Night Swimming

Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives

October 2016 •English

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

The Blind Squad

May 2014 •Romanian

Matthew is a 23 years old young man who likes to spend his time doing nothing else than sleeping. He has no purpose in life, being a complete ignorant to everything around him. He lives with his mother, who tries her best to persuade him to get a job and make something of his life. After one fight, he finally decides to take the interview at the military unit his mother has arranged for him.

A Song Sung Blue

March 2024 •Chinese

Fifteen year-old Xian goes to live with her father while her mother, a doctor, takes a job in Africa. Soon, she becomes fascinated by her father's stepdaughter, a swaggering, liberated and slightly melancholic young woman.

Lioness

December 2020 •Dutch

When the temperamental Sylvie (17) is told that she has to give up her child when it’s born, she decides to escape the youth institution where she’s placed. In her eyes it’s the only solution to prevent that her child will have the same institutionalized youth as she endured.

The Year Without Light

September 2023 •English

Northern Mexico - 1997. Ulises, a detective tired of the violence that his work and country present, narrates in detail his last case before retiring: The disappearance of Lucía Pardo.

A New Breath

April 2021 •French

At 16, Gabriel takes over the camera of his deceased older brother and films his daily life with his little sister who is growing up, his mother who is sinking into madness and a boy from his neighborhood. An unexpected encounter will lead Gabriel to film a first love.

House Comes with a Bird

March 2022 •English

It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes dynamics of power in race, gender and class. While it’s the macaw that seems ostensibly and literally caged, Bravo’s drama of manners suggests that every single one of us may not be quite as uncaged as we assume.

Until This Day

November 2021 •English

As Anna and her girlfriend Mia spend their last hours together before Anna sets off to leave Milwaukee to join the Peace Corps, Mia is troubled by her departure.

Heartbeat

April 2022 •Korean

Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.

The Illustrated Man

March 1969 •English

A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.

Secuestro Express

June 2004 •Spanish

Young couple Carla and Martin are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the ransom

Rupture

September 2011 •Danish

The film is about the animality that lies latent in the act of sex, and focuses on love and eroticism as a bodily, transcending act. Love and the experience of loss is given concrete physical expression in the film through blood, vomit, sweat and tears. wonderful "Rupture" is far from the more progressive action of a classic film, it is built around an atmospheric intensification that gradually builds to finally release. Both in the action and on the sound side, the film uncovers extreme moods from the swaying, meditative to the uncomfortable and transgressing.

Bosco's Guitar

Invalid date •English

The true story of Bosco, a young musician orphaned and blinded by the 1993 Burundian genocide, is taken in by a member of the tribe he believes is responsible for the death of his mother. Bosco is forced to choose between hatred and hope.

Falas de Orgulho: Histórias (Im)possíveis

June 2023 •Portuguese

Momma's Boy

March 2023 •English

Sam is a teenager whose many anxieties manifest as a ghostly apparition of his mother that is determined to give him a panic attack.

Révérence

January 2023 •English

He danced for fame. She danced through pain. For old times' sake and to new beginnings . . . in a fleeting moment.

David Rose

January 2011 •English

Ten year old Stella Stewart's world changes when a strange young man enters her life with heartbreaking consequences.

Helen's Nose

October 2021 •English

An overlooked woman finds much needed confidence when she experiences the horror of an additional growth on her face.

The Flock

July 2017 •Spanish

Late afternoon, a bar and three individuals who apparently have nothing in common. Complaint about the preferential securities scam.

Apt Pupil

October 1998 •English

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.