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Years after her mother's disappearance, Jamie and her friends return to the lake where the woman claimed to see a terrifying creature. Soon after arriving, the keys to their car go missing, leaving the group trapped.
Satoko is a 15-year-old junior high school student. After a brief encounter with herclassmate Hayase at the ENT clinic, she begins to write a story sparked by herfeelings for him. Satoko is a 35-year-old working at a film publicity company. After being stabbed bythe wife of her married lover and hospitalized, she starts writing a story. Satoko is a 55-year-old housewife. On the last day of making lunchboxes for herthree sons, she remembers her childhood dream of becoming a writer and beginsto write.
One of four biopics, focusing on individual members of The Beatles, this one telling the story of the group from the perspective of Ringo Starr.
After her best friend Kavitha’s sudden collapse, Selvi, a home care nurse, takes on her shifts in addition to her own, determined to hold everything together. Moving from one house to another, she spends her days caring for the elderly, rarely stopping to rest. As the long hours blur the boundaries between care and exhaustion, Selvi begins to confront the weight of guilt, love, and survival.
Two teenagers encounter a rock that gives them the power to switch places with the clap of their hands. However, one of the boys struggles with bullying, relationship issues, and sexual identity as he tries to navigate the world as a young adolescent.
A Batak musical film that will bring the audience's hearts back to their hometown.
Pablo, a bit of an oddball – shy and obsessed with analysing the risks involved in any situation – has been waiting a year to attend a massive anime event. When the big day finally arrives, his troublesome brother asks him for a life-or-death favour: he has to go to ‘Las Tres Mil Viviendas’, Seville’s most dangerous neighbourhood, to retrieve a rucksack. Pablo will have to decide whether to put his life on the line to save his brother or attend the event he’s been waiting for all year.
The title 'The desire to be useless' recalls a famous Hugo Pratt's expression and contains a double meaning. On one hand, it representes the comic's claim as an art form, long considered marginal but elevated, but by Pratt was considered a language with high literary and artistic value. On the other, it expresses a life philosophy founded on freedom, on the rejection of reducing existence to fiction or to commodity, and on the possibility of the adventure and the unexpected. Containing interviews with Patrizia Zanotti, Dominique Petitfaux, Thierry Thomas e Marco Steiner, the documentary completes a cinematic research lasted twenty years, returning Hugo Pratt as one of the most important auhor of illustrated literature and an artist still capable of being received by the contemporary audience.
A love story set against the backdrop of a war.
When Gil meets Jacques, their love seems irresistible. And when she unexpectedly falls pregnant, he convinces her to start a family. However, their hasty marriage reveals that she is not as deeply rooted into the Jewish faith as he is. Jacques reassures her: "Think good and it will be good". Little by little, Gil realizes the insidious control he exerts over her life...
Rose Hobart haunts the cinema.
A working man must confront his secret shame as his online activity unravels into his personal life- following an intimate encounter with an anonymous internet user.
Lionel agrees to travel with his estranged father to visit his sister in France, a simple road trip becomes a turbulent reckoning amid unknown roads and unspoken memories.
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Haroun is an old bachelor who has lived in Oran for several years. A retired civil servant, he leads a reclusive life until the day he meets Kamel in a bar—a journalist to whom he tells an incredible story dating back to 1942. He claims to be the brother of ‘the Arab’ killed in a story told in one of the most famous novels of the 20th century, ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus. An Arab with an erased name: Moussa. Through anger, assertions, details, and confidences, Haroun finally convinces the journalist to listen to his story. His confession is a cry of freedom and distress—but above all, a cry of revolt: against an abusive mother, against a country that failed to achieve true independence, against a book, and against a famous French writer.
1797, and flashbacks of a story before it. How far can a lie go until time converges with time? How deep can truth be clouded in delirium, in sorrow, in gold? I tell ya, the details are important; pay attention to the timestamps.
A daughter unravels her father's dark past after his body, missing for 36 years, is found at a horrific crime scene.
In 1944, after years of longing, the Golian family finally welcomes a child-just weeks before the beginning of Slovak National Uprising led by Ján Golian. In Nazi-allied Slovakia, they must choose-fight for the nation or protect their son.
