Thousand Yard Stare

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

Runtime

1h 45m

Cast

Gustavo Belatti, Gabriel Rovito, Leandro Regúnaga

The time is the summer of 1982, and the Falklands war is at hand when the young "Argie" follows a British woman home and is stopped from raping her only because she starts to speak to him in Spanish, soon they enter into an ambivalent relationship, undecided as to whether they love or hate each other, or both. They end up on the street...

Runtime

1h 11m

Director

Jorge Blanco

Cast

Christine Plisson, Christine von Schreitter, Ella Blanco

Osanai Kei enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Osanai Kozue and daughter Osanai Ruri, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Osanai Kei's life suddenly changes. One day, a man named Misumi Akihiko visits Osanai Kei. Misumi Akihiko tells him that on the day Osanai Kozue and Osanai Ruri died, Osanai Ruri, who was a com...

Runtime

2h 8m

Cast

Yo Oizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Ren Meguro

Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as his disciple. However, Kozan's niece is dismissive of Sousuke and declares t...

Runtime

1h 47m

Cast

Ryusei Yokohama, Kaya Kiyohara, Kanata Hosoda

Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.

Runtime

1h 45m

Cast

Sadao Abe, Denden, Jun Kunimura