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- A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
- American Raphael talks his colleague at the Parisian University into spending his summer at the family's country mansion. But once there Raphael seduces and plays the sisters and mother against each other - until everyone is revealed at their very worst. As it turns out - that was Raphael's intention all along - because his own torrid past is deeply rooted in their family's dirty history.
- A woman explores her sexuality to cope with the passing of her mother, leading her to profound revelations about herself and the people closest to her.
- A skilled portraitist and a respected police captain put aside their bad blood to work together and solve cases using methods that can only be described as uncanny.
- A mother and daughter head off for a secluded weekend to reconnect little do they know the sordid past of the home there staying in or the strangeness it attracts as they descend into madness.
- A valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.
- Passion, criminal instincts an traditions melt together in this film, that shakes our conception of crime.
- The early 50s: Joe Dunn, owner of a boxing club, is found dead. Meanwhile, rising star Robert Yale, due to take to the ring for the most important fight of his career, has mysteriously disappeared. Sonia Dunn, Joe's daughter, takes over the club and must deal with its financial woes. She hires private detective John Blacksad to investigate Yale's disappearance and to find the missing man. This sinister case will take our investigator to the darkest, most dismal depths of New York. With its anthropomorphic characters and its incredible 1950s feel, BLACKSAD: Under the Skin promises all the eerily dark adventure of a detective novel, just like the eponymous comic book series. Investigations, searches for clues, fights, witness interviews: let your feline instinct guide you as you infiltrate the corrupt world of boxing.
- When the words don't come out, the body will do the talking.
- Onderhuids tells the story of Keesje, an introvert 15-year old. She and her friends, Lize and Dunja, swim together in a synchronized swimming team. From the outside it all looks like the perfect friendship, but behind the surface hide continuous tensions between the girls. Keesje is constantly afraid of being rejected and longs to maintain her position in the group. While the team is training for the National Synchronized Swimming Competition, Keesje tries to hold her own within her group of friends. She allows herself to be dragged into the vicious behavior of Lize and Dunja, but is gradually becoming alienated from herself. While Lize and Dunja are good with words, Keesje's strength is in her physical. While the pressure for the match increases, Keesje loses sight of who she is. She constantly fears she will lose out. Although she tries to suppress her frustrations, an outburst is the inevitable consequence.
- From the simple story of love and misery of a young couple from the Harlem ghetto to meetings with twelve great blues singers (BB King, Mance Lipscomb, Robert Pete Williams, Roosevelt Sykes), filmed in their social milieu.
- 'Ripples Under the Skin' is a story of contestations - contestation of space, resources, claims, narratives... of a community struggling to carve out a living out of a dying profession contending with a city that both embraces and marginalizes, of a profession that thrives of supplying water to homes... water that doesn't discriminate yet over whom many wars have been fought... wars of caste, class, religion... of muslim migrant workers supplying water to homes that are inviting and uninviting, of homes that they are sustained over the labour of these people, yet homes that the same people can never claim as their own, of memory and forgetting, of dreams and spectres... above all, this is a story of struggles... the daily struggles of Nazim kaka as he tries to make a living in this city, the struggles of a Calcutta that is home to Nazim kaka, a Calcutta of hand pulled rickshaws, trams, of immigrant people that is fast fading away amidst the glitz of the 'smart city' that is getting built over the blood and sweat and corpses of shadow people.
- In one of his daily wanderings, Ghassem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding each other's words, they strike up a friendship and the girl accepts to sleep with him. But Ghassem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is to depart by the next morning. Together they set off on the glistening yet hostile streets of modernizing Tehran of the 70s, in a futile search of a corner of intimacy, while time is ticking away....
- An art film that explores Anish Kapoor's creative universe and his relation to art. A vertiginous quest into existence, confronting the conditions of matter, the dynamics of perception and the power of ritual.
- Two women unwittingly help each other over the course of an evening spent together in a psychiatric ward.
- TV Series
- Newton Craddock is a shipping clerk in the same company where Thomas Kirkland is Vice President. Another thing they have in common is that they both have jealous wives who like spending all of their husbands' money. One day Craddock is sent to Kirkland's house to deliver an important letter, and while there he watches as Kirkland finally confronts his wife about her spendthrift ways. It gives Newton the gumption to do the same to his wife--but will he?
- The narrative of ten years of the life of a man who tortures his two wives and his family mentally and physically, so that both wives get Alzheimer's and die.
- A SET OF EVERYDAY STORIES ABOUT HOW BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE RACISM AND APARTHEID.
- Presenting Performance art film, 'Nude Me/Under the Skin: A Resurrection of Black Women's Visibility' is a collaboration between textile and performance artist Enam Gbewonyo and Director Freddie Leyden. The film unfolds at Two Temple Place - an opulent neo-Gothic mansion in London (UK). Inspired by the architecture, Freddie and Enam created a film in conversation with those surroundings. The film like Enam's wider work explores the nuances of the Global North's empirical history and its very direct effects on the Black British diaspora, in particular the women of this community. These themes are explored through the language of dance using ballet inspired movement and agbadza - a traditional Ewe (Ghana) dance of Enam's heritage. The film is a conversation between the small frame of this black female body and an expansiveness of architecture - masonry and carpentry. The film also provides a moment of healing for a community emerging from a period of continuous emotional triggers and physical harm.
- A loner who found happiness after a magical evening.
- Julie, a young Latina conga player, movies into a new home. Tensions fly with Teresa, her older upstairs neighbor when Julie practices her passion.
- 'Under the Skin' is an experimental art film that presents in an unconventional and emotional way the creative universe of one of the most iconic artists of our century. Anish Kapoor returns to the emblematic city of Rome and presents at MACRO an astonishing exhibition of his latest work: intimate, shocking and dialectic between terror and sublime. The narration investigates, confronts and explores the conditions of matter, the dynamics of perception and the power of ritual. A vertiginous quest into existence.
- Experimental documentary about women forced to use Norplant.
- A moving personal story in which the anonymous central character describes the harrowing details of life with an eating disorder. L has suffered this condition for many years, and reveals what brought her to this point, along with her hopes and dreams for a brighter future. Professional experts discuss the reality of life for the many thousands who endure eating disorders.