Like a Song Without Rhyme

Chateaubriand's Last Love

March 2008 •French

One stormy evening in 1829, the aging writer René de Chateaubriand, takes refuge in a mountain retreat at Cauterets, a small town in the Pyrenees. Here, he meets Léontine de Villeneuve, an aristocratic woman forty years his junior, who ignites his passion and who seems to be as equally attracted to him. Under the watchful gaze of the maître d'hôtel, Chateaubriand embarks on what will be his last great love affair, with a woman he will later refer to in his writings as L'Occitanienne.

Distance

May 2016 •Chinese

Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.

Second Spring

February 2016 •Italian

While looking for new tenants for his seaside villa, surrounded by a big garden, Andrea Ricoli, a 50-years old architect, meets Rossana, a newly 40-years old, anaesthesiologist at the local hospital, and married to Riccardo, ten years younger than her: he's an aspiring writer, temporarily employed as a salesman at a local shoe store. During an eventful New Year's Eve, Andrea introduces Riccardo to a Maghreb restaurant owner - who is interested in restoring an attic apartment - and his lovely sister Hikma. Months go by. Andrea discovers that Hikma is pregnant with Riccardo's child, while she's struggling with her old-fashioned, fundamentalist brother's mentality. He offers to help the couple and let them stay with him in his villa. Teaching him how to care for his garden, the young Hikma reminds Andrea of his wife Sofia, who passed away right there four years earlier, in unclear circumstances...

The World of Us

June 2016 •Korean

A bullied girl becomes friends with a new kid during a break, but when classes start up again, their new friendship is nearly ruined when the bullying continues.

The Zone

March 2011 •English

A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about God, life and filmmaking.

Daivanamathil

June 2005 •Malayalam

After the demolition of the Babri Masjid, Anwar, a student of Aligarh Muslim University, becomes a fundamentalist and ends up in prison. His wife Sameera yearns for him be the soft and loving husband that he once was. But what happens when he is out of jail?

Gross Misconduct

July 1993 •English

Justin Thorne is a liberal arts professor. One of his college students is Jennifer Carter. She seduces Justin, then accuses him of rape. But it turns out that she has an unusual relationship with her father.

When Life Was Good

September 2008 •English

Brooklyn flies home to surprise her boyfriend on his birthday, but immediately changes her mind upon arrival and decides to hide out for the summer with her friend Faith. Faith lives with Casey and with relationship problems of their own, the couple are happy with the distraction...until Brooklyn begins to assert herself, then all of the characters come face to face with the hard realities of their relationships.

Alchimie au rhodium

March 2024 •French

Open Five 2

December 2012 •English

A relationship drama set amid a winter van trip from New York to New Orleans. A loose continuation of the 2010 film.

Your Childhood Shall Never Die

January 2013 •Swedish

A film about a group of people and their complicated relationships to one another. Vera is trying to figure out how to relate to her son's irresponsible father, while her sister is about to release a book about their shared childhood. Not far from Vera, a professional clown is hesitantly trying to get on with his life and form a new relationship, but his ex is refusing to let go of him. In close shots, full of emotions, the characters expose the best as well as the worst in them, and the film provides no simple answers to its questions.

Portnoy's Complaint

June 1972 •English

During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.

Drinking Buddies

August 2013 •English

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.

Mortal Break-up Inferno

September 2014 •French

An angry girlfriend's infernal hunt of the man who broke her heart.

Anemochory

December 2022 •English

A woman tries to stave off misgivings about her long-time boyfriend as she desperately attempts to recreate the best days of their relationship.

Pussy

January 2014 •Danish

Oliver feels that his life is at a standstill. A change is needed. To get his life going in a new direction he must do something radical, and the solution might be to break up with his girlfriend Signe. However, that turns out to be harder than he had expected.

Just a Sigh

April 2013 •French

In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.

DOS: Μια Ιστορία Αγάπης Απ' Την Ανάποδη

September 2011 •Greek

Athens & Barcelona, two cities, two love stories, two languages, two realities, two couples that will never meet, two years anniversary... or is it all one?

Sans nous

December 2023 •French

The Bathtub

February 2016 •German

The short film tells the story about three brothers who try to dive back into their childhood by re-enacting an old family picture.