Did you know that you have to stir clockwise when you stir your oatmeal? Otherwise you're letting the devil into your porridge. Everyone knows this- at least in the village of Carrbridge in the Scottish Highlands. For 30 years the town has hosted the World Porridge Championships. This year it's a special championship because it's the last time Charlie Miller will be in charge of the festivities....See more details
After her parents are transformed into pigs, young Chihiro becomes trapped in a mysterious, magical world inhabited by spirits and monsters. Terrified at first, the little girl slowly discovers a courage she never knew she possessed...
This deeply personal documentary captures several years in the lives of four family members. Pepa, the director, records on an iPhone and tries to understand why their beloved older brother and cousins live unhoused and experience substance addiction. Unsentimentally, the film traces the causes and fallout of addiction, asking where love ends, control begins, and what respect truly demands: to save, or to let go.
An extremely strange group of people lives in a communal house in a godforsaken district. The occupants of the house — apart from the vegetarian in the cellar — share one great passion: they are all customers of the butcher’s shop Delicatessen on the ground floor. One day the group is enhanced by the arrival of a young man with an unusual hobby.
Jung-hwan, a professional wild animal trainer, spends his days bickering and playing with his teenage daughter, Soo-ah, who is passionate about dancing. Then one day, Soo-ah gets infected by a zombie virus that sweeps across the world. To protect her, Jung-hwan takes Soo-ah to a seaside village where his mother lives....See more details
Amidst the turmoil of the Thirty Years´ War, somewhere in Germany, a mysterious soldier appears in a secluded Protestant village. The stranger declares himself the heir of a long-abandoned farmstead and produces a document to support his claim to the suspicious villagers. With time, he overcomes their doubts and shows himself to be a hard-working, God-fearing man, becoming part of the community in a quest for acceptance made up of impossible deceit....See more details
April 15th, 1939. Just two weeks after the war’s end, Franco invites his top generals for a night of triumph. But in the hotel’s kitchen, a group of defeated Republican chefs are secretly preparing the meal, while also cooking up their last chance to escape the country.
Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together — from acting school to the grandest stages, amid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals....See more details
Corneliu Porumboiu and his father, former referee Adrian Porumboiu, revisit a football match played in 1988 between Steaua and Dinamo, in the middle of a snowstorm, one year before Ceauşescu’s fall. The game becomes a reflection on memory, communism, and truth.
Fatima is 17 and the youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family living in the suburbs of Paris. But after being admitted to a prestigious philosophy university in the city centre, she discovers a whole new world. Along come difficult questions about identity, duty, and the meaning of emancipation. Torn between the traditions she grew up with and her own intimate desires, Fatima must find her own path.