Festival of Swordsmen (1961)

Three Yakuza

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.

Object: Alimony

Ruth Butler, a clerk in an emporium, marries Jimmy Rutledge and thereby greatly displeases his mother, the owner of the emporium, because of Ruth's lowly origins. Renaud Graham, one of Mrs. Rutledge's friends, becomes interested in Ruth, forces his way into her apartment, and attempts to make violent love to her. Jimmy walks in on their embrace and, suspecting the worst, leaves Ruth. In the family way, Ruth finds refuge in a boardinghouse where she meets Al Bryant, an aspiring writer. Ruth tells Al her life story, and he makes it into a bestselling novel and then into a play. Jimmy sees the play and comes to his senses, winning Ruth's forgiveness.

Song of Goats

Andreas arrives on a remote Greek island to sell a plot of land inherited from his uncle. But who would buy a barren, rocky field with a stone hut? In order to sell the plot Andreas has to pay off a debt his uncle ran up with Yiannis, a local farmer.

Rate Me

A portrait of teen escort, 'Coco'.

Taanakkaran

A group of police recruits encounter horrific treatment at their police training school. Will they overcome the hardships or fall victims to the abusive system?

Blue Boy

A coming of age drama set in Texas, about a suburban teen boy, estranged from his family, who enlists the help of his dysfunctional friends to become a professional motorcycle racer.

Siempre la duda

Bloqueio

Brazil, May 2018. Presidential elections are approaching as the economic and political crisis intensifies. Amid the chaos, the class of truck drivers, responsible for the supply of large cities, starts a blockade on the roads, aggravating tensions. However, amidst the demands for better working conditions, there is also a discourse for the military intervention that distorts.

Bad Romance

7 young men and women and their three stories involved with heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual affairs that happened in Beijing. A single mom meets a young student; A city boy meets a guy of his dream; A girl falls into a love game of a male and a female fellows in her French class.

Das Kino ist tot, es lebe das Kino - Berlinale-Beobachtungen

Sintomático

Blue Flames

Ryuuichi is a high-school student tired of living in a small town with small people. He's determined to claw his way to the top of Tokyo, and he'll use any woman he can to do it.

A World Full of Hope

Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina

The sequel of the first one

Me sobra un marido

An entomologist returns to Buenos Aires, after a long expedition in Africa. Upon arrival he finds that his wife, who had not heard from him in a long time, has remarried.