Asab keshi (2023)

Le bonheur est pour demain

Anna, stuck in a relationship with an authoritarian and violent man, falls in love with Claude who is planning a robbery. The robbery goes wrong and Claude ends up in prison.

64: Part 2

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.

Arabani

After being estranged from his Druze village and family for 17 years, Yoseph returns with his two Israeli, teenage children. His marriage to a Jewish Israeli woman has just ended and he plans to settle down there. His arrival causes friction inside the closed, conservative Druze community and also with his mother Afifa, who accepts him and his children as part of her family again.

Phantoms of Nabua

The story based on the mysterious portrait of the town of Nabua in northeastern Thailand. Soon after nightfall when the crepuscular violets concede to blackness, the wind's rustling intensifies and the boys come out to play.

Io sono con te

Maria è una giovane ragazza, figlia di pastori, promessa in sposa a Giuseppe, un vedovo con due figli, abitante nel vicino villaggio di Nazareth, nella Galilea di duemila anni fa. Cresciuta secondo l'amore e il rispetto verso i più piccoli, Maria dopo aver lasciato la propria casa, presto ravvisa le storture del mondo patriarcale che la circonda, a partire dalla famiglia del marito. Qui detta legge il fratello più anziano di Giuseppe, Mardocheo. L'atteggiamento solare e determinato della ragazza, protettivo nei confronti dei bambini, suscita l'indignazione del capofamiglia e di quanti sono convinti della necessità di impartire loro punizioni, disciplina e sottomissione. A fare da sfondo alla vicenda, gli scenari aspri di una terra sottoposta al giogo coloniale dei romani e alle angherie di re Erode. Sollevazioni e ribellioni sono all'ordine del giorno, e il richiamo alla violenza e alla vendetta, si propaga come una sorta di contagio...

Killer Influence

In the midst of summer, Alex, a successful influencer, invites a few friends to her small isolated country house. One evening, after streaming a live video, they are visited by a particularly persistent stalker - The begining of a dreadful night they'll never forget.

La maschera di scimmia

Jill è una detective privata di 28 anni, capace ma disoccupata. A caccia di emozioni forti, comincia ad indagare sulla misteriosa sparizione di una studentessa, Mickey. Durante le indagini, Jill conosce Diana, la seducente professoressa di poesia di Mickey, e con lei intreccia subito un particolare rapporto. Nel frattempo Mickey viene ritrovata morta. I genitori distrutti dal dolore chiedono a Jill di trovare l'assassino. Presto Jill dovrà dare risposta a domande inquietanti, dovrà scoprire a chi sono indirizzate le poesie erotiche di Mickey, che legame c'è tra Mickey e i suoi poeti preferiti. E soprattutto chi lascia minacciosi messaggi in versi nella sua segreteria telefonica.

The Bloody Truth

This film tells the story of the unknown pre-history of the AIDS virus, long before people started to die in the US and Europe. Following a team of scientists we uncover a forgotten medical archive in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that tells of an epidemic a full two decades before anyone knew about the novel killer. From high-tech labs in the US to African medics who have their boots on the ground, we trace HIV back to its origin in the jungles of Cameroon. In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, colonialism fundamentally changed the lives of millions of people in central Africa; it created an environment that allowed HIV to leave its original host, the chimpanzee, and start to spread in humans.

Trump, my american family and i

Ingo Zamperoni has been known as one of the anchormen of the popular German late-night news journal Tagesthemen since 2016. The German-Italian knows the USA like only a few people because he studied there and later he reported from there as an US correspondent. He is also married to an American. That is why he has many relatives in the United States. But the rift that runs through American society also runs right through his in-laws living there. While father-in-law Paul is a supporter of the Republicans under Donald Trump, his wife Jiff and mother-in-law Lynn are supporters of the Democrats and concerned for their country. As an African American, the second husband of his mother-in-law brings his own insights into the increased racism in the country. Zamperoni embarks on a family-political search for the causes in order to understand why the whole country and its family are so torn.

Kandhei Akhire Luha

Debendra, a reputed industrialist lost everything in a fraud case. He lives with daughter Binni. Soon Binni get married and is killed by her in-laws. Her spirit enters in dolly body to take revenge.

Carna

Although it was actually an impersonal commissioned film, the director's style is clearly recognizable. Once again he manages to make something that is normal very strange: the dancing people in costumes are filmed in such a way that they look bizarre and absurd. Jan de Bont's camerawork shows a series of color images of dancing people, edited to the rhythm of the music. Halfway through the film, a lonely clown can be seen among the dancing crowd, accompanied by sad music. This clown is played by Ditvoorst himself.

City in Heat

A group of friends in their 30's meet at a bar in Buenos Aires everyday. They used to hang here as students, laughing at the world, and now they still dream of changing the world from the cafe's table. Unable discuss politics or football, the only thing they can talk about is women. When one of their friends commits suicide, a female from his past shows up to confront old feelings.

Il cacciatore di squali

Un recluso burbero su un'isola caraibica che si dedica alla distruzione degli squali viene coinvolto in una caccia al tesoro sepolto.

The Journey

Sara enters Baghdad station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her plans are drastically altered by an unwanted and awkward encounter with Salam, a self-assured and flirtatious salesman. With Salam now hostage to Sara’s confused and deluded plan, he battles desperately to appeal to her humanity and sway her decision. In a moment of consideration and with her convictions crumbling before her, Sara is given the opportunity to witness the life and innocence she was so willing to destroy. But is this a second chance or an admission of guilt?

Driver

A dark drama set on the streets of Las Vegas, following a driver/serial killer with multiple personality disorder, and the rogue detective hunting him down.

Hairpin Circus

A retired racing champion, now a driving instructor, gets involved with the speed tribes after impulsively taking to the streets to relive his former glory.