The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream.
Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend’s house and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their stormy reunion.
Hakamada: The Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate In The World
2019• Documentary
When conviction is guaranteed, justice is lost. On the 30th of June, 1966, in a small country-side town in Japan, four members of the Hashimoto family are stabbed and burnt to death in their family home. The savagery of the crime shakes the country and shortly after, 30-year-old retired boxer Iwao Hakamada is arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Hakamada, a new documentary, tells the heart-rending tale of a death row convict kept in solitary confinement for more than half-a-century before being granted a retrial in 2014.
=> Original version with English subtitles.
Félix and Meira is a story of an unconventional romance between two people living vastly different realities mere blocks away from one another. Each lost in their everyday lives, Meira (Hadas Yaron), a Hasidic Jewish wife and mother and Félix (Martin Dubreuil), a Secular loner mourning the recent death of his estranged father, unexpectedly meet in a local bakery in Montreal’s Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two wayward strangers find comfort in one another. As Félix opens Meira’s eyes to the world outside of her tight-knit Orthodox community, her desire for change becomes har...
Un homme introverti rêve de séduire sa voisine en écrivant un scénario de film. Il trouve un producteur par l’intermédiaire d’une annonce ; celui-ci lui promet de réaliser son rêve. Cultissime 3ème film de Alexandre Rockwell, une perle du cinéma indépendant américain avec Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals, Will Patton, Jim Jarmusch… Indispensable pour tout fan de John Cassavetes.
VOD en VOSTFR.
Pour le coffret DVD contenant 3 films de Alexandre Rockwell (Sweet Thing, In The Soup et Little Feet), cliquez ici.
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