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The Pressure is on for Tracy, as she’s got the hardest job on set; Dealing with an Explosive Director.
When fear becomes peace and choice becomes myth, one recording tries to remember what humanity used to be.
At the 48th edition of the Laceno d'Oro Festival in 2023, Paul Schrader is the guest of honour in Avellino, receiving a lifetime achievement award and taking part in this conversation with Sergio Sozzo and Aldo Spiniello, pillars of Sentieri Selvaggi and curators of the festival.
While sorting through the belongings of her recently deceased husband, Helena sees her past rise to the surface when her daughter finds letters that were never sent.
A travel vlogger can't quite put into words just how bad her hotel room is.
The life of the couple Leonardo and Andréia is told by filmmaker Elias Meraki. Amidst inspired commentary and charismatic characters, such as the charming florist Marieta, "O Dilema das Rosas" invites us to reflect on the shrewdness of life and love.
When an anxious, young arcade cleaner feels oddly allured by a broken claw machine, the lines of reality begin to blur.
The year is 1997 and the graduating class of Smitty Crest High School is celebrating with a game of seven minutes in heaven. After being paired together, teens Ryan and Ian begin to question each other’s intentions in the closet. Once they both come to the realization that neither wants to kiss the other, they use humour and 90’s nostalgia to get to the bottom of each other’s sexualities.
When eccentric detective Deck Tective gets a call about a burglary, he becomes part of a plot by the dastardly burglar to frame someone else for burgling.
Eighty years after World War II, memory clings like frost to glass-blurred, fractured, yet never fully fading. Filmmaker Ming Chun retraces the forgotten journey of Taiwanese soldiers conscripted by Japan, captured by the Soviets, and exiled to Siberia. From departure and defeat to captivity and return, he follows a path of war and displacement-toward a home that no longer felt like home. Across Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, he searches for traces of their lives-abandoned camps, fading photographs, fragments of memory-while opening a dialogue across three generations: elders whose recollections falter, children burdened with unanswered questions, grandchildren confronting fractured identities. When history falls silent, what do we hear? And where do restless souls finally belong?
Depicted in the film is a conversation between a young man who lost his estranged father and a peculiar figure from his past.
A young man struggles with self confidence as he meets his girlfriend for her birthday.
A poetry film that tells the story of a man struggling with his deteriorating mental state and self-destruction.
A Meeting of Fools is a surreal Christmas movie that toes the line between inane and brilliant. Jack Woodford stars as Christmas Guy, a grumpy tv addicted, loner, who small world is turned upside down when he leaves his house for the first time and his feelings about Christmas and friendship are changed forever. A Meeting of Fools is the first Christmas movie to be released into the public domain immediately upon release.
A performance artist turned mayor sparks a war among ice-cream shops after the passing of a controversial bill.
Best friends Bob and Fred need to scrape together $20 in order to buy flowers and impress their dates.
In a small room, the filmmaker, the actor, and the camera gather to begin their film. But before the first shot is taken, they find themselves entangled in a subjective battle—confronting each other, and themselves.
