Mann für Mann

Where the Heart Is

December 1998 •French

From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood friend, neighbor, and the mother of his future child, Clementine, who is white. The city is Marseilles as in the previous film, symbolic with its churches, prisons and ruins. Except in this film, director Robert Guediguian also ventures outside, taking the story to Sarajevo; two different cities, one devastated by war, the other by a bad economy and unemployment. A la Place du coeur won a Special Jury Prize at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival and was also shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.

Die Unbesiegbaren

March 1953 •German

The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat movement.

Die Mamais

November 1974 •German

Crush Gear Turbo The Movie: Kaiservern's Ultimate Challenge

July 2002 •Japanese

Having gained great popularity as a TV series and toys, Crush Gear Turbo here becomes a movie for the first time. The very first Gear even made in the world is stolen. The gear, named Kaiservern, beats the prize winners of the Australia convention one after another. Kouya and Manganji, which won a prize in the Asia Convention, become targets too. When the unidentied gear fighter who handles Kaiservern appears in front of Kouya and Manganji, the two boys decide to fight together to win victory over their enemy.

Happening

October 1968 •French

At a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.

Love on the Hot Sand (The Runaway)

January 1966 •Greek

Click

May 2024 •English

As Aaliyah embarks on her journey, she reconnects with her family and grapples with fading memories. With her grandmother's health uncertain, will Aaliyah fulfill her dream of becoming a great photographer like her grandfather?

Everyday Noise

Invalid date •Indonesian

Ayu, a customer service employee, had to pay her mother's rent arrears in the village but her salary was paid late. When she confronted his boss about her salary, she accidentally revealed dark facts in her workplace.

Wild Turkey

September 2003 •English

A drama about the menace and unease that lurk in small-town America and the inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity, and even good sense of the most ordinary people.

Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi

October 1953 •Arabic

A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to study religion and worship God, to his strength in the face of the hostility he faced and how he triumphed over his enemies with God on his side.

Ada and the Doc

May 2023 •English

In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged lover for the grisly murder of her husband in one of the most explosive sex-murder trials ever reported.

High Summer

June 2016 •French

A disturbing moment on a calm summer's day in the countryside: while gardening, a young man sees his mother as a woman for the first time.

Hazel

July 2012 •French

An obsessive mother, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A father, carefully blotted out from all the family photos and a dreadful child-psychiatrist with unconventional methods - This is the summary of young Hazel's life, secretly attracted to boys...

The Mate of the Alden Bessie

January 1912 •English

The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.

Love Twice

January 2016 •English

"What do you do when the spark touches down-brief and hot?" So begins award-winning director Rob Nilsson's (Permission to Touch, MVFF 2015; A Bridge to a Border, MVFF 2014) provocative meditation on the Möbius relationship of fiction to reality, and the notion of creative control. In Love Twice, Luz and Ken are star-crossed lovers in screenwriter Sal's script, until their desire takes shape, inscribing itself into a movie of their own design. Risking his sanity to save the screenplay, Sal struggles to regain control of his characters and satisfy the demands of his producer Lester (legendary Velvet Underground founder John Cale), driving a wedge between the lovers with a desperate attempt to seduce Luz.

The Mills of the Gods

November 1912 •English

A silent crime film in which the wealthy landowner Lorenzo, who has been taunting poor Miguel and his family for years, eventually gets his comeuppance.

Le Dessous des cartes

September 1948 •French

Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Florence, his wife, refuses to join him. Desperate Claude commits suicide, Florence then decides to pass her suicide off as murder in order to receive her late husband's life insurance.

Tonia

May 2023 •Polish

Tonia lives with her father and grandmother. Her mother is dead, her father is an alcohol abuser and he lost his job. His grandmother decides to send him to work on a construction site in Italy for three months. Tonia will do everything in her power to foil this plan.

Dice

May 2023 •English

After so many years of being bullied, AJ and Ruth, co-workers and one-time romantic partners plan and exact their revenge against the office bully, Mr. Abubakar, who finds out that, ultimately and way too late, there are many sides to a dice.