Leopards of Locarno
From postwar neorealism to contemporary slow cinema, Locarno has championed artistic, experimental, and avant-garde filmmaking since 1946. These films come from far and wide, all winners of the Golden Leopard, driven not by commercial interests but by the spirit of pushing the boundaries of cinema into new realms.
Vitalina Varela
A Cape Verdean woman travels to Lisbon to reunite with her husband after two decades, but arrives soon after his funeral.
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- Portugal • 2019
- Director Pedro Costa
- Cast Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Lina Varela, Manuel Tavares Almeida
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Right Now, Wrong Then
(지금은맞고그때는틀리다)
Two parts: a married film director travels to a new town and falls in love with a young painter一twice.
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- Korea • 2015
- Director Hong Sang-soo
- Cast Jung Jae-young, Kim Min-hee, Youn Yuh-jung, Ki Joo-bong, Choi Hwa-jeong, Yu Jun-sang
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Fandor, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
From What Is Before
(Mula sa kung ano ang noon)
An extraordinary epic that relates the strange, perhaps supernatural, occurrences that befall a remote village in the Philippine countryside.
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- Philippines • 2014
- Director Lav Diaz
- Cast Perry Dizon, Roeder, Hazel Orencio, Karenina Haniel, Reynan Abcede, Mailes Kanapi
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, OVID, Kanopy
Silent Waters
(Khamosh Pani: Silent Waters)
The Water Stirs
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- Pakistan, France, Germany • 2003
- Director Sabiha Sumar
- Cast Kirron Kher, Aamir Ali Malik, Arshad Mahmood, Salman Shahid, Shilpa Shukla, Sarfaraz Ansari
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on FlixFling, Kanopy
The Mirror
(آینه)
When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into an exploration of the nature of film itself.
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- Iran • 1997
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Mina Mohammad Khani, Kazem Mojdehi, Naser Omuni, M. Shirzad, T. Samadpour
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Distant Voices, Still Lives
A view of a working-class family in Liverpool during the 40s and 50s based on Terrence Davies own childhood experiences.
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- United Kingdom, West Germany • 1988
- Director Terence Davies
- Cast Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Angela Walsh, Lorraine Ashbourne, Dean Williams, Sally Davies
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandor, Cineverse
Chakra
A single mother tries to raise a moral son in the desperate slums of Bombay.
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- India • 1981
- Director Rabindra Dharmaraj
- Cast Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Rohini Hattangadi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Anjali Paigankar, Salim Ghouse
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Illumination
(Iluminacja)
A decade in the life of a physics student whose faith in reason is shaken by love and tragedy.
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- Poland • 1973
- Director Krzysztof Zanussi
- Cast Stanislaw Latallo, Małgorzata Pritulak, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Jan Skotnicki, Edward Żebrowski, Wlodzimierz Zonn
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Black Peter
(Černý Petr)
Petr's shyness complicates his job as a security guard, his interactions with beautiful Asa, and his relationship with his father.
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- Czechoslovakia • 1964
- Director Miloš Forman
- Cast Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martínková, Jan Vostrčil, Vladimír Pucholt, Pavel Sedláček, Zdeněk Kulhánek
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Fires on the Plain
(野火)
A tubercular private in the Japanese army struggles to survive in the twilight of the Second World War.
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- Japan • 1959
- Director Kon Ichikawa
- Cast Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Mantarō Ushio, Kyū Sazanka, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Gate of Hell
(地獄門)
The most honored screen import in a decade!
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- Japan • 1953
- Director Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Cast Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyō, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa, Kōtarō Bandō, Jun Tazaki
- Genre Drama, History, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Germany, Year Zero
(Germania anno zero)
The country is obliterated, the buildings are dilapidated and the people are desolated.
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- Italy, France, Germany • 1948
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne, Heidi Blänkner
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max