Angel
Troy
New Reader
'Cowboy' Troy is a mute child who lives with his alcoholic father in an isolated cabin. His Spaghetti Western fantasies come to life when he encounters Angel, an outlaw on the run from her psycho partner, Kane. Can Troy and Angel's unlikely partnership help them escape their tormentors?
2016-01-01
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0.0John is consumed by guilt after a reckless act that results in the death of his best friend, Isaac. Everyone in the town is wary of him, and Isaac’s younger brother attacks him, goaded on by his friends. It is only through reconciliation with the younger brother, however, that both he and John can process their grief and move on.
0.0Alan’s jealousy drives him to foil his friend’s relationship and wrestle with where his passions really lie.
1.0“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.
7.3During the busy run-up to Christmas, a single-take snapshot of the immense stress and skills of a talented head chef reveals that things are about to burst behind the restaurant's flash façade.
0.0The film tells the story of two blind men who stand on the side of a road between oil wells and beg, and the conflict between them. The young blind man, who was born blind, sees the old blind man, who later lost his sight, as his rival. Each blind man represents a large crowd in himself.
7.9A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
4.8Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?
0.0Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burglary to provide for his daughter. The narrative unfolds through the varied viewpoints of those touched by his actions.
In the woods, a young woman and man scuffle as they fight for life. Gently lit and accompanied with a soundtrack of soaring strings, this film by Jessie Oldfield and Adam Murfet explores vulnerability, connectedness and a renewed sense of self among the autumn leaves.
0.0Impressively shot over an 18-month period, Giants documents the changing drought-ridden landscape – from green to yellow to a Mars-like brown-red dust – from the perspective of one farmer, who risks losing everything as he holds fast to remain on his land.
0.0A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare.