Tectonic Plate

In a bold and original approach to memory, this Lettrist-inspired film maps an anxiety-ridden plane journey from Tokyo to Helsinki without the aid of photographic images. A variety of interventions on the film strip are combined with an atmospheric sound design to create a subjective story of displacement and containment. In an age when experience is increasingly mediated through digital technologies, Taanila seeks out an alternative language in the sensuous surfaces of the celluloid material.

Has the Film Already Started?

“A pink moving screen will stand at the entrance to the theatre, in the night. One hour before the screening a projectionist will show Griffith’s Intolerance on this screen. The start of the film will be announced at 8.30 but no one will enter before 9.30. During these 60 minutes of waiting, people on the first floor of the building will shake out very dusty carpets, and someone else will throw ice water on the heads of those spectators waiting for the screening. Some actors who have infiltrated the crowd will insult other actors on the first floor. At this moment only, and to stop the beginning of a scandal, the doors of the theatre will open…”

Her Sketchbook

Mami rarely leaves home since she dropped out from middle school. She has been escaping reality by immersing herself in copying her favorite manga and illustrations in her room full of books and comics. Her father, Eisuke, worries a lot about her ever since he divorced with her mother, Mika.

Parapancha

Rajeeva rebels against his fathers wrongdoings and leaves home, leaving everything earned by his father, including the last thread of clothing on his body. As destiny has its own way for everyone, Rajeeva happens to meet a nomad Khaali Peeli. Khaali Peeli takes him under his patronage and gets him a server`s job in the family bar and restaurant Parapancha.

The Strayed

At a bus stop, provincial taxi driver Yura meets young beauty Svieta, and is hired to drive both her and her mother to Pryputni - a small Ukrainian village in the middle of nowhere. Seduced by a promised payment and Svieta's short skirt, Yura doesn't have a clue, that his visit to Pryputni is going to last a little longer than he expects.

That Good Night

A moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled with his long-abandoned son.

Insya Allah Sah

After being stuck in an elevator together, a devout man constantly pesters a businesswoman who promised to live by faith if they made it out alive.

Zōho kaitei Chūshingura

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

47 Vendettas

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master's death.

Sweet 20

Adapted from Korean movie, Miss Granny, this movie tells a story of old woman that despise old-age that suddenly transform to a pretty girl with all her youth problems.

While We Live

Inspired by true events, "While We Live" follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine in a tragic accident.

Deep Trouble

In this urban-themed action-drama, a drug-dealing crime kingpin tries to take control of a firm. The artists aren't interested in being part of the dealer's money-laundering scheme, and they hatch their own plan to bring him to justice.

Our Love Began on Cyprus

Returning to Cyprus, businessman Alkis Galanis meets Martha, wife of Major Gordon, on the boat. In Nicosia, the situation is tense as resistance against the British continues with constant bomb attacks, but for "high society" life goes on...

Les vacances de Clémence

In Saint-Nazaire in 1967, a hotbed of workers' struggles, Clémence, 26, is married to a young worker, Gérard. Like many women of her generation, she does not work and takes care of her two children. But she longs for a different life while Gérard confuses the happiness of his family with the acquisition of household appliances. Trained by an old friend, Agnès, in family planning meetings, Clémence will meet a young philosophy teacher, Jérôme. For him, she will abandon her husband and her children, and try to live the utopia of a life of total freedom. Blinded by his pain, a stranger to his wife's questioning, Gérard will have to become aware of the upheavals that will overwhelm society a few months later. Life will never be the same again.

The Funny Farm

The laughs are nonstop as a gang of ambitious young comics strives to make it in the exciting world of stand-up comedy at the famous comedy club in L.A., The Funny Farm. These budding comedy stars are as crazy offstage as they are on: Miguel, America s funniest illegal alien ; Miles, who can t decide if he s a black comic or a comic who happens to be black; Bruce, whose manic act borders on insanity; and Peter, the intense political satirist. The Funny Farm is a hilarious and insightful look into those who live the lives of comedians.

Saro

Barbs, Wastelands

After the Carnation Revolution the peasants in the Alentejo region occupied the huge proprieties where they were once submitted to the power of their masters. The protagonists of this film, resistants of this struggle, tell their story to the youngsters of today, in their own words.

Secretaries

Some secretaries will stop at nothing to get a promotion.