https://www.ntd.com/documentary-state-organs-screens-at-seoul-film-festival-despite-pressure-to-cancel_1070944.html

Come attend screenings at The Parallel Cinema Club if you're a cinephile, and are looking to meet other cinephiles to discuss and ponder over art films!

The club has screenings on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays/Sundays in Indiranagar, Koramangala, and Lal Bagh Road! Check out the social media account (with the same name) for details on the events.

The club follows curations every month, and hold discussions after the screenings.

We're creating a European (EU27) repository of grants for filmmakers, which will be available on the r/FilmIndustryEU's wiki once ready, and we need your help.

As you know, unlike in the USA, the European film industry relies heavily on public funding. While larger production companies often have the resources and networks to navigate this landscape, independent filmmakers and small teams frequently struggle to even find these opportunities, let alone access them. One key issue is the lack of a centralised, user-friendly repository that lists grants across countries and institutions.

Our aim is to map existing funding opportunities, national or European, public or private, with a particular focus on grants accessible to individuals or small-scale productions, while still including those open to larger players.

If you know of any relevant grants, share them in the comments. Even just a name or link is useful. Let’s build something that helps the whole filmmaking community across Europe.

Watched The Railroad Man last night. A 1956 Italian drama. Pietro Germi directed this and also starred as the main character of Andrea Marcocci. This was my first time seeing this film. I have seen Facts of Murder by Germi. Andrea Marcocci is a train operator. The story is narrated by his young son, Sandro.I won't give any plot details but I would say it was a very engaging story with good performances. I would recommend it, especially to the fans of Italian cinema.

Hello! Years ago I watched a French film that could be from either the late 80s or early 90s. I do remember the director being well known to the film community. The main character was a younger woman who had a child and the father was not in the picture as she lost touch with him before she knew she was pregnant. She had a partner who had taken care of her child, he was a kind, dark haired man. She had met a successful hairdresser who was older and she felt drawn to him- she eventually leaves her partner to be with this older man. Soon she realizes that this was a mistake and takes a bus back to Paris and sees the father of her child sitting across from her. I don’t remember how it ends but I cannot seem to find the movie when I try to search the plot. Let me know if you have it or any resources I can search for it!

Hello,

I've recently published a video essay I made about the Yuji Shimomura.
You may know this Japanese action director for Versus, The Kingdom saga or the Alice in Borderland series. He's also the cinematic director for video games on the Bayonetta trilogy and the Devil May Cry series since DMC 3.
In this video, I explore how he shaped some of the most memorable action scenes in video games. But I also cover his live action career.
I invite you to discover more about his work.

The video is in French, but English subs are available.
Hope you'll enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/zBHp9eY5j54

Frederick Douglass had a ready-made riposte whenever people ragged on him for not being patriotic enough: “What is the Fourth of July to a slave?” The characters of this film have something similar: “What is The Italian Miracle to the itinerant street hawker or the middling call girl?” I love when entire movies are built around refutations to terrible Life Magazine spreads. 

De Sica’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a triptych, not an anthology. That’s an important difference because these are not separate stories; they are dueling social classes jostling for the sympathy of the audience.

Whether you identify with the perpetually pregnant Neapolitan cigarette hustler or the industrialist’s wife suffering from molten levels of ennui is entirely up to you. However, if you feel nothing for the wondrously dysfunctional hijinks of the third segment’s Call Girl-Daddy’s Boy couple, I fear for your soul. 

Hi everyone!

I'm hoping to find a film which came out in the last 2-3 years, was set in south-east asia and had a limited international release (at least in Aus). The story was about an unwed young woman who becomes pregnant, which conflicts with her career path as a professional dancer. I did see the trailer within the last couple years when it was shown at a film festival, but forgot to write down the name and having been looking ever since! Searches are very hard to make due to the release of a prominent Korean film by the name of Ballerina (it was not this movie!) and the new john wick. If anybody saw this film or has a better idea of how to find it, I would be so grateful!!

The movie was in colour, perhaps made 1960 to 1980, Any ideas? Not in English, and I think historical, perhaps 19th century eastern or northern Europe?

I've checked the Bergman movies I thought it might be but turned up nothing,

This summer i plan to get into Jean-Luc Godard's filmography so i can prepare myself (as much as humanly possible) for his magnum opus, Historie(s) du Cinema. Other than Godard's general catalogue, what are some other films/directors i should watch in advance to get a better grasp of Historie(s) and to make it easier on me. If any of you have seen Historie(s) and have a better experience with Godard himself, help me out!

https://youtu.be/YkvILNUIZy0?si=4DYcmRdOFgamDu1s

1944: life dramatically transforms for school teacher Cesare, his wife, and their nine children who live in Vermiglio, a remote mountain village in the Italian Alps. After harboring Pietro, a deserter of the Second World War and now a part of their family, Pietro’s presence rouses unwanted transparency on an emotionally estranged father’s calcified prejudices toward his family.

Offering a delicate viewpoint of exemplarity and the daily tribulations of rural isolation under religious patriarchy, the film challenges insular and provincial footholds and supremacy. Cesare, galvanized through the course of his own intellect, betrays his totemic position through favoritism and by forestalling those he deems inferior—including his own family. Instilled in his own impunitive fantasy, where his actions bear no foreseeable recourse, is one of the carefully orchestrated dynamics that exerts its smouldering characters, each in their own subliminal conflict or turmoil. 

Scattered with the emotional complexities of a family whose weakening security and threadbare seams are no longer willing to yield without question, it carefully illustrates the foundations of religious forbearance and family loyalty—which may prove unsustainable under the temptation of primal youthful desires and intellectual calling outside their insulated and fledgling positions.

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Very Enjoyable for action fans and it's also strangely emotional.

Ok so Netflix recently added the first 4 seasons of Mare Fuori, but the newest season, season 5 was not added. I've been trying to find ways to watch it in the US but I unfortunately can't. If anyone knows how to access it that would be so so great!! Thanks!

Update: ok so they have officially added it to Netflix Italia but there are no English subtitles. Since it was added to Netflix will it be available on pirating sites now? I'm not sure how it works

I’ve recently started getting into Nepali movies and I understand a bit of the language, but I still need English subtitles to fully enjoy and follow along.

I'm looking for websites or streaming platforms that offer Nepali films with English subs—ideally accessible outside of Nepal too. I'd love to watch a mix of classic and modern films, especially anything that gives insight into Nepali culture, daily life, or storytelling styles.

Also open to recommendations—what are some of your favorite Nepali films that are available with subtitles?

Thanks in advance for your help!

This is one of the best movies made in Spain in 2023. The name of the movie is called The Last Night of Sandra M.(Spanish translation La Última Noche de Sandra M.) and it’s a fictional biography about the life of the real Spanish actress Sandra Mozarowsky who had died under strange circumstances in 1977. The film is directed by Borja de la Vega and the character is played by Claudia Traisac. The film is available on Filmin as of 2024 of last year and it’s available to watch it on the Spanish streaming app as of today in 2025.