Outside the Wire

Mata-ne

A distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared.

Good Luck Fuck Face

2025

Two friends brainstorm the worst possible sentence to tweet from one of their famous husband's accounts as revenge for cheating. It's an assassination attempt done with words rather than bullets. But things don’t quite go as expected.

Rubber Band Pistol

1962

Jūzō Itami's debut short film, concerning a group of unique young people in the high economic growth period who are into games with rubber band pistols.

Take Note

2024

Two girls are afraid of what will happen if one of the student’s parents might discover their mutual “crushes,” as they monitor all messages on her phone. Instead, they share written notes in class. After learning this, their teacher Ms. Amado is forced to confront conservative prejudices within the school system by coming out to her entire class.

Zero Motivation

2014

Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.

The Great Raid

2005

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

Closing the Ring

2007

During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.

Lessons

2019

A Chinese "study mama" considers her daughter Nana as her everything, sometimes her fantasy world. But after having a fight this morning, she finds Nana's missing.