Expanding on the notion of loneliness and the importance of familiar places in our lives, Rocher brings in themes about emotional dependency, possessiveness and the ways we define our identities in relation to others.
Following one hell of a party, Sam wakes up to the worst-ever morning after — blood-stained walls, an empty apartment building, and Parisian streets filled with the living dead. Even worse, he’s all alone.
As heavy on symbolism as it is light on plot, Night God combines the ancient shamanic imagery of the region with the concrete rooms and endless paper-strewn desks of a more recent era.
In a post-Apocalyptic world, a man with a bomb strapped to his body looks for somebody who can arrange for it to be removed.
Navigating fears, dreams and dark imaginings, it has a folkloric depth to it even as it seems acutely relevant to the present, to our changing world.
Between sleeping, waking and dreaming, we experience a collective dream of children who seem to be alone in this world – alone with universal questions and fears for which they must find their own answers.
While a specific killer may not be unmasked, toxic masculinity and its co-conspirator the patriarchal society stand in the dock - and the case against them is damning.
It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.
A young man is sent to La Maca, a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new Roman and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
Though shot on cheap black-and-white film stock, NOTLD was the film that would turn the whole horror genre blood red, with its innovative use of graphically realistic gore effects.
Film that set the template for the modern zombie movie.
The strongest scene is the first one, where Sebastián shows us what he can do as a filmmaker when not distracted by a commitment to going over the top.
One New Year's Eve party, Nico, a naive 20-year-old, sets out ready to lose his virginity at all costs. In the middle of the party, his gaze crosses Medea, a cunning and attractive mature woman.
The film is shot in gorgeous shades of noir by Luciana Baseggio, and has a deliciously dark, sultry score.
An actor and a politician start an affair and discover a fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dreams, the more risk taking they become.
Simple in structure, with a series of interviews supported by clips of film, the documentary finds its power in the accumulation of ideas across its running time.
A documentary delving into the journeys of IsKweWak (women) storytellers navigating the film and television industry.
We never get a real sense of who Nimona is as an individual, beyond the impressions she gives to other people, so that the film comes to rely on the old trope of eliciting sympathy for a monster rather than de-monstering her.
When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn't commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona -- a mischievous, shapeshifting creature he's sworn to destroy.
Unflinching in its horrific subject matter and challenging in its construction.
A struggling actress gets a role as the heroine of a Seventies espionage film, but after she is beset by a series of unfortunate events, can she fight against the odds?
Like last year's Baby Done and 2019's Saint Frances this is a thoroughly modern consideration of impending motherhood that doesn't shy away from subjects like casual sex and allows the mother not to be consumed by sudden maternal instinct.
When a woman discovers she is unexpectedly pregnant her unborn baby proves unexpectedly animated in the conversation department.
There’s a lot going on in this 100 minute epic of swinging fists, day-glo aesthetics and sub-Asylum CGI.
A lowly redneck has to up his game quickly when the puppy-eating leader of a ninja cult kidnaps the woman he has a crush on and plans to sacrifice her.
Nino offers a glimpse into an ordinary, possibly unfulfilled life and the psyche of a contemporary man trying to reconfigure things in the wake of a challenge.
Seventy-two hours before Nino's chemotherapy, he must complete the two missions given to him by his doctor.
Jones has been turning in consistently good work for years now and it’s high time he had a role like this. The art of it lies in how he keeps us alert to his character’s dangerous potential without ever letting us lose sight of his humanity.
Events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on Tasmania are explored in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred.
The supernatural and psychological narratives interrelate in ambitious ways which offer up interesting possibilities but which Ferrante ultimately lacks the skill to carry off.
Following the disappearance of a child and a monstrous encounter, a family disintegrates, but the missing girl's brother keeps on hunting for the truth.
A fashion designer is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband, until help arrives in the form of a Filipina carer, who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
By night, Shreyank Nanjappa’s inspired sound design captures the furious beating of wings and, layered on top of them, the shuffling and chirrupping and all the curious calls of the moths as they rush in to land.
In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us. In the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on this secret universe.
Louis Dodd's music, Thomas Blazukas' sound, Mauricio Reyes Serrano's work as DoP - all give a sense of the dreaming seas, the night, choirs and candlelit coves, corneal close-up.
Sailors on a Spanish fishing ship fight a silent battle during their long, empty hours in the port of Montevideo.
The way the sound designer creates a landscape of silence is particularly impressive.
After the disappearance of her younger sister, a woman with a hearing impediment experiences bizarre happenings and frightening encounters when mysterious noises echo throughout the building.
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