Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory

Boys

January 2014 •Dutch

Two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives.

Alex

May 1993 •English

It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

Domino

November 1988 •English

A woman director is making a film about Billie Holiday. She wants to learn from her how to "feel" again, how to love again.

Lost in Translation

September 2003 •English

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

November 2002 •Danish

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.

Boys Don't Cry

September 1999 •English

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Good After Bad

April 2017 •English

Wes Thorne and Shelly Ackerman — two people living in opposite worlds. Shelly’s mother is off her medication so her home life is in shambles and she’s being bullied at school. Wes is an eccentric, wealthy man who has deep-seated issues with women and no close friends. When Wes offers to be Shelly’s legal guardian, both of their lives take a dramatic turn.

Tick Tick Boom

June 2009 •Danish

Pelle is in love with Dagmar and really wants to reveal this to her, but his drunken dad keeps getting in the way. Rasmus can't accept that his newborn son is seriously ill and ends up distancing himself from his wife in order to try to hold on to the hope. Aksel wants to get back together with his ex-wife and is using his daughter as a go-between until the day when his ex-wife suddenly brings home a new boyfriend.

Ode to Joy

April 2006 •Polish

Three stories of young disillusioned Poles of different background and region of origin. What binds them together is that they all meet on the bus to London shortly after Poland's entry into EU.

Fragile

August 2015 •German

Instead of giving herself time to come to terms with the loss of her relationship, Natalie has a first date with Sascha that triggers exactly what she wanted to suppress: her lovesickness. She needs one night and some more or less self-destructive and bizarre encounters until she can find peace again.

Cuties

August 2020 •French

Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named “the cuties” at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process.

Back Home

January 2020 •French

The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his family and make sense of their dysfunctions.

Two Dollar Bill

February 2016 •English

Two Dollar Bill is shown from the perspective of teenage roommates Greta and Harper. Their friendship is tested when Greta’s friend Frankie appears unexpectedly on Halloween. An examination of modern girl culture, this is a story of young women leaving home a little early.

Kolle - Ein Leben für Liebe und Sex

May 2002 •German

The Wedding

January 2013 •Spanish

Mirta is Cuban and lives in Madrid. As many others immigrants she works in cleaning industry. Today at six o'clock p.m. her daughter is going to marry. But nothing turns out as she hopes, and to reach this wedding is more difficult than it appeared at first sight.

Polina

November 2016 •French

Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...

My Life Without Me

March 2003 •English

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Open Hearts

September 2002 •Danish

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

Italian for Beginners

December 2000 •Danish

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

The Secret Life of Words

December 2005 •English

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.