first sound-picture ever made about Jesust. On top of that, it is thoroughly well done and engrossing. It starred a cast of hundreds—perhaps the biggest...
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Elena Martín – Júlia ist (2017)
Quote: The spirit of youth and the thirst for knowledge are palpable in Júlia ist, which was written by four screenwriters – the director herself,– Pol Rebaque (also director of photography), Marta...
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Henri Verneuil – Le Clan des Siciliens aka The Sicilian Clan [+Extras] (1969)
Plot Outline : With the help of the Malanese family (a.k.a. the Sicilian Clan), a convicted crook and murderer, Roger Sartet, escapes from a police van which is transporting him to prison. When he...
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Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Vidas Secas aka Barren Lives [+Extras] (1963)
Filmed with a strong sense of compassion for the impoverished and an underlying hatred for the injustice which forces them into the lives they must live, this is one of the first works from Brazil’s...
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Aparna Sen – Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
Plot: Meenakshi, a young women from a very traditional Hindu family (Tamil Brahmins), travels by bus from a mountain town to catch a train from the plains. It’s a long journey, especially when one has...
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Reha Erdem – Korkuyorum Anne aka What’s a Human, Anyway? (2004)
Mommy, I’m scared What’s a human anyway… This is the question the film explores. Through the streets of Istanbul, echoing with seagull cries and boat whistles, through the people in their homes who,...
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Nina Menkes – Hitparkut aka Dissolution (2010)
Loosely inspired by Dostoevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, ‘DISSOLUTION’ combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which...
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Chantal Akerman – Saute ma ville AKA Blow up my town (1968)
Quote: A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment. Quote: I saw this first film by Ackerman on french...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden AKA In a Year of 13...
Quote: Part melodrama, part infernal parody of ‘Candide’, ‘In a Year of 13 Moons’ is one of Fassbinder’s most moving films, without once relinquishing his icy formal control or savage cynicism. It...
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Barbet Schroeder – La vallée aka Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Quote: During the opening credits of Barbet Schroeder’s fable La Vallée, the camera swoops over a mysterious mountain range dotted with trees. The landscape glows with an eerie greenish tinge. Most of...
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