Three women are stalked and haunted across generations by a supernatural force in the disappointing and formless horror film The Wailing.
Nora (2025)
A songwriter who has all but given up on her dreams of stardom moves back to her hometown, where she’s confronted with memories of her past and ghosts of a life she may not have been ready to give up after all, in Nora.
F*CKTOYS [SIFF2025]
A sex worker embarks on an odyssey across the desolated landscape of Trashtown in the wild and vibrant F*cktoys, written, produced, directed, and starring Annapurna Sriram.
Yakuza Wives (aka Yakuza Ladies, aka Gokudô no onna-tachi)(1986) [88 Films]
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The wife of an imprisoned Yakuza is helping guide his gang and their wives while her little sister gets raped and eventually married her rapist to then become a Yakuza wife attached to a different gang.
INVENTION [SIFF2025]
An actress searches to know her deceased father in Invention, an odd narrative/documentary mix.
The Swimmer (1968)
It’s a shame that “The Twilight Zone” ended its television run just before John Cheever’s short story “The Swimmer” appeared in The New Yorker – Rod Serling’s half-hour anthology drama would have been a perfect environment for adapting Cheever’s surreal and disturbing 12-page tale. Instead, the husband-and-wife team of Frank and Eleanor Perry opted to greatly expand the Cheever story into a feature-length film. The result was the cinematic equivalent of building a three-story home on a one-story foundation.
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Jakoman & Tetsu (1964) [88 Films]
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A village filled with fishermen who only live there during the fishing season finds themselves at odds when a mysterious man joins them and soon the son of the owners comes to stay at well. Things become tense and they must figure out their issues to be able to salvage the fishing season.