Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura.".
They open the doors and lean out: their whistles travel the rails across the town. The dogs get up. The children put out their cigarettes. They have arrived, and now, all is still..
A young girl has immigrated. Functioning in a new environment is slowly turning into a routine, and she herself – into a modern Frankenstein’s creation..
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals. Based on a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya, there were originally two parts to the film (If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again), both supposed to be 85 minutes, but apparently what we have now is this 103-minute amalgam of the two..
I’ve been clever, I’ve been angry, I’ve been articulate, I’ve been wise, I’ve been devastated but I’ve never been defenseless or true as this. If this is my very last song I ever put out, I’m at peace and proud of that..
A ten-year-old Kazak boy learns a valuable lesson about keeping the sheep safe from the wolves..
A non-resident Bengali youth comes back to his mother land. Initially he had his limitations, but while going through the length and breadth of Bengal, he falls in love with Bengal and promises to come back again..
Natália is a college student who still lives with her parents, in her childhood home. Her estranged older sister arrives for a visit, bringing along infancy memories Natália doesn't recall. Her sleepless nights digging through her archives seem to trigger strange phenomena that might threaten Natália's safety..
At the Mosaik art studio in Berlin, artists with disabilities are able to produce their work unhindered. Sabine Herpich focusses on the artistic process and finds in so doing a form as precise as it is tender..
A video work using Watahiki’s music.
Frame... within a frame... within a frame... poetic... dark and tragic....
Quietly and discreetly, the French director Sarah Mallégol follows a group of thirty-something protagonists who survived the 1994 Rwanda genocide as children. They have no memory of the events – neither those whose fathers were murdered nor those whose parents were responsible. A confrontation begins: focused conversations between generations which, captured by a gentle camera, are meant to cautiously break the long silence – in order to be able to understand, process and mourn..
Twelve case workers who have been working on cases of domestic violence over years, traveling to remote corners of Bundelkhand, create a lexicon of words often used by women on the field. The film works with material of the everyday, scraps of cloth, needle, thread, and the timbre of human voices to explore these questions..
It has been a year since Juliette’s sister has passed and she hasn’t been doing so well since that day, but she must learn how to be kind to herself..
Sawaki Shohei (Yabe Kyosuke) is a strong fighter with a strong manly spirit and a weak heart. He is asked by his classmates to help them in a fight, and in no time at all he knocks out the rival Morikawa and his friends, but a few days later, his friends are turned back by a boxer who calls himself Azuma (Motomiya Yasukaze)..
An animated film for children based on the fairy tale by Svetlana Volkova..
