Films
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A surgeon hides his injured daughter while pursuing a series of experiments intended to restore her face.
A woman disappears from a rocky island, and the search slowly exposes a different kind of absence.
Rome, glamour, emptiness — beautiful and exhausting.
A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.
A young refugee woman supports her family after Partition while each relative treats her sacrifice as a resource that will continue indefinitely.
A family’s island life depends on the repeated labour of bringing water across the sea.
In a vast hotel, a man insists that a woman promised to leave with him last year—or perhaps in another version of the past.
A governess becomes convinced that two children and their country house are haunted by a corrupt past.
Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.
A child scout crosses wartime marshes while dreams preserve a world already lost.
Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.
Poetry, daily routine, and direct observation meet inside an Iranian leper colony.
A director unable to make his next film retreats into memories, fantasies, and an ever-growing production circus.
A lonely newspaper editor’s wife discovers her literary voice and a dangerous emotional intimacy when his poet cousin comes to stay.
Four stories move through pre-revolutionary Cuba with a camera that seems able to cross walls, crowds, water, and history.
Falstaff’s warmth, vanity, and appetite fill the space between a prince’s youth and a king’s responsibilities.
An icon painter crosses a violent medieval landscape while doubt interrupts both faith and artistic work.
A young Senegalese woman travels to France for domestic work and discovers that the promised new life confines her to an apartment and a role imposed by others.
A feud between medieval clans becomes a harsh encounter between desire, violence and competing beliefs.
Love, rivalry, performance, and filmmaking overlap within Tokyo’s late-1960s gay counterculture.
Work, family, play, and fatigue shape daily life in a Black neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
New York is photographed as a romance while its adults make a series of far less graceful choices.
An angel listening to Berlin’s private thoughts begins to long for weight, colour, touch, and one mortal life.
In a collapsing rural settlement, the return of a persuasive man reorganises hope, money, and betrayal.
A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.
A father, a daughter, and a horse repeat the work of survival as wind and light begin to withdraw from their world.
A young novice meets her aunt and learns that the life awaiting her rests beside a family history she never knew.
Two journeys decades apart follow an Indigenous shaman and Western visitors through an Amazon scarred by extraction and memory.
Two musicians repeatedly find and lose one another as borders, politics, and temperament change the terms of their love.
A radio journalist caring for his young nephew learns that listening professionally and listening lovingly are different skills.
Two Black women reconnect in 1920s New York, where visibility, safety, desire, and identity never align neatly.
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Read a film closely
Character companions, film comparisons and a closer look at particular scenes.
- Seven Samurai
Who are the seven samurai?
Names, actors and roles to keep the seven apart.
- The Wages of Fear
The original, Sorcerer, or the remake?
Three films compared before you choose.
- Breathless
What disappears in a jump cut?
A diagram of the time Godard leaves out.
- Wild Strawberries
What do the dreams mean?
Trace the clocks, mirror and final scene.
After watching · Spoilers - Persona
Why hear the same speech twice?
Follow who speaks and whose face fills the frame.
After watching · Spoilers - Bicycle Thieves
What happens at the end?
The final encounter, seen through father and son.
After watching · Spoilers