Nightfall
The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with six suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending…
Blackboards
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with…
Lourdes
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when…
Gossip
Ten actresses test films for the title role of a remake of “Queen Christina”.
Shadow Magic
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who’s brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers’ shorts to open the Shadow Magic…
For All Time
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
Yoyes
Gaja Gamini
A mysterious and beautiful woman, in her various incarnations, inspires artists throughout the ages.
Deadlocked
A young man is accused of rape and murder and placed on trial. His father doesn’t believe that he is guilty, so in act of desperation he grabs the bailiff’s…
Enlightenment Guaranteed
Two middle aged German brothers – one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical – travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or…
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of…
The Sleeper
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she…
A House Divided
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton…
Death of a Salesman
An aging salesman is fired from his job after a long career in it. Broken, without much to look forward to, he tries reconnecting with his wife and kids who…
Daydream Believers: The Monkees’ Story
The story of the 60s pop group The Monkees, as they rise above their status as a band created for a TV show, to establishing their legacy in their own…
Happy Times
Zhao is an old laid-off worker who’s dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pairs off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a…
Everything’s Jake
A homeless man takes a newly homeless man under his wing and teaches him how to survive on the streets.
Up at the Villa
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent…
I Come
Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved…
Verbotenes Verlangen – Ich liebe meinen Schüler
Before the Storm
The Guys from Paradise
Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salary man Kohei Hayakawa is sent to Paradise prison…
Eisenstein
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
Sample People
The City of Lost Souls
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she’s about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo’s booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from…
The King Is Alive
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens,…
Swedish Beauty
Cora Unashamed
One True Love
A firefighter falls in love with a woman after he rescues her from a car crash.
One Kill
A divorced female marine officer with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer.
Fiza
In 1993 Fiza’s brother disappears during the riots in Mumbai. In 1999 Fiza is tired of waiting and goes looking for him.
The Linda McCartney Story
In a dramatization of her life, Linda Eastman, takes a job snapping pictures for Rolling Stone Magazine, despite the objections of her straight-laced father, Lee Eastman. As Linda rubs elbows…
Secrets of Palace coup d’etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №1. Testament Emperor
Russia, January 25, 1725. “Give it all…”. The emperor’s weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody…
High Noon
High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous career and settle down…