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A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.

Max, a widow and recovering alcoholic, is a security guard who works in a boutique store, where the previous security guard suffered mental breakdown. Max soon begins to become haunted by visions of a girl in mirrors, and his co-workers begin to die gruesome deaths.

It tells the story of an unemployed and homeless single father (Takeshi Sakamoto) with two sons looking for work in depression-era Tokyo, whose lives intersects with those of a single mother of a little daughter likewise forlornly seeking a way (and a place) to live. (imdb)

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis. (imdb)

A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art. (imdb)

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause. (imdb)

A lonely teenager yearns to connect with her favorite pop star - whose charmed existence isn't quite as rosy it appears...

Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return. (imdb)

Commander Kit Draper and Colonel Dan McReady are orbiting Mars in an exploritory surveyor. A malfunction forces them to eject with only Draper and a monkey named Mona surviving. Draper must learn to survive in this hostile environment fighting thirst, hunger and even hostile aliens if he expects to see home again. (imdb)

The narratives that entwine through this observant and occasionally alarming film reflect events from Franco's own adolescence, yet they speak to any generation, with kids drawn toward vice for its own sake, seeking some combination of cheap thrills and meaningful connection. (tiff.net)