Portrait de Rosa, à la française (2021)

sissi's mixtape (a guide to love, loss & desperation)

fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.

A Night To Remember

An awkward boy and a shy girl meet on a bench, what awaits is a night they will remember forever.

DARKMAN

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.

Flesh in Turmoil

The process of depersonalization maintains a dialogue with the objectification of the body, a sort of thingified flesh, clothed in animosity. In an epiphanic act, the sutures reveal themselves as the reflection of this gaze upon its own spilled fluids and transcend into an internal soup. It is the stream of consciousness in its purest form. It is the raw and the bare. It is the visceral nature of facts. It is the merging of worlds. It is the flesh in turmoil.

Maccaia

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Island Home Country

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Reflejos

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.

Buscando Tesoro (Seeking Treasure)

A super 8 film. A woman in search of precious items left behind by someone special. Una mujer en busca de objetos preciosos dejados por alguien especial.

Dead Funny

A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.

Reflections

Showing the reflections of life. An experimental short film shot on Super 8.

Dirty Sally

Things get personal when reneage cop Dirty Sally investigates local drug kingpin, The Sugarman.

Mania

A single misstep — crushing a cicada beneath his foot — plunges a young man into unsettling paranoia.

My House Was Hijacked By A Cheeky Runaway Female girl! Mai KagariCrushed my adult Pride

One day, when I got home, there was a female student I didn't know. Apparently she had run away from home and didn't have a place to stay, so she broke in while the window was open. Despite being trespassing, he was impertinent, and the pudding I was looking forward to was eaten without permission. When I tried to report it, I was overwhelmed and forced to have sex. Moreover, I can not stand it and I cum inside! "Now your uncle is already a sex offender w."

Beauty and the Beast

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

Belle de Jour

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Boyz n the Hood

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...

M*A*S*H

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

On the Waterfront

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

Paris, Texas

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

The Tin Drum

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

La Jetée

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Twister

An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system. They are joined by Jo's soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.

Ben-Hur

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

Central Station

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Nanook of the North

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Oldboy

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Pearl Harbor

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Contact

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Dead Man Walking

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

The Bridges of Madison County

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

The Travelling Players

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.

Pickpocket

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Noor

The telefilm weaves a story between Noor played by Noor Khan and Waleed played by Asim Azhar. Whilst belonging to two different worlds, the pair is shown to have a very similar nature. Both of them have step-parents and dwell in a state of inferiority, waiting for something extraordinary to happen in their life. As Waleed is trying tooth and nail to excel in his musical career, Noor vies to be a doctor and struggles against the injustice of her stepmother.

Mathil

Laxmikanthan, a common man, takes on a corrupt politician after he damages the wall of his house for an election campaign. Can Laxmikanthan find justice?

Pepe

Divided by a stream, two groups face off. A brave man stands against the dominant community, challenging their oppression of the other side.

Vulgar

Angelika's seemingly perfect life conceals a lack of fulfillment. While arranging her best friend's wedding, she meets Simon, her friend's daring and passionate brother who challenges Angelika's deeply held principles and life beliefs.

The Rail Joint : Can't Stay Faithful To My Husband

A film from "Spring," the fourth group of works from the Love & Eros CINEMA COLLECTION 2nd season. Humorously depicts the emotions of a housewife troubled by her sexless marriage. Homemaker Ryoko (Komatsu Miyuki) is irritated with her husband (Tayama Ryosei), who doesn't help out with household chores or child rearing. Ryoko starts working part-time for fun, and meets aspiring actor Yahata (Kaai Gamo). Having reaffirmed her identity as a woman, Ryoko fans Yahata's delusions about love.

Till Then, Hanna!

Two college friends must split their close bond when one uproots her life. Years later, a sudden reunion could tether their lingering feelings.

The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thrilled Met audiences when it rang in the New Year in 2018. Only weeks later, the production was seen by opera lovers worldwide as part of the Met’s Live in HD series of cinema presentations. In this performance, Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the passionate title diva, opposite charismatic tenor Vittorio Grigolo as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi. Baritone Željko Lučić is the menacing Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police who employs brutal tactics to ensnare both criminals and sexual conquests. On the podium, Emmanuel Villaume conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

Der Lindenbaum

A young woman, Asami, searches for the man who helps her quest to enter medical school.

With Prisoners

After a bar brawl with an off-duty cop, aspiring thug Fan (Neo Yau, Fire Lee’s gonzo Robbery) is sentenced to three months in juvenile detention like Hong Kong’s Sha Tsui Detention Center, which practices military-style rehabilitation. Insults and abuse are core tenets of the treatment, carried out by the bored, jaded staff, where an occasional true believer lingers among the guards...

Lovin' Amsterdam

Young lawyer Max has moved from Kassel to Amsterdam to finally build his own life far away from his parents. The ambitious young lawyer now wants to make a career for himself at a real estate company. There is no time for romance, but Sophie crosses his path. The German, who is perfectly organized in all aspects of life, falls head over heels in love with the chaotic and likeable operator of a snack bar, who lives on a houseboat with her father Johan, sister Marijke and their lesbian friend.

Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen

A lackadaisical youngster falls in love with a girl from whom he’d gotten separated at a younger age. He goes through a slew of unexpected hurdles to win her love.