A man wakes up and mysteriously finds himself trapped in an empty, white rectangular room, wearing clownish bright yellow polka dot pajamas. Where is he? Who did this to him? How did he end up here? Will he manage to make him escape to safety? Meanwhile, in a Mexican dusty town, a green-masked wrestler known as Escargot man prepares for an important match. As the nameless prisoner appears closer to escape and Escargot man steps into the ring, filmmaker Matsumoto amplifies the baffling yet suspenseful atmosphere to a crescendo of ridiculous excess.
Tehran. June 2009. The uproar of a city swinging with the “Green Wave” of protest to the rigged presidential election. An apartment as a shelter. A man and a woman who belong to two different generations. A mobile phone and a computer to communicate with the free world. A love story, that will change two lives.
Autumn of 2017. The Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal begins its first international tour of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls. This series of concerts is the crowning and paroxysm of the rich relationship between the musicians and their leader, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Over four seasons, Jean-Nicolas Orhon’s camera follows the preparation of this international adventure and gently penetrates the daily life of the orchestra. Ensemble reveals the precious role of the maestro, exposes the excitement behind the scenes, displays the intimacy of the musicians and poses a new and delicate look on those whose life sublimes the l...
YONG LE, a young migrant worker from the south, salvages furniture to re-sell. He lives in a room in Beijing’s Underground City, a labyrinthian former bomb shelter that serves as cheap housing for people looking for opportunity in the big city. But after a bad work accident leaves him temporarily blind, he has to use a rope to find his way around the dimly lit basement halls, until the night he meets a girl at the other end of his rope… XIAO YUN, is a migrant too. She is desperately trying to find new employment so that she can leave her job pole dancing at nights. At ground level, old LAO JIN has been struggling for years to get a de...
This DVD box set includes 2 Tsai Ming-Liang movies.
In Journey to The West, we follow a monk on his way through the streets of a sun-dappled Marseille.
In Stray Dogs, An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
