The Auteur (2021)

Little One

A worn out mother, Sara, seeks out the source of her child’s favorite lullaby.

ARGILEUX

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Venus

An erotic comedy in claymation.

Tengers

Whilst working on "the great South African novel," an unemployed writer gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of Johannesburg.

Rivers and Tides

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.

Animated Putty

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.

Look Closer: The Rise and Fall of Robert Benfer

In 2013, online clay animator Robert Benfer scammed hundreds of fans out of thousands of dollars and has continued to become less of the independent film icon he used to be, though his unique influence on video creators remains to this day. This film not only sheds light on how Benfer's films impacted young filmmakers, but also how a talented independent artist can fall from grace no matter how obscure they are.

Transfiguration

Olivier de Sagazan disfigures his face into various creatures, human and nonhuman, to explore the strangeness of life and the body.

Con las manos de ella

After her mother's death, Martina is unable to move on with her life. So she decides to preserve and honor her mother's memory by giving ceramic plates with meaningful illustrations to each of the town's inhabitants, thus continuing the family legacy.

Follow That Sleigh

Two kids accidentally steal Santas sleigh. It's up to Elvis the Rockin' Reindeer to save the day.

The Missing Picture

Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.

The Polizzi Project

When Australian artist Eolo Bottaro revives the lost Triform Goddess Isis, Polizzi's forgotten history revives. This gripping documentary captures the statue's creation, the town's awe, and the artist's unexpected bond with the Sicilian town.

The Great Cognito

The film tells of a music hall impressionist who caricatures personalities from the second world war. Animated by Barry Bruce at Will Vinton Productions. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Ident

Explores the nature of man, not only with feet of clay, but with a face of clay as well. Within a colourless city of walls, corridors, and small rooms, a man makes his way from home to work, then to a bar, and then, by a stroke of luck, into an outdoors of space, fresh air, and colour. Along the way, he changes his face to fit his surroundings, interacts with his dog, argues with co-workers, and gossips at a bar. His altering of his visage suggests a two-faced nature, and his stepping into the outdoors provides the ultimate test of his real identity.

Clay

A killer on the run is found lying flat on his face in a wet clay bank. He is rescued by potters who shelter him within their community. There he falls in love with a woman. Unfortunately, another man who has been calling upon the woman gets jealous and turns the fugitive in to the cops. The woman gets revenge.

Mati Manas

In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.

Drowning

Animation by Ginko Abe. Music by Abhi Tambe.

Mestre Vitalino E Nós No Barro

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Sathamindri Mutham Tha

This is a mystery thriller involving the hero, a killer for hire and the heroine. The heroine is involved in a hit and run case and is rescued by the hero. She becomes amnesiac and he takes her home and keeps her with him. Her husband lodges a complaint with the police that his wife is missing. There is a vengeful Inspector of police who wants to kill the hero he being a killer. This then becomes a story of conflict and entanglement between the characters. What happens to the hero, the heroine who suffers in amnesia, her husband and the policeman gets resolved in the climax.

Where the Ravens Fly

Set in the dense forests of 1940s Eastern Europe, this story reveals the supernatural encounters that challenge three soldiers' understanding of life and death.

Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße

All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently even imprisoned and then deported to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a lavish salary, Micha confirms the story, although only fragments of it are true.

Americanistan

A rich girl from Pakistan must adjust to lower class American life after getting an arranged marriage. After leaving her family, Iman sacrifices everything by coming to America. She is forced to confront new expectations from her husband, Salim, and struggle with the roles and dynamics of what life is really like in the land of opportunity versus the fantasy in her head.

Swollen

Roxy and Lily survive the night after botched plastic surgery.

Lucette

An investigation is started after the brutal murder of the daughter of a high class family.

Travel with Ghost

Ghost comedy film.

The Pit of Death

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the company president's daughter. When Kuramoto returns from his honeymoon with his new wife, Etsuko's brother shows up in search of the whereabouts of his missing sister.

Ghost of Kasane Swamp

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.

Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero

A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.

Beauty in a Bottle

The lives of three women change when a new beauty product arrives.

Wir machen durch bis morgen früh

Ali misses the lavish party nights in Hamburg's Kiez: Ms. Melanie, Baby Bobby and the family's tile company have been his everyday life since he became a father. How can he make it clear to the young mother that there is still life next to the baby? Melanie can be persuaded to a wellness weekend with the friends, but only if Ali takes his father's role seriously.

Viva JKT48

8 members of JKT48 got lost in the zoo, and when they return to theatre, they find out that their theatre has been taken by Miss Kejora, who create a rival group. They must find a way to get the theatre back,

Acemi Çapkın

The film tells the story of Sıtkı Bey, who lives a different life during the day and at night. Sıtkı Bey, who owns a typing course, is a quiet and cold man who is not interested in women. This attitude also affects his students. However, Sıtkı Bey takes on a different character at night. He does not remember what he does at night during the day. Due to his nocturnal escapades, he gains many enemies. When his escapades become known, the typing course will also be in danger.

On Their Own

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.

The Girl from Avenue A

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

Golden Hoofs

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

For Beauty's Sake

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

A Very Young Lady

A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.

Cadet Girl

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

August Falls

Struggling to find the truth behind her son's mysterious death, an estranged mother must confront her own hidden guilt.

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.

The Mad Martindales

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

Telling the World

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution.

Prisonnière

Stuck in a tunnel after a car crash, an amnesic woman needs to escape the wreck before it explodes. But the memories that come back to her in flashes are revealing another shocking story…

Vair

Fateh fires a shot—a murder, police chase, and revenge follows. But what’s the real mystery behind it all? Watch ‘Vair’ to uncover the truth!

El lado oscuro del arcoíris

Gerardo is a gay newspaper editor in the 1980s who faces a dilemma that could define his way of life.

THE CRAWLSPACE

In what seems like a normal home, something sinister lurks about

Boston Strangler The Untold Story

Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.

Men in the City

Follows six very different men and their struggles with women, family and work. Yet, they are somehow connected to each other.