Laurence Anyways

Die Anruferin

March 2008 •German

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Running with Scissors

October 2006 •English

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

The Source of a River, a Night Stream

March 2023 •

A woman slowly fades into darkness waiting to see her son one last time.

School Wars: Hero

September 2004 •Japanese

Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who turned-around a failing high school in Kyoto, giving special attention to the rugby team, which included the most disruptive students among its members.

Die Beautiful

December 2016 •Tagalog

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.

In Between Seasons

February 2018 •Korean

When her son gets critically injured in a car accident, a mother discovers that there's more to his relationship with his friend than she had thought.

Die singenden Engel von Tirol

September 1958 •German

Fathers and Daughters

October 2015 •English

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Supernatural

January 2014 •Thai

Science fiction about a future Thailand. Futuristic, experimental, homo-erotic and with elements of a political essay. With a richness of themes and impressions that wouldn’t get past the censor in Thailand. The maker doesn’t mince his words and isn’t afraid to look reality in the eye.

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

September 1995 •English

Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.

Buffalo Soldiers

October 2002 •English

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

The Wedding Banquet

March 1993 •Chinese

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

Troublemakers

November 1994 •Italian

Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

May 2018 •English

After his best friend disappears following a violent argument, a troubled marine must wrestle with his identity and guilty conscience.

Family Outing

February 2001 •English

A young man is surprised by what he discovers in his first trip to the baths.

Mädchen in Uniform

November 1931 •German

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.

Infamous

October 2006 •English

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

North Country

February 2005 •English

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

My Summer of Love

May 2005 •English

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.

Un polo de limón

May 2024 •Spanish

Cris is a film student going through a creative crisis. Her professor rejects her latest script because it is empty, conveys no emotion, and advises her that whatever it is that is blocking her, she should put an end to it and fix it, so that she can turn in the script again the following week.