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Meshes Of The Afternoon and Inland Empire
99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Kristic)
The Occupy movement erupted in September 2011, propelling economic inequality into the spotlight. In an unprecedented collaboration, filmmakers across America tell its story, digging into big picture issues as organisers, analysts, participants and critics reveal how it happened and why.
Atlantics (Atlantique, Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story)
(Country: Senegal; Year: 2019; Director: Mati Diop; Writer: Mati Diop, Olivier Demangel; Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore, Nicole Sougou, Aminata Kane, Coumba Dieng, Ibrahima Mbaye, Diankou Sembene, Abdou Balde, Babacar Sylla, Arame Fall Faye, Ya Arame Mousse Sene, Babacar Samba, Astou N'Diaye, Khouda Fall)
Love and loss in Dakar are given a supernatural twist.
The Capsule
(Country: Greece; Year: 2012; Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari; Writer: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Aleksandra Waliszewska; Stars: Ariane Labed, Isolda Dychauk, Clémence Poésy, Evangelia Randou, Aurora Marion, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Sofia Dona, Ying Gao, Aleksandra Waliszewska)
Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood – infinitely.
Dead Man
(Country: US, Germany, Japan; Year: 1995; Director: Jim Jarmusch; Writer: Jim Jarmusch; Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Jared Harris, Billy Bob Thornton, Mili Avital, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Mark Bringleson, John North, Michelle Thrush, Alfred Molina)
Road movie about the friendship of a wounded young man in the western frontiers, who hooks up with a Native American.
Duvidha
(Country: India; Year: 1973; Director: Mani Kaul; Writer: Vijayadan Detha; Stars: Hardan, Manohar Lalas, Ravi Menon, Raisa Padamsee, Bhola Ram, Kana Ram)
A ghost story derived from a Rajasthani folktale.
The Headless Woman and The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Decasia
(Country: USA; Year: 2001; Director: Bill Morrison; Writer: Bill Morrison)
Think Mirroball for those who find Mirrorball lightweight.
Emerald (Morakot)
(Country: Thailand, Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Emerald (Morakot) is a derelict and defunct hotel in the heart of Bangkok that opened in an economic boom.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher (La Chute De La Maison Usher)
(Country: France; Year: 1928; Director: Jean Epstein; Writer: Luis Buñuel and Jean Epstein, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe; Stars: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard)
A loose adaptation of the Poe classic, with a lonely aristocrat obsessively painting his wife as she wastes away.
The Headless Woman (La Mujer Sin Cabeza)
(Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy; Year: 2008; Director: Lucrecia Martel; Writer: Lucrecia Martel; Stars: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Inés Efron, César Bordón, Daniel Genoud, Guillermo Arengo, María Vaner, Alicia Muxo, Pía Uribelarrea)
A woman's life goes off the rails after a mysterious car accident.
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod klepsydra)
(Country: Poland; Year: 1973; Director: Wojciech Has; Writer: Wojciech Has, based on stories by Bruno Schulz; Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska, Gustaw Holoubek, Mieczyslaw Voit, Bozena Adamek, Janina Sokolowska, Ludwik Benoit, Henryk Boukolowski, Seweryn Dalecki)
A young man searches through delapidated dreamscapes for his dead/live father.
Last Year In Marienbad and Pulse
Inland Empire
(Country: US/Poland/France; Year: 2006; Director: David Lynch; Writer: David Lynch; Stars: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter J. Lucas, Karolina Gruszka, Jan Hench, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Diane Ladd, Julia Ormond, Ian Abercrombie, Naomi Watts, Nastassja Kinski, Laura Harring)
A married actress falls for her
leading man whilst making a film about an illicit affair.
A Letter To Uncle Boonmee
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2009; Director: Apichatpong Weerasathakul)
A return visit to the site of a political massacre.
Last Year In Marienbad (L'Année Dernière A Marienbad, Last Year At Marienbad)
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1961; Director: Alain Resnais; Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet; Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Héléna Kornel, François Spira, Karin Toche-Mittler, Pierre Barbaud, Wilhelm von Deek, Jean Lanier)
A man tries to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before.
Luminous People
(Country: Thailand, Portugal; Year: 2007; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A group travels in a boat along Mekong River. It stretches along the Thai-Laos border which links the dead and the living.
Meshes Of The Afternoon
(Country: US; Year: 1943; Director: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid; Writer: Maya Deren; Stars: Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren)
A famous surrealist short in which a woman encounters doppelgangers.
The Spirit Of The Beehive and Vampyr
Pulse (Kairo)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2001; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Stars: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Karume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo, Shinji Takeda, Jun Fubuki, Shun Sugata, Sho Akaiwa, Koji Yakusho, Kenji Mizuhashi)
Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
Sarah Winchester
(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Bertrand Bonello; Writer: Bertrand Bonello; Stars: Marie-Agnès Gillot, Reda Kateb)
An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier.
The Settlers (Los Colonos)
(Country: Chile, Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Felipe Gálvez; Writer: Felipe Gálvez)
19th century drama. A man on an expedition is forced to take part in a massacre. Afterwards he forms a bond with the only survivor.
The Spirit Of The Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena)
(Country: Spain; Year: 1973; Director: Víctor Erice; Writer: Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos, Francisco J Querejeta; Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Ketty de la Cámara, Estanis González, José Villasante, Juan Margallo, Laly Soldevila, Miguel Picazo)
A screening of James Whale's Frankenstein alters how an impressionable young girl sees her world in 1940s Spain.
Vampyr (Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey, Vampyr - The Strange Adventure Of Allan Gray, Castle Of Doom, Adventures Of David Gray, Not Against The Flesh)
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 1932; Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer; Writer: Christen Jul, based on the novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Stars: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko)
A young occultist stumbles upon a French village shrouded in fog and haunted by a vampire.
Decasia and Dead Man
Yella
(Country: Germany; Year: 2007; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Simone Baer, Christian Petzold; Stars: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaußner, Barbara Auer, Christian Redl, Selin Bademsoy, Wanja Mues, Michael Wittenborn, Martin Brambach, Joachim Nimtz)
Metaphysical thriller about a woman trying to escape her past and build a future.
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