©Courtesy of Film Movement Love Letter : Despite the years that have passed, Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) is still grieving the death of her fiancé, who died unexpectedly while climbing a mountain. When Hiroko discovers her deceased lover’s childhood address, she impulsively writes to him, and is shocked to receive a letter in reply. However,…
©Courtesy of Film Movement Renoir : Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift — her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with…
©Courtesy of BNB Films/Match Frame Production Agent of Happiness, a documentary about the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan that debuted at Sundance, will be released in North America later this year by Film Movement. Cinephil has licensed the rights to agents in the United Kingdom and most of Europe as well as Australia, New Zealand, and…
In an age where, in progressive circles, the need for consent in even the earliest relationship stages is emphasized, the fact that arranged marriages still exist can seem quite jarring. Different cultures have particular values and traditions that have dictated the way in which their communities couple and reproduce, and while those have evolved over…
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