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Poster for Inside Lehman Brothers

2018 · ★ 6.7 (9)

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy?

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Poster for The Blood of Yingzhou District

2006 · ★ 6.4 (12)

A year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui in China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease.

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1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Justin Cook (Phill Lewis) and his sister Kerry (Allison Dean) are two African American teenagers living in a middle-class New Jersey household in the late 1980s. The Cook family is visited by their distant cousin, psychologist Mariah Johnston (Whoopi Goldberg). A contemporary of Justin and Kerry's parents, Mariah is about to receive an award for her years of community work, particularly in the area of civil rights. Having been born after the Civil Rights Movement, Justin and Kerry never experienced Jim Crow segregation, and the two fail to appreciate the stories about the era that Mariah and their parents recount at dinner.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hannah and her young daughter Louise return to Hannah's childhood home to assist her brother in caring for their ailing mother. Soon, strange encounters with the townspeople, a nightly demonic visitor, and whispers of a secret church ceremony fuel Hannah's fear that something more nefarious is at hand. She begins to suspect it all could be related to her family-owned funeral home, and a deep, dark, not so buried secret belonging to their late grandfather.

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Poster for Zavlakoma

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the summer of 22, inside the walls of Thessaloniki, I saw things and I wanted to make Fiona Apple proud. An ode to summer in the city.

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2010 · ★ 2.0 (1)

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Poster for The Seed

2024 · ★ 1.0 (1)

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Blind people are given a new app that detects smiles and vibrates, allowing them to “feel every smile”.

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Poster for Weightless

2024 · ★ 6.2 (4)

Gian, a 65-year-old ethnomusicology professor, fights the darkness caused by the sudden onset of amnesia. Flashes of the past, that blend with hazy archive footage, haunt his mind like a phantasmagoria of images. Despairing, Gian tries to end things, but he fails. In the aftermath, Miriam, the daughter he does not recognize, moves into his apartment with her son Elyas. She helps him find a diary written into his twenties that revolves around Leila, a girl with whom he discovers love in the space of one night. This emotion exacerbates Gian’s pain but pushes him to recover his memory.

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Poster for The Twankeys

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An episode lost to time.

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for A Long Alone

2023 · ★ 6.5 (1)

The record of discontinued time and place, from dying alone to discovery. One year period after a person’s solitary death is shown in time-lapse. Inside the house, there are traces of his fierce life, and the audience can guess his life by following the traces. The house stays at the time of his death. On the contrary, the exterior landscape constantly changes, giving a feeling of contrast to the house. A year later, his body is found, and the scene of his death is cleared by special cleaners.

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Poster for Terra Incognita

1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Terra incognito. This is a meeting with another Universe, with another world. Who inhabits it? What kind of winds blow on it? Or it happens that you would like to penetrate into the depths of this earth, but any of your attempts encounters landslides, landslides, rockfalls... The Earth does not allow...

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

From humble beginnings in Montreal’s scrappy St Urbain neighbourhood, Ted Allan (1916-1995) would become one of Canada’s most distinctive writing talents and raconteurs, authoring numerous books, plays and screenplays, most notably, Lies My Father Told Me. This fascinating documentary offers a detailed portrait of a unique individual, from his journey to Spain to fight the fascists to his collaboration with John Cassavetes. Featuring footage of Allan’s staged readings, his musings on his lengthy career and interviews with friends and family, including actress Gena Rowlands, writer Stanley Mann and director Ted Kotcheff.

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Poster for Svalbard

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground, terrestrial and spatial universes blend into each other starting from a coal mine up to Venus.

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Poster for Ouranki / Dream Chaser

2021 · ★ 6.0 (1)

The story unfolds in the turbulent period in the history of Japan, where two imperial courts exist. Kusunoki Masatsura, a warlord of the Southern Court, knows the court is approaching its downfall while spending his days fighting against the Northern Court along with his younger brothers: Masatoki and Masanori. Along the way Masatsura meets Ben no Naishi and the two fall in love. The full-blown cherry blossom season arrives, and with a decisive battle looming Masatsura wonders what he is fighting for. Amidst a storm of cherry blossoms, Masatsura follows the path he has chosen… "Dream Chaser" is one who chases their dreams. A passionate theme of single-minded dream chasing, wrapped up in the dreams created by Tamaki Ryou of Moon Troupe.

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Poster for Human

2014 · ★ 6.5 (2)

He is a silent man. He walks the streets, watching, looking for the right place. He finds it. In the middle of a market. He sets up a stand. But instead of selling his goods, the silent man gives them away for free. The other sellers watch. They feel provoked. The situation escalates. They lose control. But in the end... there is hope.

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Poster for Dara

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2009 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Daria's uber-religious aunt has died and, out of spite, she's put liberal, lesbian Daria in charge of the funeral.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The past must remain in the past. However, old Kasymych returns to the places of his childhood in order to relive again and again the best moments of a bygone life. But what is left of his childhood today? Is anyone waiting for him in the past?

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