Cinematic Era: 2024 Vintage

Ramy Youssef reflects on issues big and small–from global events to his childhood book report to finding unity in our divided world.

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.

A desperate mind can cling to many things in a tormented effort to compensate for emotional voids. They try to fill them with work, food, passions, alcohol, nicotine. In this way, an addiction is capable of shaking the most promising career and the kindest person. Betty is a young woman with many dreams, but her trajectory is put to the test as her mind begins to revolve around what is inside bottles. For her, it's what would fill the void in her heart, supposedly.

The film tells the story of 30 million worth of virtual currency triggering a scramble among several people. The side of human nature that is exposed is comparable to the scene after a typhoon.

The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face. Then it's much easier to fix a broken lamp. Karl meets Torben, a destined brother. An absurd, humorous, and melodic meeting between two old men captured by grief.

Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. Petty vanity and a sense of entitlement lead to corruption and the Netanyahus' unwillingness to give up power. The extreme right senses opportunity in Bibi's weakness, and the dominos fall.

Lucie, 25, dreams of becoming a dancer, even though her birth disability confines her to a wheelchair. She applies for a talent show audition, but the judges' rejection shatters her hopes. Impulsively, she throws herself down the stairs, earning her a one-way ticket to the rehabilitation center. There, she meets Alexis, a former star dancer, who agrees to train her. Faced with an immeasurable number of obstacles, but driven by a lust for life, dreams, and extraordinary independence, will Lucie succeed in realizing her dream and becoming a professional dancer?

The Pinisi Shipbuilding Family is facing conflict! The sole heir, Dewa Rucci, refuses to continue his father Puang Sinar's shipbuilding business and instead enjoys riding motorcycles with his friends. Meanwhile, the wood from the Na'nasa tree, used as raw material for Pinisi ships, is in crisis. When Dewa Rucci unexpectedly reunites with Pertiwi, his unresolved first love, Puang Sinar, with the help of Yudis and Puang Hari, comes up with ideas to keep the shipbuilding business running smoothly. Moreover, Pertiwi is the heir to the largest Na'nasa tree land in all of Bulukumba.

A coming of age movie the world has never seen While South Africa battles through civil unrest and the final days of apartheid, Jeffrey Greenbaum battles through his raging hormones and the final days of high school. Will he be able to lose his virginity before the country goes up in flames?

An aspiring filmmaker, Guru, plagued by recurring dreams of a magical book and a serpent, ventures into a mysterious forest palace. What unfolds is a tale of ancient curses, invisible protectors, and cinematic ambitions colliding with supernatural forces.

After finding love, Tom and Austin Wright unwittingly schedule weddings for the same day - leading to a fierce fight over who gets to wed their bride on Christmas Day.

Stefania discovers her talent as an actress. In parallel with filming, she runs a popular blog. It especially attracts the attention of several young fans - Aleks, who dreams of becoming a star, the withdrawn excellent student Masha, the technical genius Tima and the enterprising Vanya. When one of the filming days, the main character of the film in which Stefania is filming - Gennadiy the pony - is kidnapped, and the stunt cowboys lose sight of the kidnappers, the girl decides to take matters into her own hands and turns to her subscribers for help. Now Masha, Tima, Aleks and Vanya have to team up to find the pony and finish filming the New Year's hit.

In the martial world, there is a mysterious sect known as Wuyin, where Nie Yinniang is the top martial artist. Her master, Miaohui, assigns her a mission to eliminate a wealthy merchant, but Nie Yinniang soon finds herself drawn into a deeper conspiracy. She crosses paths with Sima Sheng'an, a deputy minister of the Dali Court, and together they begin to uncover hidden truths.

Okhee is a lower-class diver in the city. One day, Eunyoung, the daughter of her late husband, comes to visit. What’s more, Kyeongsik, Okhee’s son, who is being chased by creditors, leaves his young son Junseo with them and disappears. Eunyoung wasn’t planning to stay long but misses the chance to leave due to Okhee's accident and the appearance of her step-nephew, Junseo. Eunyoung starts to live together with Okhee, but everything feels uncomfortable.

NJPW Windy City Riot 2024 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois on April 12, 2024.

A journey of a son separated from his mother during the 1971 war. A son embarks on a quest to reunite with his mother in the United States, the profound impact of his search leaving an indelible mark and shattered his life forever.

This biopic follows basketball legend Dražen Petrović's life, from his early years in Croatia to his rise to NBA stardom and career cut short by tragedy.

Anticipating eviction from her retirement home after the death of her son and sole provider, rebellious septuagenarian Émilie decides to take revenge on all those who have wronged her. During her journey of initiation, she cuts to the quick to right the wrongs and is joined by Linda, a cleaning lady with whom she has forged a close bond. She, too, has nothing left to lose and decides to wage war against those who have scorned her. Soon, these two companions are hunted down by a pair of policemen.

