Rain Then And Now

Yui Yamaguchi's short film.

Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

In a family with an older brother whose young life is going to the end and parents under all kinds of pressures and sorrows, a young girl saw everything pass by alone during the whole journey of growing-up.

Overworked and underpaid, the 30 year-old film set runner Jonathan tries to complete all the tasks that pelt down on him like a relentless rain shower. When he's suddenly taken by surprise by a real downpour, he finds shelter where he least expects it. After the rain, he at last finds the strength to face up to his life with renewed energy.

　　Under the drizzling rain of the bustling Saigon city, a dreamy musician and a hard-headed realistic girl stumble across each other and fall in love. In the face of economic, social, familial, and romantic adversity, they are yet to answer their own questions on how to have a happy life.

The movie "Yagmurda Yikansam" , looks at life through the ones who are left behind in women murders' eyes. The story of Gamze, murdered by her parents, tells the life after the murder, not one that ended with it. The fact that the victims in women murders are not only the ones who are murdered, is told from the story of Gamze. In the story, the anger, loneliness, despair and longings of 15 year old Gamze meets the audience with a perspective not taken before.. Hale, who is about thirty five years old (named Gamze when she was a child), begins to open the doors of her past that she had kept securely close with the surprise proposal of her boyfriend Engin.It is hard for Hale to be human, to love other people and truly be herself. As Hale started to face her past slowly, she starts to become a more warm person. Neither the rains, nor Engin can erase the past. Hale would get over her past with facing her childhood Gamze.

High in the mountains, shepherds watch the clouds work. A meteorologist monitors weather forecasts and alerts shepherds of necessary weather changes. Selyanka lives under the mountain; shepherds sometimes help her to water the garden. Once, having received generous gratitude for their work, the shepherds, in joy, do not notice how the Selyanka's garden is flooded with pouring rain.

Young Mohamed Dih, who in Seville, returns to his birthplace – a refugee camp in Western Sahara. Time flows differently here: the times of the day are marked by calls to prayer and the seasons – by the rainfall. When a torrential downpour destroys his family’s home, the protagonist stays in the camp for longer to help to rebuild it.

Part time Twitch streamer, part time drug courier; both low level. Slithering between life and death, online and offline. The carefree summer of global progress seems to be over - are these the final days of both, the illusion of overarching narrative, and of Jerome the Saint.

The shaman lives with his family in the midst of the harsh expanses that stretch between the Tien Shan Mountains.

Directed by Ahmed Khechine.

Trials and tribulations of a Jewish family from Sarajevo during turbulent times between 1914 and 1945. Based on TV series of the same title.

Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life.

Eleven-year-old Aisha wants to fish for a living, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Aisha’s life transforms when fisherman Hassan decides to teach her how to fish.

On a heavily rainy day, Na Ra lost her beloved husband and Woo Ki lost his beloved father. Two years later, Na Ra and Woo Ki meet as a teacher and student at a high school. Since his father died on the rainy day, he is afraid of rain. Na Ra tries to take care of Woo Ki and they are able to console each other. Teachers and students at the school though, eye them suspiciously.

A group of boys shatters the matriarchal memory of an old bedroom. In the face of impending danger, the older boys vie for leadership. As the evening progresses, they turn to violence. Chico, the young misfit, finds a tragic portent of desire.

Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to Purple Rain. Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language (which has no word for "purple," hence the title). Resplendent in a purple robe and matching chopper, smoking hot guitarist Mdou Moctar arrives in a music-mad Niger town and sets about wooing a local beauty, clashing with his pious father, and fencing with the jealous king of the local scene (Kader Tanoutanoute, as wily and dapper as Morris Day) until their climactic six-string shootout.

Images from the bridge over Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. The inland waterway vessels Rose and Pluie de roses pass each other. Changes pile up and the camera unravels them, through shooting, for a mise en abyme of the fall.