Gradiva: Esquisse I

A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Anne Fontaine

Cast

Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar

Datho has been innocent in prison for many years. When he comes home nobody wants him. His angelic wife Elene has fun with a fire-eater. The two children imagined the father as a hero, not as a sorrowful knight. But everything changes when Datho can freeze his enemies in the bathtub or he calls for rain so that they remain stuck in the...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Nana Jorjadze

Cast

Merab Ninidze, Anja Antonowicz, Chulpan Khamatova

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fi...

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Cast

Noémie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel

Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of ...

Runtime

1h 22m

Director

Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret

Cast

Sarah Adler, Shosha Goren, Tsipor Aizen

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa