Mary Stephen

Weilong, uma estudante de Shanghai, procura conforto e educação em Hong Kong sob a proteção de sua tia, a Sra. Liang. Mas sua guardiã socialite tem outros planos para ela: a adolescente se tornaria mais um bem valioso a ser penhorado a homens ricos.

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.

O pastor Celadon e a pastora Astrea estão unidos por um puro amor. Enganada por um invejoso que a corteja, Astrea ordena a Celadon que desapareça para sempre da sua vista. Em desespero, ele atira-se ao rio. Astrea pensa que ele morreu, mas Celadon é salvo pelas ninfas. Louco de amor e desespero, enfeitiçado por ninfas, rodeado de rivais e forçado a disfarçar-se de mulher para se poder aproximar da amada, como é que Celadon vai conseguir que ela o reconheça sem desobedecer à sua ordem?

How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing...

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.

The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.

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.

Durante a Revolução Francesa, uma aristocrata escocesa e seu ex-amante, o duque de Orleães, se encontram em lados opostos do conflito.

A featurette directed by French actress Edwige Shaki where Eric Rohmer worked as a technical adviser, THE CURVE is a movie that has the inimitable Rohmer stamp. Talky, it makes its fifteen minutes seem a little longer. However, it's a playful little thing, where an art student meets his grandfather, a sculptor, and both exchange ideas about that part of the woman that is so alluring -- the curve of her back.

Magali, proprietária de uma vinícola na França, não tem um relacionamento sério desde a morte do marido. Sua amiga de infância Isabelle decide publicar um anúncio de jornal em busca do par perfeito para ela, e acaba conhecendo o simpático Gérald.

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.

Enquanto espera pela chegada da namorada em um resort da Bretanha, um homem se sente atraído por duas outras mulheres, uma cativante garçonete e a amiga dela. Durante as próximas três semanas, ele terá que escolher entre as três mulheres.

Rendezvous in Paris é um filme de comédia romântica francesa de 1995 escrito e dirigido por Éric Rohmer . O filme consiste em três episódios vagamente conectados que giram em torno de encontros casuais em Paris: "Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures" ("O encontro às 19h"), no qual uma estudante descobre que seu namorado está traindo ela; "Les Bancs de Paris" ("Os Bancos de Paris"), no qual uma mulher não identificada tem uma série de encontros em parques com um belo professor de literatura dos subúrbios; e "Mere et enfant 1907" ("Mãe e Filho 1907"), que leva o título de uma pintura de Picasso e centra-se em um artista que é atraído por uma estranha. As três histórias do filme são ligadas por uma garota cantando nas ruas com um acompanhamento de acordeão - uma homenagem a René Clair (1930).

The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.

Felicié vive um dilema: divorciada, se relaciona com dois homens, o livreiro Loic e seu chefe, o cabeleireiro Maxence. Na verdade, ela não consegue se decidir entre os dois porque não esquece Charles, o amante com quem perdeu contato 5 anos antes.

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.

Um jovem obcecado pelos verdadeiros sentimentos da namorada começa a pensar em todas as possibilidades quando a vê com outro homem. Seu encontro casual em um parque com uma garota de 15 anos o ajudará na sua missão. No fim, a verdade o atingirá na cabeça.

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.