Combining personal accounts with archive footage, this film features the voices of some of the only people left on earth to have survived a nuclear bomb.

A grieving young man falls into the final act of a cult leader's ritual.

Amid drought and famine in Cupang, young Elsa claims to have seen the Virgin Mary and subsequently been blessed with the ability to heal the sick. As people flock to witness her powers, the village becomes consumed by faith, prosperity, greed, and deceit. Is Elsa truly a symbol of hope in a world desperate for salvation?

When Zoe writes to agony aunt Dear Adora to help save her relationship before the holidays, she puts the advice into practice and it’s disastrous: her boyfriend breaks up with her! When she tracks down Dear Adora to confront her, she discovers it’s actually a man. She tells him she’ll keep his secret if he helps her to repair her life via a series of Christmas themed events publicized by his column. When the interest in their activities gains huge traction, will they also find love?

Idil, a wedding dress designer, finds herself caught in a conflict involving her ex-boyfriend and a bride's impending marriage. As she navigates this situation, she grapples with her own past and the complexities of relationships.

In order to save their rehab facility, four cross-addicted anonymous alcoholics undertake a very risky task to smuggle two tankers of spirit across Poland. For their own safety, they kidnap their therapist for the trip. However, the journey turns out to be more dangerous than they expected. After them – or rather the illegal alcohol they are transporting – is a Customs Officer, who is not entirely who she says she is. From then on, everything gets complicated.

The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with their questionnaires in isolated villages in the Himalayas. The filmmakers undertake to provide an intimate insight into the daily lives and desires of Bhutanese people, and also seek the answer to the universal question of whether happiness can really be measured. Gross National Happiness promises a heart-warming journey into a mysterious, fairytale-like world, which is the exact opposite of the social order dominated by consumption and desires.

Five years into the company, Hye-in is still the youngest. The business report shall be made to the monk in charge of correction and correction of the publisher of the temple. Thanks to the rush of work and customers testing their patience, they travel back and forth between paradise and hell a day.

In the 1960s, Jule Campbell shattered glass ceilings, transforming a struggling sports magazine into a media empire: the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. The documentary chronicles Jule's 32-year reign, where she championed intelligence and empowered supermodels like Tyra Banks, Christie Brinkley, and Elle Macpherson. Weaving together her journey with feminism's evolution, the film explores the changing gaze on beauty, from objectification to body positivity. Through stunning visuals and intimate interviews with a wise, nonagenarian Campbell, we witness a legacy that continues to inspire.

In the racially turbulent UK of the early 70s, a group of black musicians came together in South London with a common love of rhythms and a message of peace. Cymande – with the dove as their symbol – combined jazz, funk, soul and Caribbean grooves to form a unique sound. Despite success in the USA they faced indifference in their native Britain, becoming disillusioned and disbanding. But the music lived on, as new generations of artists imbibed and reworked their pioneering sounds in fresh ways. From Soul II Soul to De La Soul, MC Solaar to The Fugees, the Dove had spread Cymande's message far and wide, prompting their return after forty years. This is their story.

A veteran returns home for his father's funeral, only to find himself waging a new war when horrifying secrets come to light.

After Ors Gabriel loses his beloved dog to cancer, the shock from the trauma produces strange vision projections that force Ors to wrestle with two possibilities: that his mind has fractured, or that it's actually real.

A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.

Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the following years. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera and knocks on the doors of her family to push them to clarify their attitudes to her father’s crime that stretched over so many years. A cinematographic journey that challenges social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.

A copycat serial killer goes on a rampage to prove he's even more deadly than the original. The media redubs him The Omicron Killer.

One day, Fox and Hare find that Owl has disappeared. Together with their friends, they search the forest to find him, but instead they discover a big lake that was not there before. Could the sudden appearance of the lake have anything to do with Owl’s disappearance? They must go and find Owl, who is somewhere out there on the rapidly rising water... It is the start of an exciting and fun adventure.

Two college archeology interns and their Hawaiian guide race against time to save precious artifacts threatened by a volcanic eruption.

Zoe's deteriorating marriage leaves her feeling isolated and longing for connection in the aftermath of a personal trauma. To escape loneliness, she blindly stumbles into a passionate affair, which ultimately leads her down a deadly path.

Aicha, a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband Brahim and young son Adam. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. Months later, Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a pregnant wife in tow. Mehdi's arrival triggers old wounds and a darkness that threatens to consume the entire village.

Fifty years after The Wicker Man (1973), director Robin Hardy’s lost papers resurface, prompting his sons Justin and Dominic to explore the legacy of the cult classic—and their father. For Justin, the film represents personal loss; for Dominic, a distant cultural phenomenon. Together, they uncover the truth behind Robin’s role in the film and confront the complexities of independent filmmaking, family, and myth.

When a talk show relationship expert with her own romantic hang-ups gets stranded at a ranch before Christmas, the charming rancher reminds her that love is always worth the risk.

