Fei (Kai Ko) works as an illegal hustler, but despite his affairs, he has one true love: Xiaolai (J.C. Lin). When Xiaolai’s apartment is raided by police, Fei runs away and falls out of contact with Xiaolai as he creates a new life for himself in a new city. A family emergency finds Fei returning…
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Our Eternal Summer
With high school behind them and just waiting to start their adult lives in a few short weeks, a group of friends spend their days hanging around the coastal Mediterranean town of Marseille. With the sun setting on their beach day, Malo (Matthieu Lucci) and Lola (Marcia Feugeas) go back for one final dip in…
Playground
Nora (Maya Vanderbeque) is nervous about starting school as she hugs her father (Karim Leklou) goodbye in the schoolyard. Things do not go well for the young girl when she sees her older brother, Abel (Günter Duret), getting bullied during recess. Despite her pleas, she cannot get an adult to step in and rectify 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…
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…
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…
Rien à Foutre
Cassandre (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a twenty-six-year-old flight attendant at the budget airline, Wings. When not in the air she fills her time with parties, drinks, and one-night stands – a truly transient lifestyle so as not to be held back. When her contract ends, she is given the option of termination or advancement to cabin…
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…
The Marquee Topic 