The Love Issue

The Proposal Spot(en)

The owner of a café where everyone falls in love could lose everything when a major celeb proposes and gets dumped, so she vows to get him and his would-be fiancée back together, only to wind up falling in love with him herself.

Saving Paradise(en)

A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly bankrupt pencil factory, which is the heart and soul of the depressed community. With the foreclosure deadline looming, he must decide to either let it close, or join the community's fight to save it.

The Girl from Nowhere(fr)

Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.

Born to Gamble(en)

A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.

Homeo(en)

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.

Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones(en)

Using previously unseen performances, a biography of rock balladeer Roy Orbison told through his own voice, casting new light on the triumphs and tragedies that beset his career.

Hi'ya, Chum(en)

Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.

Autumn(ru)

In their youth, they loved each other, but broke up. Ilya got married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to become an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small, deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, while he is married to another, and she has the experience of a failed marriage. For eight days they will be in a remote stop where no one knows them and no one will interfere with love...

Albert Herring(en)

Accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, composer Benjamin Britten's satirical look at life in an English market town delivers plenty of laughs. When Lady Billows (Patricia Johnson) realizes no girls in town are worthy of the May Queen title, she crowns virtuous Albert Herring (John Graham-Hall), the greengrocer's son, as the village's May King. The comic opera features a strong ensemble cast including Alan Opie and Felicity Palmer.

The Walk(en)

Sydney's life is in tatters after a series of painful relationships and she is frustrated with the world. Thanks to a caring youth minister, she is able to reconnect to her faith in God and begins a journey of self-discovery that will restore her faith in humankind.

Aunnerman STAND ALONE(th)

Actor and television personality Prakpoom Jongmunwattana shares hilarious anecdotes about his career and love life in front of a live audience.

The Shadows Grow Longer(de)

The Shadows Grow Longer (German: Die Schatten werden länger) is a 1961 Swiss drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda. The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

Hide(en)

HIDE is a contained psychological thriller about one resilient wife’s (Nadine Malouf) fight to escape her husband’s (Ben Samuels) escalating gaslighting and abuse during lockdown. The female-centric genre film is lensed in the wife’s evolving perspective as she slowly comes to see what is happening to her and finds the support to fight back. Visually mesmerizing and emotionally arresting, the film’s pace and pathos pull us into a story that will feel uncomfortably familiar to too many of us.

Art(pt)

Blow(pl)

Arthur has a girlfriend, they train together in a boxing club, they are 18 years old and go to the same high school. One evening, Ewa confides in him about an affair she once had with an older man. This news has a strong influence on Arthur. During the next training session, he unloads his aggression on her, which starts a game of mutual provocation between them.

Playball(es)

A promising MLB player is forced to return to his country after being found to be using steroids, and the only option he gets to rebuild his life is joining a team of losers in the Dominican league.

Wild Child(en)

Laurie has just made it in Hollywood by landing a role in a TV show. To celebrate, she decides to invite the old gang from high school to her Los Angeles home for a weekend. It's then that she realizes she still has the hots for her old flame Todd.

Kibakichi 2(ja)

The saga of Kibakichi the samurai werewolf continues as his travels find him helping a blind girl and her small village seek revenge on a murdering madman. But, unknown to Kibakichi, he is being spied on by a strange group of people—and someone from his past, who is out for revenge!