Sasha crosses Marseille from her building on the city's heights to the port. On her way, she encounters men's insistent glances. The city is beautiful, lively, sunny, concrete. Sasha's walk is a tangle of glances, strained silences, and city gusts. Arriving at the Mucem pier, she waits for someone who doesn't come.
Two young men travel the city of Santiago during a working day in order to carry out a bureaucratic process. In their journey, they run into different urban characters as they talk about time and other "important" issues.
The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.
Lins came from the interior of Bahia and now faces difficulties reconnecting with his origins.
Miranda, the Manchester Acatitla forward, returns home after a victorious match. On her way back, she faces dangers off the court.
The limit of tension in a family reaches its peak when the father discovers a spiders nest.
Two friends explore the meaning of anxiety.
The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver who helps him confront his past.
Love can seem beautiful, enviable and mutual always. But sometimes it seems so cold, painful and delusional to some couples. This is exactly what this couple show us; they face fights, and relationship problems. They show us how loving can hurt.
Song Fei's time in the Yan household. Just like flowers, our life is timed. We grow in order to wilt.
An artist is so consumed with painting a portrait of the women he loves that he doesn't notice she is dying until it's too late. Shot as a silent film.
When a young girl comes out to her biased psychiatrist in 1983, he calls her parents for an intervention to cure her.
A fleeting instant in filial relations shows us the way in which we transmit to our children and others the meaning we attribute to life.