Films

On a crowded theatrical boulevard, love becomes performance and performance becomes fate.

Resistance, family life, and occupation collide across streets that feel dangerously close to the present.

A frightened boy’s encounter on the marshes grows into a story of money, shame, and mistaken hopes.

Three veterans return to the same town and discover that home has changed less visibly, but no less decisively, than they have.

An old friend’s visit unsettles a marriage already living among the ruins of war.

A father and daughter share a peaceful home that social expectation begins to rearrange.

An aging boxer, one last fight, told in real time.

A screenwriter suspected of murder begins a romance with the neighbour who gave him an alibi, while his volatility makes trust increasingly fragile.

Children surviving on the margins of Mexico City become trapped in cycles of violence, abandonment, labour, and retaliation.

A fragile visitor enters her sister’s crowded home and meets a man determined to expose every illusion.

An elderly pensioner facing eviction tries to preserve his dignity and his bond with his small dog in postwar Rome.

An adoption investigation exposes a travelling salesman’s two marriages and the loneliness, compromise, and deception that produced them.

War, ambition, and a ghostly shore draw two families away from the lives they have.

A travelling strongman buys the service of a poor young woman whose openness meets his cruelty on the road.

A family torn apart by slavery carries one moral instruction across years of cruelty.

An adulterous couple leave a cyclist dying after a collision, then discover that guilt and class privilege produce different kinds of fear.

A woman returns to postwar Japan and tries to revive a wartime affair with a man whose promises repeatedly dissolve into avoidance.

In a Danish farmhouse, belief and doubt wait beside a family’s ordinary work.

A prisoner prepares an escape one sound, tool, and repeated gesture at a time.

As Apu grows from child to student, education opens a future whose distance from home becomes increasingly painful for his mother.

A desperate press agent accepts a powerful columnist’s demand to break up his sister’s romance and regain professional favour.

War separates two young lovers and leaves the woman at home to endure loss, coercion, judgement, and uncertainty.

An elderly professor’s road journey opens into dreams, memories, and an unsparing look at the life behind him.

On the day war ends, a young assassin receives one more political order.

At Cairo’s main railway station, a disabled newspaper seller’s obsession with a drinks vendor turns a crowded social world towards violence.

A brief affair in Hiroshima opens a difficult passage between public catastrophe and private memory.

A woman disappears from a rocky island, and the search slowly exposes a different kind of absence.

Rome, glamour, emptiness — beautiful and exhausting.

A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.

A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.

In a vast hotel, a man insists that a woman promised to leave with him last year—or perhaps in another version of the past.

A novice nun attempts charity in a world Buñuel refuses to make morally tidy.

Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.

A young offender’s talent for distance running becomes a reform-school governor’s favourite proof of success.

A man is arrested without being detained and drawn through a legal system that never states the charge against him.

A director unable to make his next film retreats into memories, fantasies, and an ever-growing production circus.

A man leaving treatment spends a day revisiting Paris, old friends, and the life he cannot persuade himself to re-enter.

A poor couple cross Brazil’s sertão through a messianic cult, hired violence, and revolutionary myth after killing an exploitative landowner.

A lonely newspaper editor’s wife discovers her literary voice and a dangerous emotional intimacy when his poet cousin comes to stay.

A Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop has reduced life to transactions until the present begins to break through.

An amateur entomologist is trapped in a sand pit with a widow whose nightly labour keeps their home from being buried.

A timid carpenter is appointed “Aryan controller” of a Jewish widow’s button shop and discovers that ordinary self-interest cannot remain separate from persecution.

A donkey passes from owner to owner, carrying the weight of human tenderness, use, and cruelty.

A young Senegalese woman travels to France for domestic work and discovers that the promised new life confines her to an apartment and a role imposed by others.

A late-night drink between two academic couples becomes an escalating struggle over marriage, status, and shared fictions.

A bourgeois intellectual remains in Havana after his family leaves Cuba, observing the revolution while avoiding any stable commitment to it or to other people.

Work, family, play, and fatigue shape daily life in a Black neighbourhood of Los Angeles.

In a collapsing rural settlement, the return of a persuasive man reorganises hope, money, and betrayal.

A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.

A series of cruel incidents disturbs a German village where discipline already governs family, school, church, and work.

A father, a daughter, and a horse repeat the work of survival as wind and light begin to withdraw from their world.

A young novice meets her aunt and learns that the life awaiting her rests beside a family history she never knew.

A radio journalist caring for his young nephew learns that listening professionally and listening lovingly are different skills.

Two Black women reconnect in 1920s New York, where visibility, safety, desire, and identity never align neatly.