Cinematic Era: 2022 Vintage

Overworked and lonely, a devoted old woman caring for her ailing husband attempts to take a much needed break from reality.

Billy Upton, a proudly bougie, deaf, and gay man, finally meets his match in love. But will his bougie ways ruin it all?

A group of students trained in the special school for the art college entrance examination.

The Future Circular Collider is the machine of the future. Thanks to it, we will finally be able to go back in time to the origin of our universe. But which way do we go to set up the largest scientific instrument of all time? Between metaphysics and underground tunnels, a story of the preparations or how men are ready to move mountains for more knowledge.

Kanto, a small time drug dealer trying to get off the streets whose long absent father Cormac, an industrial school survivor, returns home looking for forgiveness and reconciliation.

What do you do when love simply isn’t on the cards and keeps passing you by? 60-year-old Kristýna has lost her last ray of hope, so she goes off with her daughter Sára to talk to a fortune-teller about her sorry lot in life. One year on from Mirrors in the Dark, Šimon Holý brings us another wholly independent film about life’s traumas as seen from a female perspective, this time with a liberal dose of esoterica on top.

Two people, one restaurant, some preconceptions and a bit of fish.

Kaan, who volunteers at the Dreams Academy, where disabled children receive education, lives in Kaş with his brother. When the director of the academy finds himself in trouble due to his debt, he and his friends who come to the city on holiday try to protect the academy against the danger of closure.

In 1965, Indonesian artist Amrus Natalsya was one of the many artists arrested during the violent purge of communists and their sympathisers, after the failed coup by the September 30th Movement. Natalsya was released in 1973.

Nothing is for forever. And people make mistakes. And yet, letting go is the hardest challenge when you're burning with love for the first time and want nothing more than to hold on to it forever. But can you feel as intensely forever as you did in the beginning? Così fan tutte in Benedict Andrews’s new production deals with the exuberant feelings that drive young love in the rush of hormones. Sometimes it touches the fringes of human relationships, where one threatens to lose oneself in the search for intensity. Thus the two young couples, who think they have already discovered the essence of true love, meet two experienced counterparts in Don Alfonso and Despina. An experiment begins in which the men put the fidelity of their partners to the test by playing a game of disguise. What remains is disillusionment. And the possibility of a painful realization: only freedom and the longing for union are certain. Disappointment and rejection are part of the game – because no love is ideal.

A reunion between 4 friends quickly goes awry when they find themselves face to face with Erzulie the swamp mermaid goddess.

A city man receives a call from the woman he loved and embarks on a clandestine journey to reunite with her in an outlaw community settled on the top of a mountain. Two successive guides take him to his destination: the reunion with a story that he has not been able to forget.

Oliver, former European champion in the decathlon, came out after the end of his sporting career and divorced his wife Carolin. Since then he has had little connection to his 15-year-old daughter Alma. Oliver now lives in Hamburg with Felix, the owner of an outdoor shop. When Oliver's ex-wife dies after a car accident, Alma moves in with them at the request of her aunt Franziska. Full of mistrust of her homosexual father, the traumatized girl tries to initiate conflicts between Oliver and Felix and to break them up. Alma's friend Johannes also has reservations about gays. His family provides Alma with emotional support. Because Felix also shows a lot of understanding for Alma's needs, Oliver gets caught between the fronts.

A short film by Snoop Dogg

Akshay, an engineering student, does everything on impulse, falls for Kavya (a bright medico) at first sight. Due to an incident in her college, Kavya decides to begin a live-in relationship with Akshay. Her classmate Vikram (Vikram Saahidev), who admires her, vows not to remain silent.

About the legendary Mexican band, Los Tigres del Norte, and the historical and controversial themes that they approach in several of their most representative corridos. The brothers Hernández and Óscar Lara open in front of the cameras and tell us about the birth and development of their group.

An experimental short film made as part of a multi-media triptych, originally screened alongside a fashion collection and an art-installation. Drawing from Papa Yorick’s (Director and fashion designer) thesis “Men Are My Cumrag”, the film reenacts eight mainstay gay porn scripts, incorporating and parodying tropes and clichés, that explore masculine identities within the gay porn industry, through a satirical and critical lens.

One woman's unshakable connection to the JFK assassination continues to haunt her fifty years later.

A married businessman and his search for his old love and decides to marry her, which causes his life to change drastically.

