In the Name of the Land (2019)

誰もが知っているアメコミのヒーローを巨費を投じて復活させた超娯楽作。素朴な田舎を背景に少年時代のスーパーマンを描いた、郷愁に満ちた序盤からデイリー・プラネットの記者として活躍する本編に入っても、暖かみを伴った面白さは一瞬たりとも揺らぐ事は無く、悪の天才レックス・ルーサーの陰謀を食い止めるクライマックスまで一気に見せきる。

この選挙、何かおかしい！？民主党の選挙参謀ゲイリー・ジマー（スティーヴ・カレル）は、ヒラリー・クリントンが大敗し、打ちのめされていたが、ウィスコンシン州の小さな町役場で不法移民のために立ち上がる退役軍人ジャック・ヘイスティングス大佐（クリス・クーパー）のバズっているYouTube動画を見て、リベラルな演説で人々の胸を打つ、彼こそが中西部で民主党の票を取り戻す、起死回生の秘策だと確信。ゲイリーは、スイング・ステート(激戦州)のウィスコンシンを足掛かりに地盤を広げるべきと党を説得し、単身アポなしで田舎の寂れた町、ディアラーケンへと赴き大佐に民主党からの町長選出馬を要請する。ゲイリー自身が指揮を取ることを条件に大佐は出馬を了承し、大佐の娘ダイアナ（マッケンジー・デイヴィス）や住民のボランティアと、地道な選挙活動がスタート。しかし、対立候補の現役町長ブラウンに、共和党が宿敵、トランプの選挙参謀フェイス・ブルースター（ローズ・バーン）を送り込む。その日から、ディアラーケン町長選をめぐるゲイリーVSフェイスの戦い、否、民主党VS共和党の巨額を投じた「仁義なき代理戦争」の幕が切って落とされた。選挙資金の調達やテレビCMの応酬など、あの手この手で抗争がエスカレート！果たして次期政権を懸けた、なりふり構わぬ選挙戦の行方やいかに？

ヒマラヤ山脈の標高4800メートル、8日間のトレッキングでしかたどり着けない実在の村を舞台に、都会から来た教師と子どもたちの交流を描く。ブータン山間部の素朴な暮らしぶりを、圧倒的な映像美で映し出す。

Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.

When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.

The discovery of the tomb of William Tell’s son in a town in the Basque Country spurs the village's cantankerous citizens to lobby for Swiss annexation.

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.

When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a plan to save her.

Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.

In a small village surrounded by mountains somewhere in Lesotho, the 80-year-old widow Mantoa waits for the return of her only surviving relative: her son, who works in a South African coal mine. It is Christmas and he would come home. Messengers, however, bring the sad news: her son died in a mining accident.

After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.

A fight over the calf of a prize milk cow in the close-knit and traditional Pas Valley of Cantabria leaves a cantankerous dairy farmer dead and another fearful of arrest. He and his daughter Val conspire to keep the cause of death quiet, but tensions mount when Val becomes attracted to the dead farmer's son, Rai, estranged from his father and now a hairdresser in the city. The tensions open long-festering family resentments and spur the lurid imagination of Val's younger sister, the teen Genia. "What goes unsaid, gets undone," the Pasiegos say, but is it true? Is there harm in staying silent?

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.

Jesús, a middle-aged man, finds out that he suffers from a venereal disease. Feeling guilty, he abandons his pregnant wife and flees to the countryside. In Pozoamargo, a small village lost in the middle of nowhere, he works as a grape harvester, living a simple existence, until he meets Gloria, a peculiar young woman.

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.

Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.

After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him. While she wonders if she made the right decision, many of the people in her life offer their opinions on the matter. They intend to let her know, whether she likes it or not, on what proves to be a life-changing evening.

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then follows a dialogue between two diametrically opposed personalities who will turn their certainties upside down.

ブリュノは今日も朝から大忙し。自閉症の青少年を支援する団体〈正義の声〉を運営しているのだが、どんな問題を抱えていても断らないために、各所で見放された子供たちで施設はいつもいっぱいだ。〈正義の声〉で働くのは、ブリュノの友人のマリクが運営する団体〈寄港〉で教育されたドロップアウトした若者たち。黙っていればコワモテのふたりだが、「何とかする」の口癖と大きく包み込む笑顔で、社会からはじかれた子供たちを、まとめて救おうとしているのだ。その成果は現れ、最悪の問題児だったディランと、最も重症のヴァランタンの間に、絆が芽生えようとしていた。だが、無認可・赤字経営の〈正義の声〉に監査が入ることになり、閉鎖の危機に迫られる。さらに、ディランが目を離した隙にヴァランタンが失踪するという事件が起きてしまう─。

Vali and Mina are two sisters who are polar opposites, pushed apart by life’s hardships and trials. One is a singer, a dreamer and emotional. The other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving father has finally found the perfect opportunity to bring them together, if only for a weekend, in order to hopefully patch things up between them: Vali has an audition in Paris and it’s mina who has to accompany her despite her contempt for her sister’s passion.

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.

妻子たちとともにリヨンで暮らすアレクサンドル。かつてまだ幼い自分に性的虐待を働いたプレナ神父が、再びこの地に戻って来たことを知った彼は、新たな犠牲者が出ないよう、神父のことを告発することを決意。教会に連絡を取り、神父の旧悪を洗いざらいぶちまけたアレクサンドルだったが、その後、事態は一向に改善されぬまま月日が過ぎていく。そんな中、やはり神父の性的虐待の被害に遭った人々の輪が、次第に広がるようになる。

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.

Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.

This film finds Angélique in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. The first part of the film consist of her angrily refusing to be bedded as well as their trying to literally beat some sense into her. It all seems to go on too long and I was surprised that the Sultan simply didn't have her killed. Late in the film, she finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.

Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.

Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.

Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.

David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Léna, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, David now finds himself alone with his young niece Amanda to care for.

1993年のフランス、パリ。マックスは両親からプレゼントされたビデオカメラで撮影を始め、いつしかそれがライフワークになる。38歳になったマックス(マックス・ブーブリル)は、25年間の映像を編集しようと思い見返すと、遊びや旅行、サッカーのワールドカップ、ミレニアムなど、そこには常に仲間の姿があった。マックスは、この映像のラストシーンを準備しようとする。

As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?

Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a species endangered, thanks to the ultralight of Christian! Then begins an incredible and perilous journey ...

The daily life of a school located in Saint Denis.

Antoine is about to start his first year of medical school… for the third time. Benjamin, just out of high school, will make his first try. He soon realizes it's not exactly a walk in the park. In a fiercely competitive environment, with nights dedicated to hard studying rather than hard partying, the two freshmen will have to adapt and find a middle ground between despair for the present and hope for the future.