Night Market

Breakthrough

2013

Toby is keen to impress his mentor and admits disturbed new patient Judith on the professor's behalf. Lowry conducts the initial interview unaware that Judith's arrival is no accident but part of a carefully orchestrated plan to bring the two of them together.

Silent Partner

2021

After winning a controversial case, a Black attorney at a white-shoe law firm questions the legitimacy of his recent promotion.

Living all of Life

2022

After a lifetime together, Susana has been abandoned by her husband. She is in denial and holds on to the past. One day, she needs the help of her neighbor, Gloria, a free-spirited woman that she can’t stand. But the friendship that emerges between them awakens Susana's desire to live in the present.

Artemide’s Knee

2008

Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature. Out of the abyss, Kathleen Ferrier sings “The Farewell” from Gustav Mahler’s “The Song of the Earth”, (which the composer wrote in 1909 after the death of his daughter) and Heinrich Schütz’s Lament on the Death of His Wife. The landscape also provides solace: the mountain grove where Endymion pines for his beloved Artemis, “a wild thing, untouchable, mortal,” appears to embody the Japanese concept of ‘mono no aware’ — a wistful acceptance of the fleeting beauty of things.

Supernova

2007

A boy and his father spend a day at the beach and discuss life, death and the exploding sun.

Hotel Chevalier

2007

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

An Imaginary Life

2007

For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.

Pulse

Lilly wakes up in the middle of the night. Her heart beats uneven and her pulse is lower then ever. Maybe she'll die? To survive she needs to eat, but to eat she needs to loose control. Will she dare to let go, when the anorexia makes her believe that the control is the one thing that keeps her alive?