A Japanese/English crime drama set in a near-future Japan where diversity is already a norm. It is made to advocate diversity in the Japanese film/TV industries where minority actors have virtually no representation. Starring openly transgender actress Kota Ishijima, openly lesbian actress Ami Ide, and Afro-Japanese actress Ema Grace.

A woman discovers the gentleman she's been having an affair with is in fact a homeless con-artist.

In a world where parents no longer spend enough time with their children, they will do anything to regain this precious time. The five friends, Maria, Ioana, Mihai, Radu and Andrei, will set off on a glamorous adventure where, together with their new friends from a fantasy world of the past, Ain and Ara, they will cleverly achieve their goal.

Sakkir and his wife, Latifa, face a wave of anger from the community because of a movie that goes against their expectations. Instead of confronting the ideological society, he decides to go back in time by using the marbles, here he enters an endless loop of trying to please the society.

As a new employee, the young male architect didn't go on an outing with other employees. He then comes up with an idea by throwing a Christmas party and so the chaos begins.

A young British Chinese woman goes for dim sum with her family. Unable to speak the same language as much of her family, she both participates in, and observes, the action.

In a Kingdom where the monarch is increasing control onto its citizens, two friends share a bittersweet goodbye.

We’ve all received scam phone calls, but what about the person making the calls? Cruise is a dark workplace satire about a hapless telemarketer trying mightily to give away a free cruise. And if he fails, there will be dire consequences.

Six friends from New York City vacationing at a historic mansion in Europe release an ancient witch from her slumber, awakening her centuries old thirst for blood, turning their trip into a fight for survival.

An account of the life and work of the influential Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an iconic figure and a godless demigod who dared to enter the darkest depths of the human mind; through his correspondence and his own voice, and that of his family and friends.

In 1587, more than 100 English colonists settle on Roanoke Island and soon vanish, baffling historians for centuries; now, experts use the latest forensic archaeology to investigate the true story behind America's oldest and most controversial mystery.

Captain Billy Flynn anticipates the revival of his crew. Split up years previous, he hopes to continue singing his shanties and living life to the fullest with the people closest to him. His crew. The Pirates of St Piran.

Virginie Thévenot, a somewhat special math teacher, takes advantage of a general strike in a college to try an extraordinary experiment with a small group of students. She takes a bet: let them do what they want... A spark that will ignite the spirits of teenagers, cause a small revolution within the college, and turn their lives upside down.

With seven days to pay back a drug - dealer, three young Polynesian men take up a job from a local crime lord in order to set things straight.

GARNiDELiA (ガルニデリア) is a Japanese music group composed of singer MARiA and composer Toku (Abe Naomi). The origin of the group name is "Le Palais Garnier de Maria (French, meaning MARiA's Garnier Opera House)", which is a combination of words from the asteroid 2758 (Cordelia) that was discovered at the same time as Toku's birth year. This book The next six performances are Kawasaki CLUB CITTA' (Kanagawa Prefecture) on December 5, 2021, Rensa (Miyagi Prefecture) on December 24, DRUM LOGOS (Fukuoka Prefecture) on January 10, 2022, and NAGOYA on January 15 ReNY limited (Aichi Prefecture), January 16th umeda TRAD (Osaka Prefecture), January 23rd Nakano Sanctuary (Tokyo)

At once potently restrained and explosively oddball, Mira’s Daughter is an examination of narcissism, co-dependency and the exacting demands of fame from 2021 Flickerfest Outstanding Emerging Female Director Alisha Hnatjuk.

Being together for almost five years, Joan expects William to pop the question. They love each other. They live together. Marriage is the only thing that's missing. But for William, it's the hardest to give.

Lucy experiences a fundamental change in her understanding of existence and struggles to find someone who will listen. If seeing, is believing, what happens when nobody believes what you've seen?

Marlena (62) and Tomasz (42), hidden away from the world in a small seaside town, have been in a happy relationship for many years. Their intricately woven everyday life slowly begins to crumble when, against Tomasz’s will, Marlena allows her son to move in with them. As the past comes back to them in full force they will have to redefine their love, choices and life.

Yeon Hee never met a guy, but she is a college student who writes fan fiction well! However, to write a dark, R-rated piece that the editor wanted, she felt like she desperately needed to be in a relationship. Just in time, Min Ho, who is full of charm, showed a crush on Yeon Hee and finally started their first love. What is going on? In response, Yeon Hee asks her childhood friend Woo Yeong to tell her about his first experience that she was so curious about.

