Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa

Gura Gura(ja)

The second erotica queen! The main character Haruka is played by Reiko Nagaoka, an active gravure idol new actress. Takeyuki Yue, a talented actor who is very active in TV dramas and variety shows, as Haruka’s opponent, Tabata. Midori Ezawa was selected to star in “When I Love You, When I Love You” directed by Takahisa Zeze in the role of her far older sister, Sayaka. The director made his debut as a movie director at the age of 23, and Hidekazu Takahara continues to play an active role in a wide range of fields, from romance movies to bad V-cinema, as well as television, documentary, and music videos. Draws a pure love between a dull man and a pure idol. ――Haruka (Reiko Nagaoka) is active as a mid-sized gravure idol, and the manager suggests that she play a role with a love scene in her starring movie. She’s happy with the movie offer, but much more has a complex in her chest and should she accept it?

Bird Thongchai Concert #1/1988 Kao-Lao Thongchai (Mai-Ngok)(th)

Relive the magic of Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre's captivating performance at Bangkok Youth Center in 1988

Anyplace But Here(en)

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to treat or accept them is the focus of this documentary narrated by Bill Moyers. The dilemma of being as scared of getting well as of remaining ill and facing a world with no home or job to go to is vividly portrayed as the film follows three patients as they move into rare transition programs.

Floor X(de)

An accidental meeting in an elevator at a department store leads two older women to their limits and forces them to improvise by the time the elevator gets stuck.

Circle(en)

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

The Cosmos Conqueror(ko)

Three heroes pilot a giant robot to fight Kaneby's cruel weapons threatening the world.

Invisible(nl)

From schools and offices to hospitals and streets, cleaners are working everywhere, tirelessly and modestly. They work hard and keep society running. Invisible confronts viewers with their own involvement and reveals the price paid for the appearances we cherish.

The Witch Hunters(sr)

Ten-year-old Jovan was born with partial cerebral palsy. Shy, self-conscious and without many friends, he often escapes in his imagination to a place where he is a crime-fighting superhero not limited by his own body. His world shifts when a new girl arrives in his class. Milica, not intimidated by much, chooses the seat next to Jovan and immediately enlists him to help her free her father from his girlfriend, whom she is convinced is a witch who has placed her father under a spell.

Flight of the Bee(tg)

A simple fable about a teacher's quest for justice. The teacher's neighbor not only ogles his wife, but builds an outdoor toilet right beside the teacher's house. When he is refused any legal recourse, the teacher decides to get revenge by building a latrine for the entire village outside his neighbor's house.

No Comment(en)

An anguished star hits his breaking point when a young journalist investigates his complicity in a scandal.

Forajidos en la mira(es)

Gunslinger with a mean rep meets a Marshall who appoints him as deputy and helps him turn over a new leaf.

way(en)

San Francisco filmmaker Konrad Steiner took 12 years to complete a montage cycle set to the late Leslie Scalapino’s most celebrated poem, way—a sprawling book-length odyssey of shardlike urban impressions, fraught with obliquely felt social and sexual tensions. Six stylistically distinctive films for each section of way, using sources ranging from Kodachrome footage of sun-kissed S.F. street scenes to internet clips of the Iraq war to a fragmented Fred Astaire dance number.

Verdugo de callejeras(es)

Freelancer(en)

A glimpse into the world of a freelance artist juggling the compulsion for self-expression and the desperate need to not eat beans for 12 days in a row.

Kim(ja)

Kim belongs to the Korean minority in Japan, the so-called Zainichi. After quitting his career as a professional boxer due to an injury, he has to deal with betting debts, alcoholism and his difficult relationship with his father. Supported by great camera- work, Shunpei SHIMIZU creates an astonishing debut film.

Ballerina Boys(en)

Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years has offered audiences their passion for ballet classics mixed with exuberant comedy. With every step they poke fun at their strictly gendered art form.

More Than Anything in the World(es)

The relationship between beautiful Emilia (Elizabeth Cervantes) and her imaginative young daughter, Alicia, is tested in this understated Mexican drama. Disoriented after moving to a new apartment and left to herself when her mother starts bringing men home, Alicia takes refuge in dreams that soon become nightmares, especially after she begins to fear that her mom has become possessed by the vampirish man next door. With a keen eye for the rhythms and struggles of contemporary Mexican family life, this film illuminates the secret worlds of lonely children while never straying from its true subject: the uncommon love between a single mother and her child.

Leperfuck(en)

A drama about love, loss, and memory for the gorehound crowd. A married woman in 1940's pre-war America must make a difficult decision upon her return home from a missionary position.

PACmen(en)

This observational documentary follows the men behind the Super-PACs that persuaded Dr Ben Carson to run for President. Believing Carson can save the Republican Party, they successfully draft him to run, raise millions of dollars and catapult him to the top of the polls. However, as Carson's political inexperience begins to show, his constant media gaffes make fundraising increasingly difficult. Donors and voters abandon Carson's campaign as wallets close, hearts open and faith is tested. As Trump inexplicably rises, the campaign descends into chaos and the PACmen begin to wonder - did they pick the wrong savior?