The Cinephile

Single8(ja)

Summer 1978. High schooler Kurita is inspired by Star Wars, and films a spaceship scene on a 8mm camera together with his friend Ozawa. When the class is discussing a project for their school festival, Kurita's suggestion to make an SF movie ends up winning. Together with their movie fan classmate Sasaki, the boys start to plan a movie and manage to convince Yamashita, the prettiest girl in class, to star as the heroine. Over the summer vacation, the four shoot their movie, "Time Reverse", where an alien spaceship arrives on Earth to turn back time in order to save mankind from itself.

Cassidy Blues(en)

A Bonnie & Clyde criminal couple rob a movie theater on Christmas Eve, and have time to kill before their train, and escape plan, leaves the station; what's the worst that could happen? Enter the detective pair, Brooks and Candy; one of which is struggling with his recent nicotine kick; their only lead: a pack of mysterious cigarettes called Cassidy Blues.

50ft Or So...(en)

A Cine-Poem. A journey through Paris. A memory film. Three stories, dedicated to one pioneer of cinema.

Cecil B. Demented(en)

A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.

Could You Pick Me Up, Please?(en)

Newly discharged from rehab, Will calls a string of friends and family to pick him up. While he may be ready to move on, those he hurt can’t easily forget the past.

Lurch(ru)

Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lurch…

A Woman Is a Woman(fr)

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

Love at Sea(fr)

During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...

The Married Woman(fr)

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

Empty(en)

Matthew (Steve Verhulst) an older, self-absorbed, boring, travel worker meets Anna (Sofia Sparta) a young, wild, multifaceted artist that is looking to push the boundaries of society for the acceptance of her own work.

Nouvelle Vague(fr)

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

8mm of Distance(es)

Since his father's death, Bruno divides his time between his duties as a student and his love of cinema. When he finds an old super8 camera belonging to his father, he changes his perception of the world in which he lives.

Muriel, or the Time of Return(fr)

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.

Boyfriends and Girlfriends(fr)

Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to know Fabien.

Maree(fr)

A young painter, Léon, spends his days painting and creating art in order to keep up with the uproar of artists in Paris during the 70's. This passion of his slowly begins to sabotage his relationship with his girlfriend Maree. After their separation, he slowly begins to reflect on their relationship and realises that she may have been his most inspiring muse all along.

Boarding(id)

Apip, a teenage cinephile, is forced to go to school in an Islamic boarding school by his mother for being "too free." In his final year, he discovers a golden opportunity: a national short film competition. But rigid school rules stand in his way, forcing Apip to choose between his passion and institutional demands.

Into the Box(en)

What did our parents leave behind for us in the boxes they got from their parents? An artist struggles with what he has gotten in the wake of his mother’s death, and a girl forces him to look inside not only the box but himself.

The First Film(hi)

In a small town of 1960's India, where cinema is forbidden for women, a 14-year-old embarks on a quest to watch her first film.

Regretting You(en)

Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what's left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.

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