In 1945, twelve million homeless children wandered through the rubble of a Europe that had just emerged from the deadliest conflict it had ever known. An unprecedented number of children were separated from their parents or orphaned. Under the guise of the best interests of these children and of the nation, France, the United States, Great Britain and the countries of Central Europe embarked on a veritable race for children. By demographic opportunism, by fear of seeing them indoctrinated by a new totalitarianism, these countries move and adopt these orphans, erasing their history and their identity.

Plagued by visions and nightmares, a catholic priest is ousted from his parish. With nowhere to turn he follows the sinister visions calling him and discovers a deal he alone must stop.

The photographic world of Jerry Schatzberg.

One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions, commanding American baritone Quinn Kelsey gives a searing portrayal of the title character, a deformed court jester determined to protect the virtue of his daughter, Gilda, sung by radiant soprano Rosa Feola. His debauched employer, the Duke of Mantua, is tenor Piotr Beczała, with dynamic young maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium to lead a cast that also features bass Andrea Mastroni as the assassin Sparafucile and mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena.

Abandoning her life, grieving Katherine flees to the tranquil island of Nevis, where she encounters a captivating and enigmatic young man. As the two grow closer, Katherine's perception of fantasy and reality begin to blur, throwing her life drastically off course.

Three 12-year-old boys, including the precocious Dug, excitedly tag along with Dug’s older brother and his new girlfriend for a night of fireside camping. Their good times are rudely interrupted, though, when a local monster legend known as the “Night Child” turns out to be all too real.

Fares is a struggling gas station worker with a sports background, but circumstances force him to confront the brutality of businessman Rashid El Suwaifi.

Under orders from the government, an alcoholic werewolf and stoner mummy struggle to keep the supernatural world hidden from humans.

When Ava wishes her parents would go away for winter break, the next morning all the adults are gone. Now the kids can do whatever they want! But they soon wish their parents back again.

Haleh and her husband Amir are having to cope with a tough situation: their four-year-old son Ilya has suddenly stopped talking. There is evidently no physiological cause, so they go to see a psychotherapist who comes up with a radical solution. Ilya’s mother, who has cared for him until now, is to take a back seat while the father assumes her role looking after the child. This change in the established order sends the family into a downward spiral of tension and aggression, and it's extremely difficult to see a way out.

From the Black Earth is a collaboration between Bristol based company Cables and Cameras, and a local farmer Humphrey Lloyd. Employing both lucid speakers and poetic camera work, the film poses stark questions such as; why does food poverty exist in a nation of plenty, and why are people of colour so under represented not only in our countryside and farms, but in the environmental movement more broadly? By giving a platform to people of colour who are connecting with nature and working the land, this short documentary starts to unpick these questions...

An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.

Sonia wanders around the gloomy mansion where she lives, obsessed with unraveling a dark hidden secret. Her past, her fears, her desire and her terrible nightmares have created a deadly web in which she is trapped, taking her away the little sanity she had left. Sometimes killing time is not such a harmless thing.

Among intrusive memories, a woman hears a disconcerting call from the depths of her being. A cryptic cry for help guides her to the original wound, to her inner child, becoming her own protector.

Lee's life changes when he wins the lottery, only for his new girlfriend's ruthless ex to steal the ticket. As lust, greed, and vengeance collide, this love triangle plunges into a deadly showdown.

In a convent near Milan in the late 1970s, some mysterious murders take place. A couple of expert exorcists are sent to investigate, because it is thought there is a hand of the devil. It will be a tough fight between good and evil.

Following the death of his wife, 30-something app designer Shawn finds a doppelganger to take her place. Shawn's friends try to help him move past his personal tragedy, but he's committed to living a lie.

Set list: Introduction / With A Little Help From My Friends, It Don't Come Easy, What Goes On, Memphis In Your Mind, Ringo And His Drums, Lonely Is The Night, Free Ride, Down Under, Dream Weaver, Boys, Pick Up The Pieces, Liverpool 8, Act Naturally, Yellow Submarine, Frankenstein, All Starr Band Introduction, Never Without You, Choose Love, The Stroke, Work To Do, I Wanna Be Your Man, Love Is Alive, Who Can It Be Now, Photograph, Oh My My, With A Little Help From My Friends, Give Peace A Chance