Film in the third group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, which made a stir with the participation of numerous up-and-coming directors. Vibrator director Hiroki Ryuichi shoots on his home turf in Fukushima Prefecture, and portrays interwoven lives in a seaside town. Victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, volunteers helping out with reconstruction, reporters covering the damage, and a production crew shooting a porn movie. Unexpected encounters emerge in a seaside town in Fukushima Prefecture, still deeply marked by damage from the earthquake.
A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
Hamdan is a former Palestinian leader who spent 15 years locked up in the old Israeli prisons. In 1973, while living in Syria, he was given a mission to smuggle explosives across the border and train a person he trusted.
After her father’s sudden death, Feride takes on the role of the father in the family. Her mother, Nurcan, desperately tries to replace her lost husband with Feride, while her brother, İlker, starts to drift away from the family.
When a lonely man finds out the love of his life has a conjoined twin, who happens to be a serial killer, he must take drastic measures to keep his love life intact while keeping himself out of big trouble.
A woman and young daughter escape her abusive husband by faking their deaths. Eight years later she is happily living in the upscale Palm Springs with her now-17-year-old daughter.
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Così fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all.
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