Simone (Francesco Scianna) and Paolo Ferrari (Filippo Timi) are a few nights away from celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. One evening, however, Paolo forgets his phone at the house and Simone intercepts some texts from a mysterious Ricardo (Mauro Conte) who has been having an affair with Paolo. While this is happening, their son, Leone…
Tag: International Cinema
Great Freedom
In the wake of World War II, Hans (Franz Rogowski), was liberated from a concentration camp only to be imprisoned so that he may serve out the rest of his sentence for being gay. While there, he forms a careful bond with his cellmate, Viktor (Georg Friedrich), serving his own sentence for murder. After Hans’…
Luzifer
High in the Alps live the reclusive Maria (Susanne Jensen) and her grown son, Johannes (Franz Rogowski). Fleeing to their “Eden” when Johannes was just a boy, he has been sheltered from the world and still has the faculties and comprehension of a child. His only form of education – or rather, indoctrination – comes…
Death of Nintendo
Living in the shadow of Mt. Pinatubo in the early 1990s, there is only one thing on the mind of Paolo (Noel Comia Jr.) and his friend Kachi (John Vincent Servilla); the new Nintendo game, The Legend of Zelda. Unfortunately, due to blackouts from earthquakes and the soon-to-erupt volcano, the boys are unable to play…
The Medium
In the mountains of Thailand is a shrine to an ancestral spirit, Bayan, and her shaman, Nim (Sawanee Utoomma), who works as a seamstress in the nearby town. As is tradition, Bayan selects a female in the family line to possess and fill the role of the spirit’s shaman, but the process causes a lot…
The Feast
Glenda (Nia Roberts) enlists the help of Cadi (Annes Elwy) in preparing a rich feast for her family and associates at their country estate. She wants to make a good impression of a happy successful family despite their perceived shortcomings: her husband Gwyn’s (Julian Lewis Jones) questionable skill as a provider, their older son Gweirydd…
Feast
In 2007, in the Dutch city of Groningen, three men were charged and found guilty of hosting sex parties wherein they would drug the gay men they lured to their home, inject them with syringes of HIV-positive blood, and leave their unconscious bodies strewn about the city. Tim Leyendekker directs Feast, released by Mubi in…
Cobalt Blue
When a nameless tenant (Prateik Babbar) moves into a vacant upstairs room at a Fort Kochi estate, his presence greatly disrupts the traditional family dynamic. The stunning and mysterious heartthrob catches the attention of Tanay (Neelay Mehendale), the middle child of the family and an aspiring poet, as well as Anuja (Anjali Sivaraman), the youngest,…
Gagarine
Cité Gagarine was a Soviet-constructed housing project built in France in 1963 and named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The complex would eventually come to house many immigrants from Europe to France, until its condemnation in 2019 and subsequent 16-month long demolition. Gagarine is a touching eulogy of a film that follows Youri (Alséni Bathily), a…
The Marquee Topic 