A ravishing masterpiece from Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela stars an non-professional actor in a performance based upon her own life.. The painterly humanism that emerges is evocative of a neorealist classic.
A hypnotic tale of man versus nature, Calgary Cinematheque presents the Calgary Premiere of a Galician-language Cannes prizewinner.
Crowned as one of the best films of 2019, Honor Swinton Byrne (daughter of Tilda) stars in her breakout role as a 1980s British film student who begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke), much to the behest of her strict mother (Tilda Swinton).
Thirteen-year-old Phillip casually returns home to his widowed mother Astrid following a prolonged absence during which he camped out alone in the woods. What follows is a digressive, puzzle-box narrative, sometimes oneiric and irreal, sometimes played as absurd comedy, much of it circulating around intimations of family trauma and its legacies.
Asako is a young woman living in Osaka who falls for an attractive and inscrutable young man named Baku. A fling ensues. Alas, the relationship terminates on account of Baku’s sudden, mysterious, and eerily matter-of-fact disappearance. Flash forward, just over two years later. Asako is working at a coffee shop in Tokyo when she meets a bland salaryman named Ryôhei who happens to exactly resemble Baku.
