Around the Fire (1998)

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his…

Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for…

The lives of five unrelated people — a husband, a doctor, a wife, a student, and a young daughter — are turned upside-down with irreversible consequences.

A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter, who’s dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less…

Elisa is a twelve-year-old girl who, after her mother’s accidental death, tries to convince her father that she has been gifted the same superpowers as the heroine from her favorite…

The story is about Iris’s rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral…

A young couple in Berlin’s ‘Mitte’ district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can’t stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the…

During the Turkish artistic revolution of the 1930s, a group of pioneers staged Özsoy Opera, the first opera in the history of Turkish Republic.

Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui.

A married couple falls into depression after the death of their child. They turn to sex as a coping mechanism, but poverty takes its toll on them.

An old man living with his only daughter tries to keep her close to him by any means, although she is married. With longing for what was, the daughter becomes…

A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.