Francine, Est-Ouest

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Isao Takahata

Cast

Miki Imai, Yoko Honna, Yōko Honna

This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are hung, secrets are revealed and family bonds are tested. As their lives converge, they join to...

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Preston A. Whitmore II

Cast

Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba, Loretta Devine

A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followe...

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Katsuhito Ishii

Cast

Maya Suzuno, Takahiro Sato, Tadanobu Asano

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden Joh...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

James Hill

Cast

Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the ...

Runtime

41m

Director

Albert Lamorisse

Cast

Alain Emery, Laurent Roche, Pascal Lamorisse