Jessica (Tilda Swinton), travels to Columbia to meet her sister Karen (Agnes Brekke) who has fallen ill. One morning, Jessica is jolted awake by a loud, singular bang that rattles through her body, yet only she can hear. She meets with Hernán (Juan Pablo Urrego), a sound technician, who helps recreate the sound. Her journey towards discovery…
Tag: International Cinema
Ballad of a White Cow
A year after her husband was executed through the death penalty, Mina (Maryam Moqadam) and her brother-in-law (Pouria Rahimi) receive word that new evidence has come to light and that Babak was wrongfully convicted of the crime. Still in mourning, she meets Reza (Alireza Sani Far), a kind stranger, but as their friendship begins to…
Drive My Car
Yūsuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an acclaimed theatre actor who is married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), an accomplished screenwriter. Their relationship is fraught with tragedy having lost a young daughter to pneumonia, and to escape the troubles of his home life, Yūsuke often goes for drives to clear his mind – a hobby that is jeopardized…
Identifying Features
Jesús (Juan Jesús Varela) and Rigo (Armando García), two adolescent boys from Guanajuato, Mexico, announce one morning to their families that they will make the trek north to the United States. Weeks later, when Rigo is found dead, Jesús’ mother Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez), resolves to follow her son’s footsteps to see if he was able…
Days
Non (Anong Houngheuangsy) is a young man that lives alone busying himself with the chores necessary to meet the needs of his meager existence. He works as a masseuse where he meets Kang (Lee Kang-sheng), another solitary man who suffers from pain in his neck and back, though with a slightly more extravagant abode than…
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen is a Danish documentarian, and while he is featured in Neon’s Flee, this is not his story. Rather, it is the story of Amin Nawabi, a childhood friend of Rasmussen who opens up to the filmmaker about his youth. He recounts what life was like growing up in Afghanistan in the 1980s, fleeing to Russia and eventually Denmark, as…
The Pit
Markuss (Damir Onackis) is a troubled young boy. After the death of his artist father, Markuss’ own drawings begin to take a darker turn as he copes with the loss. After he orchestrates a prank that leaves Emili (Luize Birkenberga), a young neighborhood playmate, trapped at the bottom of the titular pit, Markuss becomes the target of scorn for…
Parallel Mothers
Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Mielna Smit) are two expecting mothers who meet as roommates in the maternity ward. With similar, yet different, circumstances that brought them together, the two become unlikely friends through the shared trials of single motherhood. After their discharge from the hospital, the two promise to stay in touch but time, as…
A Hero
Rahim Soltani (Amir Jadidi) is on leave from prison for falling behind on his debts owed to his estranged father-in-law, Bahram (Mohsen Tanabandeh). When Rahim finds a purse abandoned and full of gold coins, he considers selling the gold to pay back his debt, gain his freedom, and marry his new love, Farkondeh (Sahar Goldust). Rahim ultimately decides to try and find the owner to…
The Marquee Topic 