Manila in the Claws of Light

A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Lino Brocka

Cast

Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Ruel Vernal

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, where all kind of perils lurk in every corner, Oscar catches a lucky break when he is offered a steady work for an armored truck company an...

Runtime

2h

Director

Sean Ellis

Cast

Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Matt Damon, Cécile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Hong Khaou

Cast

Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Andrew Leung

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie Greg. When Heather, a beautiful girl from Chicago, starts hanging out with King and his crew, it changes the dynamic of...

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Marc Rocco

Cast

Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson

Ida's friend Miriam visits the school for three months, but a secret threatens to tear them apart. Miriam is entrusted with the tarsier Fitzgeraldo, while Max, deeply in love, is given the owl Muriel. Meanwhile, the sale of the school is imminent, and the future of the magical community is in peril.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Bernhard Jasper, Maggie Peren

Cast

Emilia Maier, Loris Sichrovsky, Marleen Lohse

After years working as a border patrolman, José has developed a salty crust of cynicism about his work, which places him in a position to decide the fates of many. José's weary attitude is put to the test when he encounters Nathalie, a German tourist assisting a boatload of refugees she discovered landing on the Canary shores. One of t...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Maggie Peren

Cast

Álex González, Hubert Koundé, Nathalie Poza

Director

Maggie Peren

Cast

Karoline Herfurth, Julia Jentsch, Emilia Maier