Female Perversions

The Sideways Light

2014 · ★ 4

Lily is haunted by memories while her mother, Ruth, loses her own.

Phantom Halo

2014 · ★ 5.9

Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at what price?

Hide and Seek

2013 · ★ 8

A school girl visits a house to take a koto lesson. She meets her teacher and her son and they seem to be playing "HIDE and SEEK" in the house. Koto lesson starts but the girl soon realizes that there's something very odd about the teacher.

Fiela's Child

1988 · ★ 8

The acclaimed drama based on Dalene Matthee´s award-winning novel. "Fiela se Kind" (Fiela's Child) is the story of a white foundling boy that is raised by a brown family. But the childs life changes irrevocably when white census officials discover him living across the established borders of society, and he is removed from his foster parents. "This is the moving story about a close family being torn apart by the social convictions of the day. It is the story of a mother´s enduring love and hope to see her taken son again. Fiela is a down to earth woman farmer who does not let anyone step on her. She raised a white castaway child, Benjamin, and teaches him the simple things in life."

Home

1998 · ★ 6.9

A local council worker inspects three homes.

Saute ma ville

1968 · ★ 6.2

Suburbs of Brussels. A young woman locks herself in the kitchen of her apartment, as she blissfully devotes herself to dismantling the household chores, frenetically humming as she goes. A burlesque pamphlet against female alienation.

Gasman

1998 · ★ 6.4

A story of two children who react with naive simple emotion to a situation imposed upon them by their father's secret.

Kill the Day

1996 · ★ 6.3

A desperate drug addict breaks into a locker and steals a bag for his next fix, a small crime that lands him behind bars. In prison, he’s a loner, baited by guards who want to see him snap and lose his shot at parole.

Small Deaths

1996 · ★ 6.6

Based on personal memories and experiences of childhood, set in and around a Glasgow housing scheme. A triptych of moments of reflection and loss in one girl's childhood and adolescence.

Alsasua 1936

1994 · ★ 10

Based on the life of Marino Ayerra, who was appointed as parson priest of Alsasua (Navarra) two days before the start of the Spanish Civil War.

The Warrior

After several years on the frontline, Sasha, a female sniper in the Ukrainian army, returns to her home village, determined to forget the war and return to a peaceful life. But she finds out that her father, a forester, disappeared because of his resistance to illegal loggers who are destroying the century-old Carpathian forest. Alone against all odds, she decides to bring justice.

The Rosa Parks Story

2002 · ★ 7.1

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.