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Jacques Audiard – Dheepan (2015)
Quote: Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little...
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Woody Allen – Another Woman (1988)
Quote: It’s worth noting that in 1978, ten years before he made “Another Woman,” Woody Allen created another quiet film, a drama with prominent Bergmanesque influences. The film was called...
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Yves Boisset – Un condé Aka Blood On My Hands AKA The Cop (1970)
Synopsis: ‘Dassa, a bar owner who refuses to sell drugs to his customers, is killed by men working for Tavernier, a gangster known as Le Mandarin. Dassas’s sister Hélène is also in danger, for the...
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Stig Björkman – Jag är Ingrid AKA Ingrid Bergman, In Her Own Words (2015)
A documentary on Ingrid Bergman, told through entries from her own private diary, letters and home movies. In her own words. And some interviews....
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Curt McDowell – Thundercrack! (1975)
Quote: If you’re at all familiar with underground cinema, than you’ve probably heard tales about this flick for years. But actually seeing the damned thing is a different matter entirely. Crass, sick...
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Oliver Hirschbiegel – Elser AKA 13 Minutes (2015)
In November 1939, Georg Elser’s attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take...
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Yorgos Lanthimos – The Lobster (2015) (HD)
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the rules of The City, are taken to The Hotel, a restrictive regime where they are obliged to find a matching mate in forty-five days. If an...
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven – Mustang (2015)
Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Dekalog AKA The Decalogue (1989)
Dekalog was made for Polish TV as a series of ten films, each just under an hour in length, inspired by one of the Ten Commandments (the Decalogue), set in contemporary Warsaw in and around the same...
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Akira Kurosawa – Kakushi-toride no san-akunin AKA The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Quote: Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines, not realising that their companions are actually a princess and her general....
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Jocelyn Saab – Kanya Ya Ma Kan, Beyrouth AKA Once Upon a Time in Beirut (1995)
“This reflexive voyage into a celluloid Beirut becomes the key to finding out to which Beirut one is returning, and to point to the new Beirut one wishes for the future.” – Ella Shohat and Robert...
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Franco Piavoli – Poesie in 8mm AKA Poems in 8mm [+Extras] (1954-1964)
Description Poems in 8mm are the early works of Franco Piavoli, digitally restored. Independent short films, captured with a simple Paillard camera, involving no crew and no production. In this...
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Vittorio De Sica – Il tetto aka The Roof (1956)
THE ROOF, largely considered the last masterpiece of Italian Neorealist cinema, dramatizes a single night in the lives of Luisa (Gabriella Palloti) and Natale (Georgio Listuzzi), a strikingly...
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Fabrice Du Welz – Vinyan (2008)
PLOT SUMMARY Unable to accept the the loss of their son in the 2005 Tsunami, Jeanne and Paul Bellmer have remained in Phuket. Desperately clinging to the fact that his body was never recovered, Jeanne...
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Jeff Nichols – Take Shelter (2011)
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. Quote: From IMDB: I’m going to try to be restrained...
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Roberto Minervini – Louisiana AKA The Other Side (2015)
Synopsis In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being forgotten by...
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François Truffaut – Jules et Jim (1962)
Quote: Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François...
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Christophe Honoré – Métamorphoses (2014)
Quote: One of France’s most unpredictable writer-directors, Christophe Honoré (Dans Paris, Love Songs) offers an audacious, erotically upfront re-reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, enacted by a fearless...
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Justin Kurzel – Macbeth (2015)
Quote: Macbeth is the story of a fearless warrior and inspiring leader brought low by ambition and desire. A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic realities of the times and a reimagining of what...
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Mor Loushy – Censored Voices (2015)
The 1967 ‘Six-Day’ war ended with Israel’s decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking – a radiant emblem of...
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