Sweet Things, directed by Henry K. Norvalls, tackles the harassment of women, not through overt misbehavior, but the subtle lack of respect exhibited in the workplace by men with power. It is based on a real life situation with a woman… Continue Reading
Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German-Austrian comedy-drama film directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade in which a practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach. It stars Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller. The… Continue Reading
A satirical riff on the old saying, ‘I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…’ The story of a guy in a dead end desk job who has reached his emotional boiling point. A short film directed… Continue Reading
Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Bob Hoskins and Ian Holm between others. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his… Continue Reading
A depressed sanitation worker wants to quit. But when a curse from a raccoon turns him into an ever growing trash magnet threatening to swallow up everything he loves, he must confront his fate and become the Garbage Man. Alan… Continue Reading
After a pair of colleagues have an affair on a business trip they decide it might be for the best if it just never happened. If you can erase the traces of bad behaviour, what is the harm? Rather than be… Continue Reading
He just lost his job. She just got dumped. These two strangers meet at a bus stop right when they needed each other the most. In an impromptu attempt to cheer each other up they go on an tour of… Continue Reading
In Sue Lost in Manhattan (1997), the Israeli director Amos Kollek presents a moving portrait of a young unemployed woman in New York, who is being overwhelmed by loneliness and goes in search of human warmth. It is a touching… Continue Reading
Deux jours, une nuit (two days, one night in the english version) is a 2014 Belgian-French-Italian drama film written and directed by the Dardenne brothers, starring Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione. Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in… Continue Reading