So Close, So Far
Zhu Yudi’s almost painfully riveting debut feature chronicles the life of a gambler—the filmmaker’s own father—as he casts his family into spiraling debt with each new “can’t fail” investment in Chinese building construc
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Zhu Yudi’s almost painfully riveting debut feature chronicles the life of a gambler—the filmmaker’s own father—as he casts his family into spiraling debt with each new “can’t fail” investment in Chinese building construc
After the divorce 14-year old Nina lives with her father, a UFO-observer. He's not the warmest of fathers, which troubles their relationship. One night, when he is out looking for aliens, she takes his car to go to a par
Close Up is a provocative and potentially dangerous pulling together of two opposing aspects of film form - namely, a 'documentartist' soundtrack comprising interview material with Nicaraguan revolutionaries on the subje
Animated film by Ernesto Piña.
Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that the husband left the wife for his lover eight years ago. But now they are together aga
Two brothers clean up a cottage in the woods. Why doesn't seem to matter. What does, are the emotions that are uncovered.
Made for the 20th anniversary of London’s Close-Up Film Centre, Close Up was created as part of a programme inviting fifty filmmakers to respond to a place dedicated to cinema. Rivers’ two-minute 16mm miniature becomes a
Jéssica, Suyanne, Bruna and Nathália are detained in the Prison Unit, located in Aquiraz, Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza. A place, several stories, the same hope shared by all: to resist and fight for the end of prejud
A redneck encounters aliens. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Film Competition, 2013.
Strangers in a waiting room become the characters in Claire's recounting of her troubled life and the secrets of a turbulant marriage.
Fragments of the lives of fourteen women form a unique composition in which reality and symbolism alternate, an echo of all other possible lives.
Pressure mounts as a young woman puts on her makeup.
told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately tries to regain everything he has lost in his life; his wife and child
Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and de
A trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself.
Keane finds a box of his absent father’s negatives. He prints the images in a darkroom’s red glow. As he and his mother Diane look through distant exposures from the half-past, the prints expose a life that was always ou
Sometimes, what is closest to us is the most unattainable.
Dani is a 23-year-old virgin on a mission to finally "do it", but her plans get squashed when she finds out she has a yeast infection. Convinced that losing her virginity is what she needs to move forward in life, she se
Roomates Ellie and Eric swear to their friends that they are just friends. But as Ellie grapples with the challenges of finishing her thesis, Eric makes a grand gesture that changes everything.