If There Be Thorns (2015)

Kokubu, captain of his university’s kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the…

It’s like almost all is lost. Yet still they are here – abandoned bungalows, an artificial lake, dirty plastic bottles, lost donkeys and stray dogs, draining pipes running over fields…

A veiled village woman’s life changes when city visitors challenge her traditions. As she questions customs and investigates a curse, rumors of Sati emerge, leading her to confront societal norms.

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This…

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of…

A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just “one more fix”.

A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.

From the French nation of Caminelle to a winery in Maine, a defiant prince and orphaned girl take parallel paths to find each other but must first unravel a plot…

A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers…

All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.

The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is…