The Big Fight (2021)

クリント・イーストウッドが監督・主演を務めた衝撃のヒューマン・ドラマ。厳しいボクシングの世界を題材に、そこに生きる名もなき男女の悲愴な人生模様を綴る。アカデミー賞で作品賞をはじめ主演女優、助演男優、監督賞の計４部門を受賞。 ロサンジェルスのダウンタウンにある小さなボクシング・ジムを営む老トレーナー、フランキー。その指導力に疑いのない彼だったが、選手を大切に育てるあまり、成功を急ぐ優秀なボクサーは彼のもとを去ってしまう。そんなある日、31歳になる女性マギーがジムの門を叩き、フランキーに弟子入りを志願する。13歳の時からウェイトレスで生計を立てるなど不遇の人生を送ってきた彼女は、唯一誇れるボクシングの才能に最後の望みを託したのだった。ところが、そんなマギーの必死な思いにも、頑固なフランキーは、“女性ボクサーは取らない”のひと言ですげなく追い返してしまう。それでも諦めずジムに通い、ひとり黙々と練習を続けるマギー。フランキーの唯一の親友スクラップはそんなマギーの素質と根性を見抜き、目をかける。やがてマギーの執念が勝ち、フランキーはついにトレーナーを引き受けるのだが…。

家族を不慮の事故で失ったダニーは、大学で民俗学を研究する恋人や友人と共にスウェーデンの奥地で開かれる”90年に一度の祝祭”を訪れる。美しい花々が咲き乱れ、太陽が沈まないその村は、優しい住人が陽気に歌い踊る楽園のように思えた。しかし、次第に不穏な空気が漂い始め、ダニーの心はかき乱されていく。妄想、トラウマ、不安、恐怖……それは想像を絶する悪夢の始まりだった。

1980年代初頭、映画学校に通う温室育ちの学生がひとりの男と出会う。教養豊かだが怪しげなその男と親密な関係になるなかで、彼女は撮りたい世界を見いだしてゆく。

As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

鳳学園に転校してきた男装の美少女・ウテナ。かつての恋人である冬芽と再会した彼女は、そこで彼と同じ薔薇の刻印のついた指輪を手にする。その指輪を持つ者は、"薔薇の花嫁"と呼ばれる美少女・アンシーを賭けて、決闘ゲームに参加しなくてはならない。そして、そのゲームに勝利すれば、彼女とエンゲージし"永遠があるという城"へ行くことが許されるのだ。女性であるウテナは巻き込まれるようにゲームに参加するも、生徒会副会長の西園寺、フェンシング部キャプテンの樹璃と対決し、次々と勝利を収めていく。こうしてアンシーとエンゲージすることになったウテナは、彼女を"外の世界"へ連れ出そうとする。だが、巨大な洗車ブラシに取り込まれ、自動車にされてしまうウテナ。アンシーはそんなウテナ・カーに乗り込むと、追手を振りきり閉ざされた世界からの脱出に成功するのだった。

January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.

Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself.

A grumpy boxing coach takes on a young, rebellious woman under his wings and starts training her for the world championship. But their biggest battle has to be fought outside the ring.

In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer.

A woman attempts to escape her domestic problems by fleeing to New York in search of her father. She finds him, and also new problems, some friendship, a romance, and an unexpected career as pro-boxer, to make ends meet.

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

Chronicles the extraordinary life of artist Felicia DeRosa, who came out as transgender at the age of 41. With her life, career, and marriage potentially at risk, Felicia embarks on a journey towards authenticity and self-acceptance.

Nacho (Ismael Osorio) and Julio (Emir Martinez) ignore their feelings towards Marcela in order to unleash their most prosaic desires. The deeds of these two friends will have someone face desolation. But who?

“Those Who Come, Will Hear” proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with extinction. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through listening to the daily life of those who still speak them today. Buttressed by an exploration and creation of archives, the film allows us to better understand the musicality of these languages and reveals the cultural and human importance of these venerable oral traditions by nourishing a collective reflection on the consequences of their disappearance.

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli military arrest. Each year, some 700 Palestinian children undergo military detention in a system where ill-treatment is widespread and institutionalized. For these young detainees, few rights are guaranteed, even on paper. After release, the experience of detention continues to shape and mark former child prisoners’ path forward.

Whilst most young women in her home town of Zambia were busy planning weddings, Esther Phiri had other ideas: to stay single, be a professional boxer and complete the high school education that she abandoned when her family fell on hard times. Her quick and meteoric rise to an undefeated world champion took not only the boxing world by surprise, but sent emotions fever pitch. But whilst the global press rushed to portray her as a strong and confident woman tagged »Zambia’s Million Dollar Baby», in private Esther slowly crumbled under the weight of her success. Adulation and celebrity had increased, but so had criticism, envy and expectations from her family and fans. In the pursuit of independence from a husband, her global success had made her a symbol of hope and empowerment, and a provider for her family and friends whose demands increased as Esther’s fortune grew.

A poetic documentation of the Long Beach Island, NJ community as they battle local politics, cope with personal tragedy, and band together after Hurricane Sandy.