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Around Lake Como, a voyage interrupted by a series of brief, successive stops, as fleeting as musical phrases. Someone enters and leaves a telephone booth. Water and the lines that contain it.
Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.
In conversation over dirty clothes, Paul and Ed air out their true feelings for one another.
1819. A young Spanish heir, a Chinese weaver, and a Haitian deserter struggle to find their place and humanity in the tense cultural crossroads of the colonial Caribbean. They embark on the ambitious endeavor of establishing a silk factory in the very heart of the island of Hispaniola.
Every Sunday morning, Pančevo turns into the focal point of a decades-long tradition shared by thousands of people—the weekly visit to the flea market.
Sivayya, an executioner, sees a girl resembling his late daughter. She rebuffs his stares. They're both subjected to assault. Enraged, Sivayya turns vigilante, accompanied by his son, seeking justice beyond his official role.
Feeling isolated, lonely, and bored, new mother Lydia struggles to grasp what's real and what's her imagination.
A documentary about EVAN’s debut.
Siblings Lela and Vid have an enduring relationship, despite the toxic enviroment created by their parents. However, on New Years Eve of the year 2000, their bond will be broken once and for all.
Police investigate Dream Harvester, a political faction opposing the digitization of consciousness.
Ouroboros delicately captures Highgate Cemetery’s gothic architecture, ivy-draped tombs, and nature-reclaimed landscapes, drawing on staff perspectives to reconsider ideas of death, remembrance and everyday work there.
A random Wednesday. A routine office Zoom call. A life forced to start over.
A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War having been held in a prisoner of war camp. He finds that the local landowner has stolen his sheep and his girlfriend. When he also assaults and murders his sister, the shepherd takes revenge.
One day, Mom splits into two. They look identical — it’s impossible to tell which one is real. When her son starts saying strange things, she grows anxious and irritated. “Then get rid of one,” she tells him. But which one should he choose? Why did she divide in two? Who’s really broken — the mother, or the son?
Four crooks aim to score big time with a home invasion, but complications soon set in.
A retrospective of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, Canada and the United States, exploring the drama, emotion and unforgettable moments of a tournament of superlatives through the people who experienced it.
During a tense encounter in a bar bathroom, Bash gets trapped in a time loop with his ex-best friend—and his only hope of escape is to confront what tore them apart.
Uehara Jiro, in the sixth year at elementary school, is from a family of five; his parents who are both ex-extremists, his elder sister and a younger sister. Children look coldly at their father, Ichiro (Toyokawa Etsushi), who does not work but is quick at lashing out for anything illogical. One day, Jiro snaps at a junior high school student in the neighborhood who ridiculed his parents and causes a violent incident. Being tired of all the fuss made by the school and the response from the child welfare, the Uehara family moves to the island of Iriomotejima, father's hometown. However, the island is in the midst of a row over a development plan to build resort facilities, and the family is sucked into the mayhem. Ichiro and his wife Sakura are arrested, but they break loose. They are forced to live a life as fugitives, and are unable to live with their children. The children, however, understand that their parents do not want to succumb to the establishment and support them.
A wannabe kpop idol meets her famous lookalike.
