
At her first audition, a young woman is asked by the casting director to talk about what is inside her handbag.
1993-10-29
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6.7An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
5.9A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise.
5.9A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and social graces erode when the questions turn personal and the true nature of the interview is called into question.
5.9Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own deeply troubled past.
5.9A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgotten ones... Filming everything, with or without their consent, the director gets caught up in the game and lets herself be devoured by these women, who are as fragile as they are manipulative.
6.1In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
7.1A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
6.1A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
7.1A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
7.31985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris in a middle-class family, between a distant older brother and parents in constant conflict. Although he is no longer a child and not yet an adult, the film follows his reflections and doubts about identity, friendship, family, and his questions about religion, desire, and love.
5.8Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. The people around her believe this to be a temporary joke, but Chiara is determined not to give up her new identity…
6.5Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
6.8Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
7.6Wael, a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique. When this unconventional duo swindles the wrong guy, Victor, an old acquaintance of Monique now in charge of a support organization for troubled teens, they have no choice but to become his interim secretary and educator in order to redeem themselves.
6.7A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
7.2When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
6.3A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
6.2A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
8.0A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.
0.0The girl talks to the boy about her fear of suicide and then laughs. She tells him she loves him. The girl and the boy run as if the only way out was to get lost in the night -among trees, cobble stones, karaokes- and never go back home.
0.0A mafia member is late on repaying his debts, The Contractor comes to collect
0.0A Woman Watches People.
0.0A young man and his kid sister go shopping for his Valentine.
5.7A man breaks into a flat, startling the occupant. They argue about the new girlfriend of the 'burglar', who's come to get her stuff. Then a third man bursts out of the cupboard...
0.0A distant boy and a disturbed girl discover a blue tongue nest, but not all is as it appears.
6.8After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
7.1Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.
6.3Whistle depicts the dreary off-hours of an ultra-technological hit-man who becomes 'involved' in the life of one of his victims. The hit-man's wife is not only fully cognizant of her husband's day job but she is also the cold-blooded contact with his bosses when the conscience crisis sets in!
A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, an aging transvestite.
7.2The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
7.6A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.
7.3A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.
0.0In an effort to forget his dead wife, an old man drowning in his memories decides, with the help of a young scavenger, to get rid of all the items of the home he formed with her.
6.0Thijs, Tobias, Sjeng, and Tarik break into a house and steal a multitude of their school exams for profit. But in time, as their gain notoriety, the jig is up! But will all four go down, will there be consequences, and will that be all that happens to these rambunctious four young men?
1.0Two new dads are putting their newly adopted newborn son to sleep when something unexpected happens...
5.0Caroline can't stand that she is a virgin...and then the world ends. In post-apocalyptic LA, after a dust storm has wiped out the planet, she is convinced that Francis was sent as the man to pop her cherry. YOYO is a heartfelt, dark comedy about finding meaning in life, even when life ceases to exist.