After serving in the German Army, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) retires and seeks permission from the Danish Royal Court to cultivate and colonize the Jutland moorland, a barren stretch of land and an unfulfilled passion project of the King’s for some time. If successful, he asks in return from the Court to bestow upon…
Category: 2023
All of us Strangers
After returning to his apartment from a fire alarm in the middle of the night, Adam (Andrew Scott), is reunited with his writer’s block when there is a knock on his door. Harry (Paul Mescal), a neighbor in the complex, asks if he wants to share a drink with him. Adam declines as he has…
Rustin
A little scorned, but not deterred by his forced resignation from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after outside pressure necessitated the cancellation of the planned march on the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo), if anything, became even more committed to the larger Civil Rights movement. Rustin set his sights on organizing what…
The Teachers’ Lounge
A string of petty thefts has set the students and faculty at a German middle school on edge. Ali (Can Rodenbostel), a young boy in Carla’s (Leonie Benesch) 7th grade class is brought in for questioning when a sum of money is discovered in his wallet after the class was subjected to a frisking by the…
The Zone of Interest
Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) lives with his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), and their five children. While Höss is at work, Hedwig gets the children ready for school, tends to the garden, and enjoys tea with her friends. Their idyllic life is put in jeopardy when Höss is put up for a promotion that would require…
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Lieutenant Stephen Maryk (Jake Lacy) stands accused of mutiny for his actions while aboard the U.S.S. Caine. His story is that the captain of the ship, Lt. Commander Queeg (Kiefer Sutherland), had been showing a pattern of mental decline and when the ship was caught in a cyclone in the Strait of Hormuz, Maryk detained…
The Delinquents
Morán (Daniel Elías) has grown weary working every day at the bank and is still some twenty years away from retirement. One afternoon, the opportunity presents itself, and Morán steals $625,000 from the safe; enough money for him and an accomplice to retire early on. He meets with Román (Esteban Bigliardi), one of his colleagues,…
Freud’s Last Session
In September of 1939, as Hitler rose to power, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), met with an unnamed Oxford don who many believe to have been C. S. Lewis (Matthew Goode). The two potentially talked over a variety of topics about life, death, religion, sex, and their respective bodies of work. Suffering from oral cancer, Freud…
Fallen Leaves
Ansa (Alma Pöysti) is a lonely grocery store worker who is let go from her job when she allows someone to take some of the expired merchandise home with them instead of throwing it out. Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) is a laborer who struggles to hold a job given his alcoholism. The two meet by chance…
The Marquee Topic 