

Filmed on Super 8 in Paris, Portrait de Rosa, à la française portrays an intimate love story through quiet images and gentle emotion.
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Filmed on Super 8 in Paris, Portrait de Rosa, à la française portrays an intimate love story through quiet images and gentle emotion.
2021-06-18
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And I left it all without you having the slightest hunch.
7.7Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
6.3A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
6.9In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.
5.9The innocent Célène might be falling in love with popular surfer Tristan at her new school. But she has no idea that, in actuality, she’s the object of a cruel bet between Tristan and Instagram influencer Vanessa.
6.4When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
5.9A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.
8.4The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
7.3A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
6.1Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
6.7Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
6.5A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.
6.3A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
7.3Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
6.5Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
6.8Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
6.2A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
7.1After leaving his prestigious post at the University of Toronto, Gabriel embarks on a new journey with Julia, and he is eager to become a father. However, Gabriel's idyllic vision is jeopardized when Julia's intensive program becomes all consuming. When Julia is granted a prestigious opportunity to deliver an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel challenges her about the subject of her presentation, which clashes with his own research. In Oxford, their past resurfaces, including an old nemesis determined to humiliate Julia and expose one of Gabriel's well-guarded secrets. Emotions run high, alliances are tested, and the couple must confront the shadows of their shared history in a battle for love, truth, and redemption.
6.3Dating within different cultures and being open to all religions, Ethan must deal with constant roadblocks. From First Nations to South American, his journey to find love in Toronto is nothing but complex. He faces discrimination and depression but always remains optimistic.
8.2A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
0.0An awkward boy and a shy girl meet on a bench, what awaits is a night they will remember forever.
0.0Two star-crossed friends escape to the woods for one night in an attempt to find their way back to one another.
0.0A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.
0.0A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.
Fede is a theater actress who, while putting on clown make-up for a show, thinks back to her relationship with her father: a relationship of tenderness, desire and hatred.
0.0Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.
0.0Maya excitedly leans into the joy of her first queer relationship, but must confront the seemingly never-ending sexualisation of her identity
10.0The process of depersonalization maintains a dialogue with the objectification of the body, a sort of thingified flesh, clothed in animosity. In an epiphanic act, the sutures reveal themselves as the reflection of this gaze upon its own spilled fluids and transcend into an internal soup. It is the stream of consciousness in its purest form. It is the raw and the bare. It is the visceral nature of facts. It is the merging of worlds. It is the flesh in turmoil.
10.0fragments from song lyrics of different artists have given life to this story about love, loss and desperation.
0.0A young woman is on the verge of committing suicide when things take an unexpected turn.
A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.
0.0Ahmet, a Turkish guy in his early twenties visit his grandfather's abandoned mansion located somewhere in the northern Anatolia. Thinking that he would return to where he spent his early childhood, only to find out that the place is now in ruins. When he goes to sleep. An unexpected angel will visit him to give her a blessing of the truth. He wakes up being not the guy he was before.
8.5Speak To Me Of What I Know is a short experimental film shot on a Super8. The idea of lack of communication is expressed through an intimate relationship, more specifically the men of the film. The themes of miscommunication develop throughout the film in many ways, even the slightest details are there with the explicit goal of adding to the main message. Pay attention to as much as you can, and build your idea of what it's all about. It remains up to interpretation.
6.0It’s the year 1990. America is on the verge of another Great Depression. A Hitler-like President puts into action his mad scheme to wipe out the federal deficit by dispatching extermination squads. Can the terribly violent genocide be stopped before all non-conformists are destroyed?
0.0According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.
0.0A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.
0.0La signora Aetna, (Etna), is bored and boredom can be a dangerous thing for those around you when you are a volcanic goddess.