The story of a woman from Apulia, Rosaria, who works in Milan and returns to her village each Saturday to see her illegitimate little boy, who is in a charitable institution.
One of actor-turned-director Hah Myung-joong’s finest works, Scorching Sun realistically represents the history of pain and persecution suffered by Koreans during the Japanese colonial period.
Four thieves ordered by their gang to rob a jewellery store lay low in an abandoned building in the suburbs, but a young couple plotting to snatch their loot turns their hideout into a battleground…
Hooking up with women holds different pleasures for one man.
Four high school girls, Mi-hee, Sook-hee, Hae-ok and Choon-ja, create a band called The Scorpions in response to the grade-oriented, highly oppressive educational environment they live in. They meet up with a college heavy metal band called The Asphalts.
Labarthe filmed Martin Scorsese soon after the “scandal” of The Last Temptation of Christ had begun to die down. Not sure which approach to use for the film, Labarthe and his crew simply went to Scorsese’s office and began shooting him moving around, watching rushes, etc…
Labarthe revisits the Scorsese (whom he previously documented in The Scorsese Machine) to discuss several sequences from Taxi Driver.
100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria. The cities of the Strait. 100,000 dead. The filmmakers recount the pain and emigration caused by the atrocity.
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious man who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who encourages him to kill their boss and take control of the restaurant…
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole – only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him.
A priest tries to fight the temptations of love, but ends up becoming a villain that terrorizes a city. An homage to silent film, this is also a new visit to a film that Conrad Wilhelm Meyersick, a German engineer and filmmaker, made while visiting Guimarães, in 1920.
Everyday life in a town of tents.
This frenetic Japanese import from director Sang-Il Lee (Hula Girls) centers on a strange trio and their shared experience on a bus taken over by a terrorist.
Documents the last trip of the Hari Funafuti (formerly the Bulk Promotor and Hupohai, which means “Amber Ocean”), a cargo ship on its way to be scrapped.
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims.
Whilst Mille waits for her boyfriend Kenny to change his ways in terms of friends, beer and dope, she meets hip-hopper Sami. Mille falls for this sensitive young man who has a goal in life. But her feelings and loyalty to Kenny are deep and she finds herself torn between two lovers.
Teapots and chickens come alive.
A short experimental animation by Sebastian Cosor, inspired by Edvard Munch’s famous painting.
