Club Native (2008)

フリーでイタリア語の翻訳をしている香山笑子は親の勧めで見合いをすることになった。相手は30歳の医師・岸田睦月。笑子は情緒不安定でアルコール依存症、睦月は同性愛者だったが、それを納得して2人は結婚する。新婚生活がしばらく過ぎた頃、笑子は睦月の恋人・藤島紺に接触しようとする。最初は警戒した紺だったが、ある夜、睦月が帰宅すると紺がやって来ていた。3人の間には、友情とも愛情ともつかぬ不思議な関係ができあがりつつあった。睦月は笑子を好きになっていたが、彼女を抱くことはできず、彼女の親友・瑞穂に笑子に恋人を紹介してやってほしいと言う。それを知った笑子はショックを受けた。紺もまた笑子の方に同情的だった。やがて笑子の両親に、瑞穂を通して睦月が同性愛者であることが知れ渡り、離婚騒ぎになる。笑子は睦月と別れないためにも、人口受精で子供を作ることを考えるが、睦月は猛反対する。関係のバランスの崩れた笑子、睦月、紺の3人は気まずい気持ちのまま夜の街を車で走っていく。途中、笑子がひとり車を降りて夜の闇の中に走り去る。睦月を責める紺。夜明けが来た。倒れるまで走り続けた笑子の前に、睦月と紺の優しい笑顔があった。

Epirus, 1951. An 8-year-old boy, victim of the hatred of the civil war, is responsible for the fate of his newborn sister. Lifting the baby on his shoulders, he crosses the inhospitable mountains and faces very difficult situations, hoping for a better life.

The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much he did not know both about her past and about their relationship.

Hanna is a 30 something single woman from Helsinki. She has a good job and great friends and has almost given up on finding the Mr. Right. One night, Hanna meets Markus, a dark stranger who sweeps her off her feet.

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

An anthology of 26 fan entries submitted for inclusion in ABCs of Death 2, each offering various takes on the letter "M"

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, one veteran dies by suicide in America every 80 minutes. While only 1% of Americans has served in the military, former service members account for 20% of all suicides in the U.S. Based in Canandaigua, NY and open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the Veterans Crisis Line receives more than 22,000 calls each month from veterans of all conflicts who are struggling or contemplating suicide. This timely documentary spotlights the traumas endured by America’s veterans, as seen through the work of the hotline’s trained responders. CRISIS HOTLINE captures extremely private moments, where the professionals, many of whom are themselves veterans or veterans’ spouses, can often interrupt the thoughts and plans of suicidal callers to steer them out of crisis.

Somewhere in a subtropical country white visitors crowd around dark-skinned plantation workers emptying their harvest baskets. They look curious, as if wanting to test the quality of the tea leaves. Everywhere tourists take out their cameras ­ whether in front of large animals in the wild or camel riders, whether in the face of decorated human bodies or daily work routines. Now and again they look into the camera themselves. For later, for when they will proudly show their 'exotic' finds at home. This posing contains a model of western travels and picture making which is over a century old. The fascinated gaze on the foreigners fixes them in pre-formed frames. Lisl Ponger follows the trail of that gaze by taking amateur found footage material and linking it together in new ways.

A dysfunctional love story about an Irish food writer and a politically committed Spanish woman.

Based on a popular Neapolitan song, ‘A santanotte, is the earliest extant feature film by Elvira Notari, Italy's first and most prolific female filmmaker. Nanninella, a young girl, is exploited and abused by her father, whom she maintains with her waitress salary.

A feature film by Elvira Notari, Italy's earliest and most prolific female filmmaker.

"When Prince William experienced a major building boom in the 1990s, a shortage of labor created a demand for workers, which led to an increase in the Latino population. Some of the newcomers were legal immigrants. Some were not. A blogger named Greg Letiecq began to write about his unhappiness with hearing Spanish spoken in public places. Finding an audience, he fomented about rising crime rates, rising taxes to pay for services for the newcomers, overcrowded dwellings, music played too loud, fast driving, and so on. He included Latino crime reports from the local police blotter. He even claimed armed members of the Mexican revolutionary group Zapatistas were moving to Prince William County." - Roger Ebert

The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.

信じられるのは、己のみ。南アフリカ・ケープタウンで密輸ギャングの縄張り争いが勃発。実直な警官は強大な犯罪組織の親玉に利用され、悪事の片棒を担ぐことに。

At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico (Bova), her adoptive brother, son of Francesca.

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

Prom night is ritual, disco balls, expectation, corsages, dresses, holding, sweating, status, entering in twos, balloons, school gyms, dancing slow and fast.