The Unattainable Story (2017)
The lines of real life and fantasy begin to blur, as the director starts to suspect that he may only be a character in the story manipulated by the writer in order to get him to direct the play the way she wants, but also to stimulate her creativity.
Director: Emilia Ferreira
Actors: Edoardo Ballerini, Harry Hamlin, Irina Björklund, Kevin Kilner
Country: USA
Teenage (2013)
Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but “Teenage” offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect…
Family Dinner (2022)
Overweight and insecure, Simi spends Easter weekend with her famous nutritionist aunt. The hope is that it’ll help her get on a healthier track, but as the aunt’s family’s icy…
Leap Year (2010)
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on…
Dolphin Reef (2020)
In “Dolphin Reef,” Disneynature dives under the sea to frolic with some of the planet’s most engaging animals: dolphins. Echo is a young bottlenose dolphin who can’t quite decide if…
Good Madam (2021)
Residues of apartheid-era domestic servitude confront legacies of colonial land theft in South African auteur Jenna Cato Bass’s daring horror-satire.
Strangers (2007)
An overnight train journey, from London into France, business class, is comfortable and expensive. The premise where two of the film’s protagonists,’strangers’ to each other, meet, talk and decide to…
My Summer of Love (2004)
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother, and Mona helps Tamsin spy on…