Elina Löwensohn Movies

Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose,...

Once upon a time there was Louise and her friend, the magician. But his last trick left a bitter taste in her mouth. He disappeared in a curtain of...

The Wake is the title of a large-scale multimedia project, the main element of which is an eight-hour long silent movie. The film is based on...

According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud....

18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form...

Nina, a young Polish woman exiled in London, and Pierre Bernard, envoy of General de Gaulle, are part of the international team assembled in...

The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok...

The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.

Ziggy is a freedom loving Parisian often in debts and usually misunderstood by fellow citizens. Though there's a pretty unique karma he has it when...

A teacher goes the distance to help a new student whose family is threatened with deportation.

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by...

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is...

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and...

Histoires courtes, the France 2 program, gives carte blanche to Bertrand Mandico who brings together three of his short films here: Rainer, A Vicious...

A minimalist, atmospheric, meditation on the theme of "Love" or "Amour" that focuses on reconciliation and forgiveness.

Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called...

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an...

Nearly 3 hours of LGBTQ and Coming-of-Age short films and music videos await you in the debut of Altered Innocence’s cinematic mixtape supreme!...

A man is dreaming of a city. Unless the city is dreaming of him.