Memory & Desire

A family comedy about arranged marriage

Dissatisfied with the state of health services available in the United States during the 1960s, an activist in Chicago forms a group that provides education and counseling for women seeking abortions.

Two women finally find the love and respect they deserve after both of their long-term, loveless relationships fail and they meet each other.

After her birthday party, ad executive Michelle finds herself caught between cheerful Tony, dreamy Bill, youthful Jeb, and rich Tiger. Overwhelmed with stress, another complication quietly forms in her life.

An ensemble film about four everyday people: a store manager, a security guard, a fire fighter and a clerk who struggle in the aftermath of trauma.

While at work, Robin, a French immigrant pilot, receives a phone call that sends shock waves through his soul. Unseen by others, turmoil seeps into his inner world and echoes in his daily life. He will have to let this pain in, but not now. An impressionistic depiction of an all-but-ordinary day, The near future takes us to the poetic boundary between droning engines and complete silence, aerial and terrestrial, pastoral and urban, man and machine, life and death.

Two unstable teens live together in a slum apartment. When, in a poetic move, rats start invading their home, they realize that they have to deal with an unspoken matter that is threatening to ruin their relationship.

In a tightly-knit Cree community in northern Canada, 16-year-old Alyssa's plans to become a mom begin to unravel.

An old man's daily routine and the things he encounters.

Reunion is the story of that person you carry with you. It's the story of a first love, a time and place and lives not led.

The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.

A famous mommy blogger faces an empty nest as her daughter prepares to go away to college. When she turns to her blog for advice, she finds herself on the attack by a reader who has conflicting opinions. While she deals with him online, offline she finally meets a great single dad and sparks start to fly. What she doesn’t know is that the confrontational reader and the adorable single dad are, in fact, the same person.

An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.

Mister De Vries (93) sits at his window awaiting his death. Until one cold winter day he is surprised by the arrival of a parcel. When he subsequently sees a pigeon flying off he knows that this is no ordinary message. His time has come. Mister De Vries momentarily hesitates to open it. When he chances it, he finds his old Frisian skates. There’s only one thing to be done.

A wife and mother, diagnosed with breast cancer, decides to truly live her life, which has become comfortable and predictable, and the family must adjust.

Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. Park’s films often had a strong female perspective and The Risky Road is no exception. The story of a country girl who comes to the city to work, but falls for a rich man and undeservedly gets a bad reputation, the film was marketed as “the drama every woman should see”. The surviving fragment, showing the despair of Phillips’s character, is a real cinematic gem that leaves one yearning for more material of the film to be discovered. In 2008, a tinted nitrate fragment, with Swedish intertitles at the opening of the second reel, was deposited at the Archival Film Collections of the Svenska Filminstitutet. From the fragment, a 35mm B&W duplicate negative was made, from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference.

Jess, a former country music child-star turned single mother, decides to make a comeback after a 15-year hiatus.

A smouldering memory puts a young bride somewhere between present and past.

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This short film tells the story of an amnesic, generous homeless man, Sonny, who squats in a dirty old RV on an empty lot, mostly keeping to himself. When he discovers his RV has been towed, he must get past his fear and pride, and befriend a brash young woman, in order to reclaim his RV and rediscover his identity. From an award-winning filmmaker but first-time director.