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Reel Bad Arabs

  Reel Bad Arabs takes a devastating tour of the American cinematic landscape, moving from the earliest days of silent film to today’s biggest Hollywood blockbusters to reveal an astonishing Read More

Spiderweb

  Spiderweb is a British short film directed by National Film and Television School graduate Paul Miller. It is a fairly faithful adaptation of “Death and the Compass”, a 1942 Read More

Princess Yang Kwei Fei

  In eighth-century China, the emperor (Masayuki Mori) mourns the loss of his wife. The opportunistic Yang family offers a distant cousin as a concubine in hopes of gaining influence Read More

Okoge

  A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.  It is about a young woman fascinated by gay Read More

Good Morning

  A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after Read More

Twenty-Four Eyes

  Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, despite the fact that she knows full well that Read More

Max, My Love

  Peter is a British diplomat posted in Paris. He is told by a detective that his wife, Margaret, has rented a flat in which she spends quite a few Read More

Maborosi

  Yumiko and Ikuo are a young Osaka couple who have a new baby. One day Ikuo is walking along the railway tracks and is hit and killed by a Read More

The Lower Depths

  Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Read More

Late Chrysanthemums

  Late Chrysanthemums interweaves the lives of four retired geisha in Tokyo over a period of four successive days. Kin, the first of the geisha, is a moneylender and a Read More