Zest(2023)

Hydrozoa(fr)

Hello & Goodbye(en)

With wounds still open from the recent end of their long-term relationship, Drew and Beth meet up for dinner to explore their newfound station as “just friends” only to discover they never really knew each other at all.

Hello Again(en)

A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.

People(fr)

People is a film shot behind closed doors in a workshop/house on the outskirts of Paris and features a dozen characters. It is based on an interweaving of scenes of moaning and sex. The house is the characters' common space, but the question of ownership is distended, they don't all inhabit it in the same way. As the sequences progress, we don't find the same characters but the same interdependent relationships. Through the alternation between lament and sexuality, physical and verbal communication are put on the same level. The film then deconstructs, through its repetitive structure, our relational myths.

Emil and the Piglet(sv)

Nursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.

Haba(tl)

Two parallel lives: a young man who has no interest in finding a job and a young gay man who tries to make his poor living condition a happy place to be.

Shadows and Fog(en)

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Surprise Attack on a House at Daybreak(xx)

Soldiers ambush a house.

Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation - Stargazer(ja)

While Rena and Maki recover from their injuries, the other SORD members jet off overseas for a school trip. Within moments of their arrival, though, the Mihama gang are pulled into a manhunt for a SORD deserter, assisted by student Sylvia and Velvet of St. Aile's International School. Tohka's the star of the show this time round, but she's wrestling with her own issues - old memories of her parents, and a promise to a friend that she wasn't able to keep...

Metropolitan(en)

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

Cincinnati's Rock 'N Roll Legends(en)

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Rock Legends" "James Brown" "King Records" "Pure Prairie League" "Lemon Pipers" "Syd Nathan" WEBN "Bootsy Collins" "Lonnie Mack" "The Who concert 1979" "Rick Derringer"

Mr. Arkadin(en)

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

Parasit(de)

A woman is chained to a factory rooftop. A man offers to rescue her. Things are not always what they seem.

Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo(fr)

Six Reasons Why(en)

In a desolate place called the Badlands, four men stand off with guns drawn, their fingers ready at the trigger. Among them are a fugitive seeking redemption, a son out to avenge his father's murder, a loyal servant with a secret and a murderous criminal hired to kill with a vengeance. This is their story...in a place where revenge, deception and cruelty are a way of life.

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum(ja)

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

The Society Raffles(en)

A man in black tie and tails enters a high-society parlor where a settee sits beneath an open window. He goes to the window and gestures to someone. From outside, a man in a burglar's outfit (watch cap, wide striped shirt, and dark jacket) appears and gets his instructions from the man in tails. A woman wearing a jeweled tiara enters with a second man who leaves her in the company of our mastermind. He sits her on the settee, chats her up, leaning toward her with one arm curling behind her head.

Mick Mondo's 99 Nightmares(en)

A delinquent tomboy takes the job of a murderous carney's assistant.

T!8 (Part 1)(en)

The perplexity of time disturbs a young woman's psyche as her wristwatch never stops ticking.

The Orange(en)

The Orange is a drama about a lonely man reliving the night he met his soulmate.

Orange(en)

A sad young man, faced with the death of a loved one, is faced with a ghostly being that leads him on an unexpected journey.

Orange Business(th)

On Chinese New Year, a girl questioned the size of her orange.

Act One: Live from Lincoln Center(en)

James Lapine's tribute to a life in the theater based on Moss Hart's autobiography of the same name, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. The play, narrated by an older Moss Hart, traces his life from being poor in The Bronx to becoming famous and successful as a Broadway writer and director.

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.

Go Back to China(en)

When party girl Sasha Li blows through most of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.

Quality Control(fr)

Pip's Predicament: A Pop-Up Adventure(en)

Tattoo(ja)

A gang of men target a manager’s daughter but kidnap the wrong woman. Her life becomes an even greater hell when they tattoo her and find they can’t even sell her off to the yakuza.

Kizi mizi(pl)

A moody love story featuring a cat and mouse. Even if we are lucky enough to love and be loved, deep down we remain a bit lonely. The film talks about how dearly we have to pay for our inability to endure this loneliness. About the fact that we must take care of love carefully, because returning to a loved one may prove impossible, even if there is a glowing longing on both sides. A broken diamond can no longer be glued together.

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse(en)

The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her.

Tick Tack(xx)

Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.

Temptation(en)

Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money Julian needs but is saved from sacrificing her virtue when a jealous lover kills Mueller.

Maria Rosa(en)

Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten years. Maria will wait for him, but Ramon convinces her Andreas dies in prison so she agrees to marry him. On their wedding day Ramon is paroled. Maria then stabs Ramon.

The Game(fr)

Pleasure in the Mirror(ja)

A young college student discovers a hidden two way mirror in a closet that looks into a bathroom. Nightly he watches his cruel older brother sexually abuse his wife. He wants to protect her but he also begins to lust after her body. How far is he willing to go?

The Machine-Men(fr)

Saikin Chouchou wa...(ja)

Based on Shungicu Uchida's manga of the same name, which features themes of occultism and multiple personalities.