Felix (Langston Uibel) and Leon (Thomas Schubert) go on a short retreat away from the city to Felix’s grandfather’s cabin near the Baltic Sea. Felix plans to finish his photography portfolio for school and Leon, the manuscript for his next novel. Their plans do not start off well when the car breaks down leaving them…
Tag: International Cinema
The Boy and the Heron
Mahito (Luca Padovan) is still grieving the loss of his mother when he moves into the sprawling, lake-front estate of his Aunt, Natsuko (Gemma Chan). His father, Shoichi (Christian Bale), a weapons manufacturer, had remarried the younger sister of his departed wife and now they are expecting a child together. While out exploring the grounds,…
Godzilla Minus One
As World War II draws to a close, kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) lands his plane on the island of Odo citing his plane was malfunctioning and needed repairs. Later that night, the crew is awakened by an attack, though not by the Allied Powers, but rather by Godzilla. The ancient monster destroys the…
Anatomy of a Fall
After giving an interview for her new book, Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) goes to lie down and rest. She is woken up sometime later by screams from her son, Daniel (Milo Machado Graner), who went out for a walk with his service dog, Snoop, in the woods near their chateau. The boy has discovered the…
Nuovo Olimpo
Enea (Damiano Gavino) is a film student who often skips class to work crew on whatever project is filming in town or see what is playing that afternoon at the Nuovo Olimpo Cinema, a repertoire house that is also used by gay men for cruising. The young man’s predictable agenda works to Pietro’s (Andrea Di…
When Evil Lurks
Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimmy (Demián Salomon) follow the sound of gunshots one night leading them to a small rural town. In the morning, they find what they were after; Uriel, a young man who is bloated and covered in boils, grown ill from carrying the reincarnation of evil itself. Working with Ruiz (Luis Ziembrowski),…
El Conde
On December 10, 2006, Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell) died at the age of 91; 33 years after his violent assertion to the presidency of Chile and 25 years after his regime lost the plebiscite vote ushering in the end of his rule. But what if he did not die and instead went into hiding? Not…
Rotting in the Sun
Sebastián (Sebastián Silva) is stuck in a creative rut in between projects and feeling hopeless, he makes jokes with his friend and landlord Mateo (Mateo Riestra) about taking dog poison. He is urged to go to a nearby gay, nude beach to relax, but he ends up rescuing a drowning swimmer caught in the rip…
The Eight Mountains
Pietro (Lupo Barbiero) joins his mother, Francesca (Elena Lietti), in Grana, a small town in the Italian Alps, as he does every summer. His father, Giovani (Filippo Timi), joins when he can but otherwise spends most of his time at work. Pietro becomes fast friends with Bruno (Cristiano Sassella), the only other boy in the…
The Marquee Topic 