Beyond weird even by Japanese standards, according to Variety. The Suffering of Ninko is a wild fever dream that combines several cinematic and artistic traditions, from animation to ukiyo-e, into a jaw-dropping cinematic outburst that must be seen to be believed. Ninko is a devout and unusually handsome young Buddhist monk in Edo-period Japan—with a…
In a perfect world, Lily would have grown up with a loving father, a caring mother, a sane sister and a brother who wasn’t madly in love with her. Instead, Lily finds herself in the living room, staring at four dead bodies. Gone to confess to her therapist, she’s met with her therapist’s insensitive teenage…
When Anna arrives at Jane’s house for a date, she finds a quick high and kinky sex. But their sexual chemistry can’t quite overcome the class and race differences between them, and the encounter leaves Anna wanting more.
Starring Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer, Femme Fatales founder Leah Meyerhoff crafts this fairy tale of teenage love gone awry. Davina (Dyer) is swept into a whirlwind of romance and adventure, but the enchantment of her new relationship quickly fades when Sterling’s volatile side begins to emerge.
Heartfelt moments of humanity and survival are woven within the rich fabric that is director Chris Gude’s feature film debut. Smalltime leaders in this downtrodden universe of cocaine dealers and users in Medellin, Colombia dance to salsa, simply living, talking and wiling away the time in broken down streets and apartments, but the magic of…
Packed with small gestures, Mouton (Sheep) is a highly original debut by the two directors Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo. Young Aurélien works in the kitchen of the local fish restaurant in the little town of Courseulles-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast. We get to know him as a cheerful seventeen-year-old with a simple life, loved…
Winner of the IFFR Found Footage Award and an Official Selection at the New York Film Festival, My Mexican Bretzel opens with black-and-white clips of pilots during World War II in Switzerland, subtitled with excerpts from – so we are told – the diary of Vivian Barrett. She talks about herself and her husband who…
Economist Bernard Maris, a.k.a. “Oncle Bernard”, was killed during the Charlie Hebdo shooting, on January 7, 2015. This fascinating interview with him was filmed in March 2000 as part of the documentary Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy. Frank and unvarnished, this is a true “counter lesson in economics” in which the director gives centre stage…
Somewhere in the Central Brazilian savannah the town of Paulistas is scraping by. The rural region has lost its youth, the houses are cracked, but it has preserved its dignity. Meadow, river, sparsely furnished interiors – like the landscape and the environments the sounds and images of this film expand gently, but with impressive power….
Adapted from the tale of adventures of Portuguese sailors heading east to India, China, Japan and so on that beats its name, Pilgrimage has always been a controversial work, accused of historical inaccuracy and initially slammed by the Catholic Church. Botelho is well aware of the book’s ambiguous identity and decides to embrace it, thus…