Yukiko

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
1953-01-15
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7.4During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
7.6An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
0.0A quiet morning gives rise to a cyclical story of letdowns. The lives of a flower seller, a heartbroken man, a petty thief, and a weary boat man intertwine in an undercurrent of chaos, longing and loss. Though strangers to one another, their lives are unknowingly bound by a bundle of flowers.
5.0Ratna is married off into a rich family and leads a happy existence with her husband. But the doings of a relative and her husband's tragic death push her down a road full of trials and tribulations.
6.4A young mother to her son, Siti has to find ways and means to care for the boy, her husband and her mother-in-law. By day, she sells snacks; by night, she works as a karaoke guide. Tainted by her nighttime employment, Siti finds her husband no longer wishes to speak to her.
This short film follows Nick as he returns for his second year of university after suffering heartbreak three months prior.
7.0Daniel is the lead actor in a mafia film. He's about to shoot the pivotal scene: his father's death. His emotional preparation will plunge him into childhood memories and impact his own life.
0.0A film with very little dialogue. Set in the Catskills of 1896 – 1916, a farmer buries his deceased wife atop a nearby mountain, then makes the difficult decision to give up his newborn son, Jonathan. Later in 1916, Jonathan returns to confront his past. The only real dialogue is a voice over of the father reading a letter he wrote to his son explaining himself.
0.0Danaji, a farmer from the state of Maharashtra in rural India, is accompanied by his eight-year old son Ganya to the city to sell his onions at the Mandi (market). While the child is enamoured by the sights and sounds of the place, the farmer has to fight a Kafkaesque battle to find the right price for his produce.
5.9The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbing portrait of a lonely woman.
0.0Based in Jacksonville, Oregon in the year 1992, life changes for the worst. People start going crazy, violent, cannibalistic, tearing the world apart. We follow Erin, a quiet young teenager through a post-apocalyptic world. Facing struggles not even your worst enemy should face. Mystery and menace have taken control of their lives. From getting ripped apart, broken down, hurt and scared. Erin and Jacob always find their way back to each other.
6.1Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.
7.2Jack is born with his heart frozen solid on the coldest day in history. A wise midwife saves him by replacing it with a cuckoo clock. Now Jack must abide by three rules to keep his mechanical heart safe: never touch the clock's hands, master his anger, and never fall in love. He tries his best, but when he meets a girl named Acacia he falls in love, threatening the delicate balance of his artificial heart.
8.0Keke is a young girl with a loving father and mother, as well as loyal friends. She is diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma (a cancer of connective tissues), which is unusual at her age. After undergoing twenty-five sessions of chemotherapy, the once healthy and beautiful Keke finds herself sickly and bald, with a disfigured face. Although the treatment initially works, the cancer returns a year later. Doctors estimate that Keke has three months to live. To help her deal with her pain, she begins keeping a diary; through her writing she finds the strength to hold on for a year. As she begins to accept her fate, she writes a letter to God in her diary, asking that her family be kept safe.
0.0A baby polar bear searches for his missing mother, while a force much colder than the frozen tundra searches for him.
9.0Theo and Louis, two gay gentlemen, embark on a train journey to Paxmal. They are carrying an urn - it is the last journey for a friend. On their way deep into the Swiss Alps the two men, struggling with their fate, meet various people. While some of these people remind Theo and Louis again of the beautiful things in life, others confront them with ghosts from the past.
10.0Sent spiraling after the unexpected discovery of his girlfriend's suicide, Liam sifts through the memories of their relationship that he now must reinterpret.
10.0In this short film the director reflects on the feeling of being on the wrong path in your life, that you have no control over your own life. But coming to the conclusion, it's life, we all go through it, and without these moments of fall we don't learn to live.
0.0Oliver doesn't know how to deal with the fact that he is not with the girl he loves. So in desperation for coping with his feelings he starts to write letters in which he describes all the feelings and thoughts that he's trying to bury deep down.