In this deeply personal film about her relationship with her legendary filmmaker father, Francesca Comencini’s virtuosic work of cinematic autobiography paints a richly emotional picture of their changing bond during the Years of Lead. Nominated for six Donatello Awards.

“The Time it Takes is a ...

A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage. Ostensibly a merry reunion between well-known film director Blake Cadieux ...

Inspired by a real-life tragedy, the infamous Cinema Rex fire in 1978 that triggered the Iranian Revolution, Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's mind-bending mystery leapfrogs between past and present, fact and fiction to create an unforgettable picture of Time not as a straight line, bu...

Weary of the rigid codes of the underworld, gambler Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura, Goyokin) wanders Japan in search of freedom. But escape proves to be impossible when an obligation to a gang boss leaves him with no choice but to kill a man.

A bittersweet, slapstick cross between MONSTER SQUAD, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and the Island of Misfit Toys, FRECKLED MAX is a nostalgic Gothic fairytale from acclaimed Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko about a young orphan Max who runs away and hides out in the ruins of nearby Frankenstein's castle. Th...

Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W mystery / comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate, played out in deadpan Jim Jarmusch-meets-Tarantino vignettes.

Block Pass is a queer motocross coming-of-age drama—sensitive, deeply felt, and quietly profound—that establishes Antoine Chevrollier as a filmmaker to watch.
Reminiscent of Rebel Without a Cause, but with dirt bikes as the vehicle for defiance, the film follows blood-brothers Willy (Sayyid El A...

Directed by Michael Schaack • Animation • With Helge Schneider, Frank Röth • 1994 • 82 minutes

A combination feline detective story, Gothic mystery and occult horror, the German animated feature FELIDAE follows cat protagonist Francis and his grizzled, one-eyed companion Blaubart as they unravel...

Retrieving the diamonds he stashed before his arrest, thief Miyamoto hopes to help his old partner Mihara, crippled during the heist. Their former boss, crime lord Oyane, offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself.

"Tabula rasa and vita nova," exclaims artist Jean-Yves Machond (Benoît Poelvoorde). "A clean slate and a new life." Leaving Brussels and his job as a professor to settle in Normandy, Machond searches for inspiration, convinced he still has something to say with his art.
The small town of Étretat...

In this dread-soaked cerebral thriller from filmmaker Sébastien Marnier (Faultless, The Origin of Evil), a teacher throws himself from a classroom window before the terrified eyes of his students. Despite the tragedy, six of them remain oddly cool and unemotional. Pierre (Laurent Lafitte), the ne...

Nestled in a lush Swiss valley in the summer of 1900, 17-year-old Elisabeth is preparing to take her vows at a nunnery when her fate is abruptly altered as she is summoned home following the death of her elder sister. At home the maddening silence surrounding her sister's mysterious death pushes ...

Dark, oppressive, and ominous. A heavily atmospheric and harrowing portrait of the ways in which repressed family dynamics can influence and infect the lives of younger generations– not tangible, not namable, but inexorable. In a small town in 1970s West Germany, Stephanie (played by a charming Z...