Floating Weeds

Sunma no aji (1962) er originaltitlen på den japanske mesterinstruktør Yasujiro Ozu’s sidste film. For en sjælden gangs skyld en film i farver fra hans side, men emnet er velkendt: Efterkrigstidens Japan og dens indflydelse på familielivet …

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

I 1700-tallets England bliver en ung knægt taget under en lykkeridders vinger. De kommer på sporet af en skjult skat og snart starter en masse spænding og eventyr.

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband ret…

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

Jonathan, a kind-hearted young man, is released from prison due to lack of evidence. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house by the dunes. Jonathan wants to forget the past and is determined to become a different and better pers…

In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source…

In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings. Akerman journeys from East Germany to Moscow between the late summer and winter of 1993 ('while there’s still t…

In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his …

Røveren Walker tror, han skal dele et bytte med sin kompagnon, Mal, men bliver i stedet skudt ned af Mal, der stikker af med 93.000 dollars og Walkers kone. Et par år senere vender en sammenbidt og målrettet Walker tilbage for at få hævn og…

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

A young Belgian is incited by his imam to view a teacher as an apostate and assassinate her; after he fails, he is sent to juvenile reform.

Solaris er et filosofisk foruroligende portræt af menneskets destruktive interaktion med omverdenen. Filmen er en visuel tour de force, der tematisk kredser om kærlighed, bevidsthed, personlig identitet, erindring og ikke mindst forsoning o…

Forretningsmanden Yusheng vender hjem til sin landsby i det nordlige Kina for at deltage i sin fars begravelse. Hans mor insisterer på et traditionelt begravelsesoptog, selv om denne skik sjældent bliver fulgt længere. Yusheng tænker tilbag…

Indretningsarkitekten Jan og komponist-playboyen Brad har aldrig mødt hinanden - men Jan hader alligevel Brad af et godt hjerte. For de deler telefonlinje, og Brad lægger konstant beslag på forbindelsen, når han sludrer med sine mange elske…

Filmen foregår i Makedonien og handler om Hatidze, som hver dag spadserer op ad bjergsiden for at se til sine bistader. I stille sang tømmer hun forsigtigt staderne for honning uden brug af hverken net eller handsker. Tilbage i sit lille hu…