Triangle of Sadness (
2022) | IMDb:
7.3
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
Starring:
Harris Dickinson
,
Charlbi Dean
,
Woody Harrelson
,
Zlatko Burić
,
Vicki Berlin
,
Dolly de Leon
About Endlessness (
2019) | IMDb:
6.8
A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.
Starring:
Jan-Eje Ferling
,
Kristina Ekmark
,
Martin Serner
,
Bengt Bergius
,
Anja Broms
,
Magnus Wallgren
Directed by:
Roy Andersson
DAU. Cinema (
2018) | IMDb:
4.5
An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part behavioral experiment – involving hundreds of participants from around the world. Combining elements of film, theatre, science, psychology, architecture, visual arts and performance, it has created a complex and absorbing world that has to be lived as much as seen.
Starring:
Teodor Currentzis
,
Radmila Shegoleva
,
Lidiya Shchogolyeva
,
Oleg Garkusha
,
Yuriy Alekseev
,
Denis Krasnoshapko
Directed by:
Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Paradise: Love (
2012) | IMDb:
7
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.
Starring:
Margarethe Tiesel
,
Peter Kazungu
,
Inge Maux
,
Dunja Sowinetz
,
Helen Brugat
,
Carlos Mkutano
Directed by:
Ulrich Seidl
Enter the Void (
2010) | IMDb:
7.2
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
Lourdes (
2009) | IMDb:
6.9
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Starring:
Sylvie Testud
,
Léa Seydoux
,
Elina Löwensohn
,
Bruno Todeschini
,
Gilette Barbier
,
Gerhard Liebmann
Directed by:
Jessica Hausner