Following the death of their parents, Harriet and her siblings must unpack their childhood fears as they prepare to sell their dragon-filled Oxfordshire home. Between the clutter and the boxes, the siblings find themselves haunted by the memories of their late parents: a dragon-obsessed father and an exacting mother, and the esoteric collections of objects they left behind.

The 2024 Honor of Kings Co-Creation Night is the ninth anniversary celebration party of "Honor of Kings" held at the Beijing National Speed ​​Skating Arena (Ice Ribbon) on October 27, 2024, with the theme of "Welcome to Honor of Kings". The event reviewed the development of the game in the nine years since its launch through celebrity performances, e-sports events, IP content releases, etc., and for the first time set up innovative links such as the "Glory of Kings" trial session and the "Star Break" all-star performance competition. More than 30 artists including Yang Mi, Zhou Shen, and the Times Youth Troupe (Ma Jiaqi, Ding Chengxin, Song Yaxuan, Liu Yaowen, Zhang Zhenyuan, Yan Haoxiang, He Junlin) participated in the performance, presenting diversified programs such as singing and dancing, magic, and e-sports stage plays.

Against a backdrop of political unrest in Turkey, this biopic charts the life of Anatolian rock singer Cem Karaca, focusing on his revolutionary ideals. Heightened emotions and moments of threat reflect the country's rising tensions.

From The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, experience this Shakespearean classic directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon featuring Tony Award nominee Ato Blankson-Wood (“Slave Play”) in the title role and Solea Pfeiffer as Ophelia (“Hadestown”).

It’s year 2147, men are sterile due to a virus leaving humankind almost extinct and Tania, a biologist, is trying to inseminate herself to prevent this with the help of an AI system called VIDA. Things take a turn when Azarias, one of the last men and a traveller with a dark past, suddenly appears.

A traumatized man is convinced someone is trying to poison him, so his skeptical wife forces him to face his fears head on with exposure therapy.

It tells the story of the free and undisciplined ranger Yun Zhan and his master who are implicated in a bizarre case. They are accidentally suspected by the princess Shi Qiutong and the guard An Xuewu as the murderer. In the process of proving his innocence, Yun Zhan gradually finds the direction of his life and meets Shi Qiutong. They joined forces to solve the strange case, and since then they have shouldered their own missions and responsibilities to protect the safety of the people in the imperial city.

A female journalist disguises herself as a prisoner to investigate a murder case. The investigation led him to the terrible secret of the isolation room.

1963. The young nurse Anna begins working in the juvenile ward of a mental hospital. There she meets Lucia, a fifteen-year-old schizophrenic. Against the backdrop of a struggle between Dr. Marie and the rigid Dr. Oreste to reform patient treatment, a relationship between Anna and Lucia develops, forcing them to make decisive choices for their respective lives.

Believing that he was set up by Don Galvino, Slick sets things in motion in order to get close enough to Don Galvino to exact his revenge.

Estranged sisters, Lizzie and Jo, are reunited with their eccentric mother after having witnessed their father’s mysterious death. A traumatized Lizzie becomes entranced by a haunted mirror whose sinister role in tearing this family apart is just beginning.

A businessman is forced to spend the Christmas holiday in Durban, South Africa, due to a business deal gone awry. However, his plans are complicated by the presence of a boisterous family and their festive antics.

In late 17th Century France, a young, insecure woman resorts to desperate ways to be reunited with her lover, who's become a nun at a convent. Based on the chronicles of Julie d'Aubigny.

Four siblings Deniz, Derya, Ali and Yaz, who think they've woken up to an ordinary school morning, learn that their parents are actually secret agents. Their parents have been kidnapped by evil forces. With the help of the supercomputer TA-OZ 4000, hidden in their home, the four siblings embark on an adventure to save both their parents and the future of the Earth. On this challenging journey, they will become a true sibling team.

Chump sheds her tough-as-nails attitude, risking her life to fly through a blizzard and the harrowing streets of New York to return a prized possession to a kind woman from the park.

Vetri, a hapless bachelor gets tricked into marrying into a debt-ridden Zamindar family. When a terrorist’s death happens inside Vetri’s apartment, he and his goofy in-laws embark on a chaotic heist to retrieve the body from the mortuary and claim their reward.

Two mischievous siblings, Klotylda and Barnabáš, fail their final exams at the wizardly lyceum. In their father Zachariáš’s absence, they break the strict rule and open the forbidden thirteenth chamber, accidentally freeing the evil sorcerer Vzdoroděj. He enchants all the adults and sets off to find a powerful gemstone that will destroy their father and conquer the realm. Hiding with their stern Aunt Berta, the children must manage the household while improving their magical skills and learning to cooperate. When Berta’s rescue plan falters and Vzdoroděj approaches, Klotylda and Barnabáš face him alone.