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The Woodsman and the Rain is an oddball laid-back comedy starring the great Japanese actor Koji Yakusho as Katsu, a 60 year-old lumberjack who lives in a small, tranquil mountain village. When a film crew suddenly arrives to shoot a zombie movie, Katsu finds himself unwittingly roped into assisting the production.
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Mid-15th century Japan. Flood, drought and famine have transformed the landscape of the capital of Kyoto into a barren wasteland. More than 80,000 have perished in the three years between 1459 and 1461. This desolate state served as the backdrop to the beginning of the country’s greatest civil war. The victims of this dark period [...]
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Working both as a serious social issue film and a gripping thriller, Lucy Mulloy’s exuberant Havana set debut boasts winning performances from a trio of young newcomers. Raul dreams of escaping to Miami and begs his best friend, Elio, to abandon everything and help him but his friend is torn between protecting his sister and [...]
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Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal subject for an insightful and captivating documentary. Tracing the early history as part of The Studio with fellow artists Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith and Michael William Kaluta through [...]
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Glam rock helped define the 1970s, a decade in which sexual attitudes where changing rapidly – although not rapidly enough for Jobriath. Elektra Records spent vast sums on launching the talented, and first openly gay, pop singer as the US Bowie, but it was not to be. Jobriath A.D. is a sensitive, remarkable and sometimes [...]
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Before the excellent Tabu, Miguel Gomes made the intricate, uncategorizable Our Beloved Month of August, emerging as a leading talent in the currently flourishing Portuguese cinema. A tantalizing mix of documentary and fiction, it is an intoxicating love song to rural Portugal. In the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. [...]
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A hugely entertaining documentary profile of Ralf König, Germany‘s most successful cartoonist. Wittily playing with queer clichés and providing a razor sharp critique of modern society’s conflicted relationships with gay culture, he also reaches a wide heterosexual audience. König became famous with his comic book The Most Desired Man that was made into a film [...]
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Wolf Children is the long-awaited new anime from Mamoru Hosoda, director of LIFF favourite Summer Wars. When Hana falls in love, it feels like a fairy tale. She starts a family and has two beautiful children – Yuki (Snow), a girl, and Ame (Rain), a boy. But the family harbours a secret: their father is [...]
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Lukas is a scientist chosen to take part in an experiment in which he enters the mind of a comatose girl. In her surreal subconscious world he meets and falls obsessively in love with her. Rather than sharing his results, he tells the research team very little so that they will plug him in again. [...]
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Despite things having gone a little awry towards the end of the first film, we return to the fray to find that things are still on the up and up for Griffith and his Band of the Hawks as they prove themselves to be ever more invaluable to Midland and their quest to regain land [...]
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