Mary Stephen

Cuenta la historia de una joven muchacha que viaja desde Shanghai a Hong Kong para estudiar, y que acaba dedicándose a seducir a hombres ricos y poderosos a las órdenes de su tía.

Melanie returns to Hong Kong as filmmaker-in-residence at a university after living abroad for decades. She tries to redefine her cultural roots and affiliations. Niki is making a documentary film about their family’s migration from China to their Hakka village. Melanie and Niki Both realise they are living with an original “molecule” that can’t be erased even after generations of dilution, the so-called “Memory of Water.”

Françoise Etchegaray and Mary Stephen, who worked with Rohmer, talk about his Tales of four seasons.

Handan and Korhan a middle-aged couple who live their lives in one of istanbul's best neighborhoods. Handan constantly invents things for herself in order to fill her life. Handan, imitates her friend Sermin and starts writing! But this desire, which is innocent in the first place, will become jealous over time and diverge in different ways.

A young woman in modern-day Shanghai whose chance encounter with a stranger moves her to divulge a deep-seated secret. In atmospheric flashbacks she is shown in an old house filled with mementos of the Jewish population who were given asylum in Shanghai during World War II.

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s moral tale draws from the example of today’s Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons.

Rohmer adapta al cine la más loca historia de amor de la literatura barroca del siglo XVII, "L’Astrée", de Honoré d’Urfé (1607-1628). La intriga, que se sitúa en un bosque maravilloso, en la Galia de los druidas del siglo V, relata los amores del pastor Céladon (Andy Gillet) y de la bella Astrée (Stéphanie de Crayencour). Convencida de la infidelidad de Céladon, Astrée lo abandona. El joven, desesperado, intenta suicidarse, pero es salvado, sin que Astrée lo sepa, por las ninfas.

Cortometraje del director Eric Rohmer sobre cómo permanecer al lado de su amante (casado con otra mujer) todo el día sin que nadie lo note ...

Return to the Border is a documentary directed by Zhao Liang about his return to his hometown in China that borders the Yalu river and North Korea. The film presents deep insight into both the Chinese and North Korean societies and changes that have taken place over the last several decades.

Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and evolved through the history of the cinema. Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing traces this story from the world of pioneering silent auteurs such as Georges Méliès and D.W. Griffith through the bold stylings of the masters of the French New Wave to the technical and creative innovations of films like The Matrix, Memento, and The Sixth Sense. Edge Codes.com includes interviews with noted directors George Lucas and Norman Jewison, as well as top editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Zach Staenberg, Dody Dorn, Andrew Mondshein, and many more.

En 1936, el Frente Popular y la guerra de España agitan los espíritus. Fiodor, joven general del ejército zarista, refugiado en París, y su esposa Arsinoé, participan del enrarecido ambiente. En tanto que ella simpatiza con los comunistas, él realiza viajes secretos y le gusta inquietar a quienes le rodean. No oculta que es un espía, pero disimula por cuenta de quién: ¿de los anticomunistas blancos, de la Unión Soviética, de los nazis o de todos a la vez ? ¿Lo sabe él mismo, que ama a su mujer, pero parece dispuesto a sacrificarla en nombre de un sórdido complot?

The universal story of the meeting between a man and a woman.

This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

Reconstrucción de las memorias de Miss Grace Eliott, una inglesa monárquica que vivió durante la Revolución Francesa y que fue ama de llaves del Duque de Orleans.

Un estudiante se enamora de una joven pintora. Bajo el sello (y asesoramiento técnico), de Rohmer, "La Cambrure" (la curva), un cortometrajes en video, es una producción de la Compañía de Eric Rohmer y Edwige Shaki, que también escribió el guión. A pesar de estar dirigido por Shaki, se nota algunas de las marcas de Rohmer, el diálogo extenso, los jóvenes actores, incluyendo Edwige Shaki.

Isabelle y Magali son dos amigas que viven en un valle de la Provenza. Isabelle se ha empeñado en casar a Magali, que está viuda y se ha quedado sola tras la marcha de sus hijos, razón por la cual recurre a los anuncios por palabras.

