Of Masquerade and Rhymes

Life And The Art Of Lying(en)

A free-spirited compulsive liar struggles to connect honestly with the love of her life when devastating news drives her to pursue a renegade solution.

Unconditional(en)

Hope and Amy have been through it all just like any other couple. But, can Amy lean on her unconditional love as Hope battles with the hardest decision of her life?

Keep On(en)

Based on a song by Sheila Houlahan, but reworked and re-recorded to include her poetry, KEEP ON is a story about connection and belonging -- not with others, but with ourselves. What do you wish you tell your younger self? How would you hold them, that person who seems both so far away and so close? How would you convince them that they're not defined by their pain? Keep caring, keep feeling, keep fighting -- #keepon.

Blue Cow(en)

When his business partner retires, an overly-attentive cafe owner, embraces the challenge of working solo.

When Harri Met Salma(en)

A Muslim woman torn between two worlds defies family expectations to take charge of her life.

Bush and Swamp(ko)

Night Milk(en)

A lesbian couple have a confrontational sleepover.

CUBS(id)

CUBS is set in a corrupt gold-mining town and delves into the complex moral struggles of a young boy.

Happy People(ja)

A 3-episode omnibus based on a popular manga. A movie version was released the following year.

Love My Whole Body(ko)

From the Dead(sv)

A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.

The Story of Chunhyang(ko)

The Commitment(zh)

In the mountains of Guizhou, quarry owner Yu goes to inform a woman, Maizi, that her husband is in a coma after a quarry accident. But Yu is attracted to the sensual, hardheaded Maizi, and concocts a story to make her think she is indebted to him. The entanglements that follow evoke some of the painful impacts of China's modernization.

Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler(ja)

Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.

Wild(en)

A wild young woman drives the mysterious Cheng into the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman. The passion between the two lovers escalates in tandem with the violence around them, as events take their own inexorable course.

Doris(nl)

On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.

Stain on the Snow(fr)

La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.

Pure White Nights(ja)

"Pure White Nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.