Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a young gymnast, nervous about her upcoming debut competition, made worse by pressure from her mother (Sophia Heikkilä) who runs a video blog chronically the daily life of her idyllic Finish family. One day in the woods behind the house, Tinja finds a small egg and brings it back home to…
Tag: International Cinema
Live is Life
It is finally summer after a failing school year for Rodri (Adrián Baena) and the youth is excited to be reunited with his friends. The gang is ready for an adventure as they plan to set up a mountain to find a flower fabled to have healing properties when it is harvested at sunrise on…
Official Competition
Humberto Suárez (José Luis Gómez), an aging benefactor, wants to leave behind a legacy, something that will live on long after he has passed. He wants to produce the greatest movie ever. To do so, he enlists the prolific director, Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz), whose unique style has garnered her many prestigious awards from the…
Lost Illusions
Landing in Paris with dreams of publishing his poems and hardly a cent in his pocket, Lucien (Benjamin Voisin) meets Etienne (Vincent Lacoste) who works in a publishing house of a small newspaper. Lucien enters the world of journalism and discovers all the riches that can be had by people in power looking to buy…
The Long Walk
A boy (Por Silatsa) discovers a young woman (Noutnapha Soydara) laying in the weeds after a motorbike accident that would take her life. Afraid, he does not report the body and the woman is unable to be cremated so her spirit is bound to walk the earth. Fifty years later, the woman still visits the…
Purple Noon
Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) is on a mission to bring back playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) back to his home in San Fransisco. Philippe, however, has other plans as he galivants through Italy. He invites Tom on a boating trip with himself and Marge (Marie Laforêt), his girlfriend, but as Philippe’s antics grow more and…
Wet Sand
The Wet Sand Café sits on the waterfront of a Georgian beach, a regular haunt for the retired community that lives there. On the outside, it seems like an idyllic community, but when Eliko is discovered to have hung himself, secrets and prejudices begin to come to light as his granddaughter, Moe (Bebe Sesitashvili), enters…
Petite Maman
After the passing of her grandmother, a young girl, Nelly (Joséphine Sanz), assists her parents in cleaning out the matriarch’s old home. Full of grief, Nelly’s mother (Nina Meurisse) leaves her childhood home to be packed up by her husband (Stéphane Varupenne). Nelly grows bored in packing up the house and goes outside to play…
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
A love triangle between two friends. A seduction trap went awry. A chance encounter between two ex-lovers. These are the stories of love, anger, and loss that fill the screen in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s anthology Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, released in the USA by Film Movement after an acclaimed festival run. The film opens with…
The Marquee Topic 