In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten Breytenbach as he executes a series of scroll paintings for a museum in the Netherlands. Poetry readings in different tongues are fused with the poet's reflection on philosophies of religion and mind.

A documentary by Mary Stephen

A documentary by Mary Stephen.

Nuevo cuento de las "cuatro estaciones" de Rohmer. El joven Gaspard llega de vacaciones al balneario francés de Dinard. Su idea es encontrarse allí con Lena, la muchacha que lo tiene loco. Pero en esos días soleados y calmos conoce a otra chica, una morena atractiva y sensual que le sugiere nuevos rumbos a su corazón. Sin embargo, tal vez la respuesta no esté en ella, sino en Margot, la dulce camarera con la que Gaspard hace amistad sin darse cuenta.

Tres relatos sobre citas en París. En el primero, mientras una joven está meditando sobre la posible traición de su novio, un joven intenta entablar conversación con ella. En el segundo, una joven pasea por París con su amante, un profesor de universidad, y se plantea si debe dejar o no a su prometido. En el tercero, un joven artista lleva a su novia sueca a un galería de arte. Allí conoce a una joven que comparte su obsesión por un cuadro de Picasso.

El alcalde de un pequeño pueblo quiere construir un gran complejo deportivo-cultural en unos terrenos cercanos al pueblo. Cuando todo parece seguir su cauce normal, comienzan a surgir infinidad de pequeños problemas, presiones de uno y otro bando y cuestiones políticas que ponen en peligro el proyecto.

Durante unas vacaciones estivales, Felicia y Charles tienen un apasionado romance, pero debido a una confusión de direcciones pierden el contacto. Cinco años después, en Navidad, Felicia vive en París con su madre y con su hija nacida nueve meses después de aquel verano. En su vida sentimental, Felicia duda entre Maxence, un peluquero, y Loic, un joven librero intelectual, pero es incapaz de comprometerse con ninguno de ellos porque no puede olvidar a su antiguo amor.

A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.

A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.

A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.

A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.

François, un joven estudiante que trabaja de noche, sospecha que su novia, Anne, se está viendo con otro hombre. A partir de ese momento empieza a seguir al "supuesto" amante, un aviador al que encuentra con otra mujer. Durante su espionaje, François conoce a una joven que le ayudará a encontrar una explicación a esta confusa situación. Amor y celos de juventud dominan esta primera película de la serie de "Comedias y proverbios" de Rohmer.

Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to move with ease between the centres of their different worlds Paul maintains an ambiguous friendship with Gabriel, who goes through a series of homosexual affairs. For Selena, emotions become difficult to handle when she finds herself involved with both men. in the contradictory position of being in the centre and on the outside.

Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to move with ease between the centres of their different worlds Paul maintains an ambiguous friendship with Gabriel, who goes through a series of homosexual affairs. For Selena, emotions become difficult to handle when she finds herself involved with both men. in the contradictory position of being in the centre and on the outside.

Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to move with ease between the centres of their different worlds Paul maintains an ambiguous friendship with Gabriel, who goes through a series of homosexual affairs. For Selena, emotions become difficult to handle when she finds herself involved with both men. in the contradictory position of being in the centre and on the outside.

Shades of Silk is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and something much more fulfilling but frightening and vague in their relationship. A large part of the action takes place in the Shanghai of 1935 although the film was shot entirely on location in Paris.

A Very Easy Death is a profoundly moving end-of-life account of Stephen's mother passing away in a hospital. Taking inspiration from Simone de Beauvoir's masterpiece, Stephen's finely nuanced portrait of bereavement, takes the viewers metaphorically through songs and images.

Shot during Mary Stephen's time in Canada, Labyrinthe is an experimental spellbinder. Two girls, one Caucasian and the other Asian, are dressed in identical attires, loitering in, bumping along and leaping up and down labyrinth-like cross-cutting corridors where religious and social contexts overlap. Traversing between art and intellectual spheres of East and West, Stephen and her co-directors put their finger on the pulse of the paradoxes that underlie a dual cultural identity.