Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray(2024)

Anita Liberty(en)

Anita's boyfriend Mitchell dumped her after 3.5 years for Heather. All she can think about is humiliating him, mostly in poems that are bitter, banal, and hilarious.

Cyril contre Goliath(fr)

Cyril, a Parisian writer, never imagined that Lacoste, the village of his childhood, could one day be privatized by the billionaire Pierre Cardin. Pushed by his son and when nothing intended him for that, he decided to take action against this takeover of a new kind and began a real showdown with the famous fashion designer.

Amnesia Love(tl)

A guy is trying to discover his true identity after being found unconscious in a remote island.

My name is Enric Marco(es)

Enric Marco, ex-president of the Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demythologising journey into his past. Two years earlier, a historian had shown that Enric Marco wasn’t the member of the Resistance he had claimed to be, and that he’d made up the stories of his experiences in a concentration camp that he had been recounting on television for years. Now, Marco retraces the route of his 1941 train journey as part of a convoy of workers sent by Franco to Hitler, in the middle of the Second World War.

The End of the Journey(nl)

A 40-year-old mother struggles to deal with the anxiety of growing older after her eldest daughter moves out and the youngest distances herself.

Stagefright(en)

An essay-film on language and theater, on human communication - intellectual in content, but purely poetic in terms of form: image, sound, language, cinema. Stagefright, with the exception of one shot, was all filmed in a small puppet theater space, actors against black.

Aridhu Aridhu(ta)

Aridhu Aridhu is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by K. R. Mathivanan, an assistant of director Shankar, directing his maiden venture. The movie is produced by Jaya Krishnan under the banner name of JK Creations. The movie lead cast includes Harish Kalyan and Uttara Raj both making their debuts. Thaman has scored the music under the audio label of Five Star Audios.

ANTE NTE(el)

The "good vibes only" freshman Mitsos, the "stuck with her parents" 25-year-old Sofia and the "no strings attached" 30-year-old Dimitra. A Saturday night when none knows if they’re ready for the next step.

1+2=Paradise(ja)

Yuusuke Yamamoto has a crippling phobia of women, and understandably so—the twin girls living next door tried to cut off his penis as a child. Unfortunately, Yuusuke's father is a gynecologist and needs him to overcome his fear so he can inherit the family business. To accomplish this, Yuusuke's father offers sanctuary to sisters Rika and Yuka Nakamura in their home while the girls are studying at the nearby college. In a terrible twist of fate, when Yuusuke realizes that their guest room is too small for two people, he is forced to choose which of the sisters is allowed to stay. Desperate to win his favor, the brazen Yuka and the more reserved Rika are willing to do whatever it takes to impress and eventually sway Yuusuke—even if it means making things physical and personal. This two-episode OVA, 28 minutes per episode, is a seinen anime (typically targeted toward an older audience), which in addition to the harem genre is an ecchi comedy romance.

Uncut Family(en)

The life of a boy in his adolescence takes a turn when his relationship with his mother and father is exposed

Golden Child(en)

A young woman is reunited with her childhood friend at a pool party and reckons with the fact that he used to pee on her when they were kids.

Die Legende der Maske(de)

Shelf Life(en)

Amidst an impending climate-accelerated apocalypse, dyke delivery driver Golda drops off strange packages to survivors in denial who seek pleasure, trivia, and meaning in their final days. Before the decaying sun sets, she’ll convene new friends, allow herself to fall in love, and uncover the bizarre satisfaction in acquiescing to doom.

Christopher Ford Sees a Film(en)

What would you do if you saw a terrible film and your name was Christopher Ford?

Lovers on Borders(pt)

Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.

Eternal Bond(th)

Amidst the turmoil and betrayal of the Greater East Asia War, divine vengeance arises more ruthless than the fires of war. Fate brings them together, unveiling a chilling murder mystery far more terrifying than any human deed. The legend of the Eastern Naga King is about to unfold!

The Iron Lady(ta)

Black Hair Velvet Soul(ja)

A drunk husband has a gambling compulsion that ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife’s restaurant in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs. But it’s not enough. The wife has to sacrifice her body as well.

Electroma(xx)

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

The Doom Generation(en)

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A(ja)

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

The Aerial(es)

An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants.

Phroso(en)

An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the islanders, supported by an adventurer who desires Phroso, rise against the new master. The English are saved by the British governor, also under the spell of gorgeous Phroso. The latter, for her part, is not wholly insensitive to Lord Wheatley's distinction. The imbroglio still worsens with the meddling of a dark horse : the neighboring sultan.

Battleship Potemkin(ru)

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

Nanook of the North(en)

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)(ru)

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

Die Buddenbrooks(de)

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.

Atrophy(en)

In the wake of his worsening illness, Silas leaves his significant other one night and hitchhikes West, encountering increasingly eccentric characters, and moving experiences.

La Tragique Aventure de Robert le Taciturne, duc d'Aquitaine(fr)

It's Not Me(fr)

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

The Illiac Passion(en)

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

Kejsaren(sv)

Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.

Swain(en)

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.

Souls from the Coast(es)

The plot revolves around a love triangle: Nela, the lead character, falls in love with Jorge, who in turn is seduced by Clarisa, the daughter of a doctor who treats Nela's tuberculosis.

The Price She Paid(en)

Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemuel Sidall (William Welsh), a wealthy man she loathes.

El horrible ser nunca visto(es)

A young woman who lives with her uncle begins to dream about a monster that lurks in the shadows of the night.

A Burglar’s Mistake(en)

Henry is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer breaks into his house, Henry apprehends him at gunpoint and takes the opportunity to rid himself of the blackmailer's threat.

Merry Christmas Mr. Mo(ko)

Mo Geum-san is a barber living in the rural area, who once aspired to be an actor. He starts to have doubts about his humdrum life after the village health center advises him to be examined at a larger hospital. He comes up with a plan to give a gift to his beloved ones in the coming Christmas. The plan is to invite everyone to the local culture center and to screen his self-made comedy movie based on his own tragic life.