Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Based on his own experiences, writer and director Alexandre Rockwell’s suitably grungy black-and-white off-beat comedy gives Steve Buscemi one of his early leading roles as Adolpho Rollo, a penniless New York screenwriter with big cinematic ambitions, a 500-page screenplay to sell and debt collectors looking to throw him out of his crumbling apartment. 

When he puts a small ad in the paper it attracts the backing of charismatic criminal, Joe (Seymour Cassel – who would appear alongside Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs made the same year) who takes Adolpho on a liberating odyssey through Manhattan, introducing the writer to the wilder side of life. 

At the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, In the Soup picked up the Grand Jury Prize (beating the heavily-hyped Reservoir Dogs); and is now ripe for rediscovery on the big screen, newly restored.

A 4K restoration c/o IndieCollect.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Every day, Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) buys a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1, symbolizing the day he'll get over his lost love. He's also got his eye on a mysterious woman in a blond wig (Brigitte Lin), oblivious of the fact she's a drug dealer. Cop 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) is distraught with heartbreak over a breakup. But when his ex drops a spare set of his keys at a local cafe, a waitress (Faye Wong) lets herself into his apartment and spruces up his life.

An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.

Bouchra (35), a queer Moroccan coyote living in NYC, is wrestling with writer’s block for her first film. As she begins a series of difficult yet long overdue phone calls with her mother, Aicha, in Casablanca, forgotten memories begin to resurface.  Balancing the precarity of working as an artist in New York, the rift in her identity between her two homes and an array of friendships and romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning with her mother and herself becomes her path to expression.

With a lived-in granularity and unmistakable visual style, BOUCHRA, the debut feature from acclaimed visual artists Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki (best known together from their 2020 web series 2 LIZARDS), is a singular portrait effortlessly towing the line between documentary, visual art and resonant family drama. Deeply felt, surprisingly sexy and formally adventurous, Bennani and Barki’s distinctive debut forges new ground.