The musical comedy follows the fictitious tale of a young William Shakespeare, who's going through a writer’s block and spends countless hours at Elsie’s bar, a place full of incidents, love affairs and accidents. Where people are killed and people die, where some laugh and some others…
"Impressive. Disquieting and poignant." -Glenn Kenny, Critics Pick, The New York Times “Ham on Rye has the uncanny echo of a disturbing real-life dream. A hauntingly off-kilter revision of the end-of-high-school drama.” - Richard Brody, The New Yorker Ham on Rye, a coming-of-age…
Dr. Michael Vidal is in his final year of residency and has just been named senior chief resident of the heart surgery program at his hospital. After his father's death, he slowly begins to lose touch with reality and resorts to drinking while on the job. When Dr. Vidal begins to question his profession,…
Ned, the bullied outsider, and Conor, the new boy and star athlete, are forced to room together at their boarding school. The boys take an instant dislike to each other, and seem destined to remain enemies until an English teacher, Mr. Sherry, begins to drill into them the value of finding one's…
When a young rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a dangerous red zone, where friends become enemies, and nothing is certain.
A Kafkaesque documentary debut over ten years in the making that sheds light on the absurdity of a bureaucratic system, set within the never-ending process of renovation of the Slovak National Gallery.
There‘s a very good reason why you should let sleeping dogs lie, as 9-year-old Johanna discovers. Growing up a good Catholic girl in the provincial Austrian town of Wels in the late 1960s, she learns from her grandmother her family‘s secret: they are Jewish. Life now starts to change, uncomfortably…
Hannah is the intimate portrait of a woman’s loss of identity as she teeters between denial and reality. Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self-control,…
Gegen Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges erholt sich der Frontsoldat Klaus Schneider (Klaus Maria Brandauer) im Lazarett seines Mentors Dr. Bettelheim von einer Kopfverletzung. Er erkennt dabei seine Fähigkeit, den Willen anderer Leute zu beeinflussen und zukünftige Dinge zu erahnen. Unter dem Namen…
“Taormina’s film keys us to an almost primordial rhythm exempt from routine or history.” William Repass, Slant Magazine “A deeply beautiful piece of work. Suburban milieu rendered otherworldly and ghostly.” Daniel Gorman, In Review Online “Daring in concept and…
The film is a silent comedy made in Russia in 1934. It is a fable about the desperate pursuit of happiness by Khmyr, a moujik who faces his natural enemies: first in tsarist Russia - the koulaks, the police, the Pope, and the Tsar’s employees - and then in the communist soviet. This film that springs…