The soft ache of cinema

Waves

Trey Edward Shults · 2019

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

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Lukas Dhont · 2022

Léo y Rémi, de 13 años, son amigos de toda la vida. Hasta que un suceso impensable los separa. Léo se acerca entonces a Sophie, la madre de Rémi, para tratar de entender.

How to Have Sex

Molly Manning Walker · 2023

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

I Saw the TV Glow

Jane Schoenbrun · 2024

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

Pat Boonnitipat · 2024

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

The Eternal Memory

Maite Alberdi · 2023

Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.

Lilya 4-ever

Lukas Moodysson · 2002

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

Her

Spike Jonze · 2013

En un futuro cercano, Theodore, un hombre solitario a punto de divorciarse que trabaja en una empresa como escritor de cartas para terceras personas, compra un día un nuevo sistema operativo basado en el modelo de Inteligencia Artificial, diseñado para satisfacer todas las necesidades del usuario. Para su sorpresa, se crea una relación romántica entre él y Samantha, la voz femenina de ese sistema operativo.

Anora

Sean Baker · 2024

Anora, una joven prostituta de Brooklyn, tiene la oportunidad de vivir una historia de Cenicienta cuando conoce e impulsivamente se casa con el hijo de un oligarca. Cuando la noticia llega a Rusia, su cuento de hadas se ve amenazado, ya que los padres parten hacia Nueva York para intentar conseguir la anulación del matrimonio.

Lady Bird

Greta Gerwig · 2017

Christine McPherson está no último ano do colégio e o que mais deseja é ir fazer faculdade longe de Sacramento, Califórnia, ideia rejeitada por sua mãe. Lady Bird, como a garota de forte personalidade exige ser chamada, não se dá por vencida e leva o plano de ir embora adiante mesmo assim. Enquanto a hora não chega, ela se divide entre as obrigações estudantis no colégio católico, o primeiro namoro, típicos rituais de passagem para a vida adulta e inúmeros desentendimentos com a progenitora.

Aftersun

Charlotte Wells · 2022

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Frances Ha

Noah Baumbach · 2013

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders · 1984

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

All About My Mother

Pedro Almodóvar · 1999

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg · 2022

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Petite Maman

Céline Sciamma · 2021

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.

C'mon C'mon

Mike Mills · 2021

Johnny é um jornalista de rádio que viaja pelo país entrevistando várias crianças sobre seus pensamentos a respeito de seu mundo e seu futuro

Bones and All

Luca Guadagnino · 2022

Cuenta la historia del primer amor entre Maren, una joven que está aprendiendo a sobrevivir al margen de la sociedad, y Lee, un vagabundo con ideas muy intensas que vive marginado. Cuando se conocen, se unen en un viaje de mil millas que les lleva por carreteras, pasajes ocultos y caminos alternos en los Estados Unidos de Ronald Reagan. Pero a pesar de sus esfuerzos, todos los caminos conducen a sus aterradores pasados y a una última parada que determinará si su amor puede sobrevivir a su forma de ser.

Turtles All the Way Down

Hannah Marks · 2024

Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.

The Worst Person in the World

Joachim Trier · 2021

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

Past Lives

Celine Song · 2023

La familia de Nora emigra a Canadá cuando ella tiene 10 años. Pierde el contacto con su amor de la infancia. Muchos años después, cuando Nora está estudiando teatro en Nueva York, se reencuentra con él online.

Man in Love

Chen-Hao Yin · 2021

A debt collector strikes a deal with a debt-ridden woman struggling to care for her ailing father: he will take care of her bills if she agrees to date him.

The Goldfinch

John Crowley · 2019

A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.

All the Bright Places

Brett Haley · 2020

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

Demolition

Jean-Marc Vallée · 2016

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Ian Samuels · 2021

Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.

Beautiful Boy

Felix van Groeningen · 2018

Crónica sobre la adicción a la metanfetamina y el intento de recuperación y de salir de las drogas a través de los ojos de un padre que observa a su hijo mientras lucha contra la enfermedad de la drogodependencia.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky · 2012

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

Water Lilies

Céline Sciamma · 2007

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

Crossing

Levan Akin • 2024

Monster

Hirokazu Kore-eda • 2023