
It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
The Inugamis (2006) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Kikunosuke Onoe

A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa’s remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. Read More »
Reconversion (2012) Thom Andersen

Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »
In July (2000) Fatih Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus

Daniel is a young teacher in-spe, who in contrast to everyone else plans to stay in Hamburg for the summer. Read More »
The Edge of Heaven (2007) Fatih Akin, Baki Davrak, Gürsoy Gemec, Cengiz Daner

Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali’s choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. Read More »
Sleepwalk with Me (2012) Seth Barrish, Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, James Rebhorn

“I’m going to tell you a story, and it’s true…. I always have to tell people that.” So asserts comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly to the viewer Read More »
Anti-Social (2015) Reg Traviss, Gregg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers

Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. Read More »
The Supreme Uneasiness (2003) Luis Ospina, Fernando Vallejo, Antonio Caballero, Carlos Monsivåis

The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant portrait of Fernando Vallejo is a documentary about the controversial Colombian writer exiled in Mexico. Read More »
Bad Family (2010) Aleksi Salmenperä, Ville Virtanen, Lauri Tilkanen, Pihla Viitala

After a divorce a father raises his son on his own, while his ex-wife has custody over his daughter. Read More »
Green Hat (2004) Fendou Liu, Yitian Hai, Congxi Li, Haibin Li

In the old days in China, a male servant working in a brothel traditionally wore a green scarf. Read More »