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For his 27th feature, Hong holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art. As his characters discuss their lives and work and the ways they intertwine, Hong sets down a sort of manifesto for his own inimitable oeuvre before exploding it (or perhaps fully realizing it) in a moving final flourish.  The Novelist’s Film is a summation of Hong’s career-long artistic project, even as it signals bold new directions.

The final feature in Matías Piñeiro's series of films inspired by the women of Shakespeare's comedies is his most structurally daring and visually stunning work to date.Isabella is a film about the ongoing battle between doubt and ambition that never discounts the possibility of a new beginning.

The Zürcher brothers compose a poetic panopticon of forms of human relationships that is at once a study of everyday life, a fairytale and a psychological portrait of a brittle world. A winner at the Berlinale, The Girl and the Spider is about human togetherness, a ballad about the need for closeness and the pain of separation.

This brand new three disc Blu-ray box set includes three films from Hong Sangsoo.  Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Our Sunhi and Oki's Movie.

A selection of the Cannes Film Festival, Hong Sangsoo again works his magic in this tale of an aging actress played by Lee Hyeyoung, meeting with a director in Seoul  to stage a comeback film. With In Front of Your Face, Hong suggests that perhaps the most important things in this life are also the most immediate.

An electrifying pairing of two of the brightest young stars in cinema in director Kazik Radwanski (Tower, How Heavy This Hammer) and rising talent Deragh Campbell (I Used to Be Darker), Anne at 13,000 ft reveals a director and star in perfect synch. From a rip-roaring skydive to moments of quiet reverie, Radwanski captures Anne’s experience with an unflinching directness, a volatile mix of Dardenne brothers immediacy and Cassavetes naturalism.

To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Provocative, unique, and strikingly cinematic, 499 mixes non-fictional and performative elements with elements of the road movie to show how past traumas continue to affect contemporary reality.

For his twenty-fifth feature as director and his first as cinematographer, Hong Sangsoo offers a simple tale of young people on the edge of adulthood. Introduction cuts to the essence of who we are as people, like an unexpected hug on a winter's day.

The 24th feature from Hong Sangsoo, follows Gamhee (Kim Minhee), who has three separate encounters with friends while her husband is on a business trip. With characteristic humor and grace, Hong takes a simple premise and spins a web of interconnecting philosophies and coincidences. THE WOMAN WHO RAN is a subtle, powerful look at dramas small and large faced by women everywhere.

From master director Jia Zhang-Ke (Ash Is Purest White, A Touch of Sin) comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE is an indispensable account of a changing China from one of the country's foremost cinematic storytellers.