Celestial Camel 2015
Nebesnyy verblyud (original title)
1h 30min | Adventure, Family | 9 April 2016 (USA)
Storyline:
When his father sells their baby camel Altynka, his mother, Mara, escapes to be find her calf. Her disappearance is a potential disaster for the family so eldest son, Bayir, takes off to retrieve her. What follows is part road movie, part coming-of-age as Bayr adventures across the Kalmyk steppe.
Coming Home 2015
14min | Short, Drama | 24 May 2015 (USA)
Storyline:
Ivan is a Taiwanese high school student pressured constantly by his mother. He meets Eric, a rebellious exchange student from the U.S., and together they take a road trip down the most dangerous highway in Taiwan, despite Ivan’s mother’s objections. Their trip is cut short when Eric reveals that he must return home after graduation, forcing Ivan to confront his darkest demons.
Presence of Mind 1999
TV-G | 1h 34min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 20 April 2001 (Spain)
Storyline:
Henry James’ classic tale of terror, “The Turn of the Screw” receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella Jones). She is hired by their uncle, the Master (Harvey Keitel), who became the guardian of the youngsters after the death of their parents. While the governess is initially enthusiastic about her job, Miles and Flora soon prove to be quite a handful, and the housekeeper Mrs. Grose (Lauren Bacall), who oversees most of the activities at the Master’s estate, is openly antagonistic to her. Before long, the governess discovers the house bears a dark secret involving Miss Jessel (Dayne Danika), the previous governess, and Fosc (Agusti Villaronga), the Master’s former valet. El Celo was the first feature from Director Antoni Aloy.
Los Placeres Ocultos 1977
Los Placeres Ocultos 1977
1h 35min | Drama | April 1986 (USA)
Storyline:
A closeted banker, middle-aged and successful, falls madly in love with a poor but handsome 18-year-old student with devastating consequences for the young man. An updating of Death in Venice.
Wittgenstein 1993
1h 12min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 17 September 1993 (USA)
Storyline:
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
All Yours 2014
All Yours 2014
Je suis à toi (original title)
Unrated | 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 26 November 2014 (Belgium)
Storyline:
Lucas, a poor young Argentinean, does all he can to survive in Buenos Aires. On the internet, he meets Henry, a Belgian baker who suffers from loneliness and who dreams of saving him from prostitution. Lucas crosses the Atlantic and arrives in a small village in Belgium to become Henry’s apprentice, but he soon feels like a prisoner. Audrey, the bakery saleswoman, has everything to please him, but she refuses to.
The Cormorants 2016
The Cormorants 2016
I cormorani (original title)
1h 29min | Adventure | 1 December 2016 (Italy)
Storyline:
In the summer of their twelfth year Matteo and Samuele spend their days between the river, the forest and the shopping center, but compared to previous years, something is changing. The game becomes boring, imagination gives way to discovery, adventure turns into life experience. A summer without beginning and without end, the story about a friendship, an age and a land which are obliged to change with the inexorable passage of time.
The Lives We Lead 2015
The Lives We Lead 2015
Unrated | 1h 55min | Drama | 13 October 2015 (USA)
Storyline:
Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.
One Step Behind the Seraphim 2017
One Step Behind the Seraphim 2017
2h 30min | Drama | 22 September 2017 (Romania)
Storyline:
A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that’s not the way one’s life should be lead.
