Three Days in Tlaquepaque

Portrait of a Smile

2024 · ★ 10

Sent spiraling after the unexpected discovery of his girlfriend's suicide, Liam sifts through the memories of their relationship that he now must reinterpret.

Tomorrow Is a Long Time

2024 · ★ 6

Life is not the most fulfilling for sixteen-year-old Meng: Lounging at home with his grieving father on a daily basis, being excluded from his family’s past, and forced into bullying other kids at school. Everything changes when he is thrown into a life-altering adventure that propels him into an exciting unfamiliar landscape.

The Straight Story

1999 · ★ 7.7

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

Paper and Ivy

2024

The short film *Paper and Ivy* tells a story of self-love, queer love, and unrequited love through imaginative metaphors. With few words, but through ivy vines, flowing piano music, singing, and drawings, it describes the feeling of being different, the self-hatred that can come with it, and the eventual acceptance of one’s own individuality.

The Blue Angel

1930 · ★ 7.3

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Candyman

1992 · ★ 6.7

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Tranquility

Tranquility is a silent short film centering feelings of emptiness and the search for fulfillment.

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001 · ★ 7.5

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

Underground

1928 · ★ 6.8

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...

I Demand Payment

1938 · ★ 5

A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion racket, then finds herself becoming involved with the doctor who has saved her life and become attracted to her.

Lazarus Heroification

Lazarus Heroification is a tale of distinct characters who have an invincible demand for attention developed due to their hopeless and lonely existence. Kaustav is a labourer working for a capitalist for undue hours and carrying loads for him. He is now willing to fight over carrying an extra sack of sand. Deepak has been in a one-sided love affair for years and decides to propose the love of her life a day before her wedding. Aakansha who is an Athiest gets to know the 'Idea of God' on her visit to the church. An Artist who has been portraying beauty for a long time has found irrational means of satisfying his Egoist personality. When a memory unites all of their lives.

Ikiru

1952 · ★ 8.3

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.