Movies: Bittersweet

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences....

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...

A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child....

Lucas Simons, an 11-year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently becomes a YouTube phenomenon, and must learn to live life in th...

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker end up on the run from a group of violent vigilantes....

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno....

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor....

After the sudden death of her pregnant partner, a closeted attorney must embrace her sexuality and humanity, as she seeks custody of their newborn....

This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia whe...

A glimpse into a visual representation of memory; A Christmas-time series of meals, coffees, and movies, with friends, lovers, and housemates. Faced with the compounding of faces and places, each moment begins to collide with one another: voices are...

Identical twins embark on an epic hike that forces them to confront the complexities of sisterhood and the challenges of standing on their own. A heartwarming and humorous short film exploring the bonds of sisterhood in the face of loss....

Bathed in the gentle embrace of a rainstorm, Nathan, stirred by an intimate moment with Alex, finds himself compelled to voice the currents of his inner discontent. Amidst the flickering city lights, their souls diverge—one yearning for a love that t...

A hopeless baker's attempt at taking his own life is interrupted by a persistent child in need of a birthday cake....

Romantic-comedy about a college student obsessed with "Annie Hall" who is just shaking off his addiction when he meets the modern version of Annie herself....

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A migrant working-class couple, after losing their daughter to an ill-fated destiny, seeks friends in each other....

As two teen siblings prepare to leave their childhood home, a forgotten letter brings back someone unexpected — the grown-up, jaded version of their favorite childhood TV character....

Raymond, a maladjusted cart pusher at a dying grocery store, has a brief yet confusing romance with an underage cashier during the final months of a suburban New Jersey summer....

An elderly woman is confronted by an intruder in her home. Shortly after she realizes a familiar face and a familiar feeling....

Eccentric, non-binary fortune teller Fei Liu's way of life is threatened when figures and phantoms of present and past visit their tent and plague their subconscious, throwing their own future - and grip on reality - into turmoil....