Strand Releasing (Firm)
1) Africa
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
עברית
Description
Struggling with post-retirement life, 68-year-old Meir goes out on a personal journey to reconstruct his shaken sense of meaning and vitality, in this cinematic experience of an aging parent crafted by the hands of his loving son.
2) Digger
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling psychological western set in the rich forests of Northern Greece. When his estranged son appears with a motorcycle and a grudge, an iconoclastic farmer at war with an encroaching industry must let nature decide the fate of this tumultuous relationship.
3) Bluebeard
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
Controversial director Catherine Breillat retells the grisly fairytale of a child bride who is married to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three fairy sisters discover this, they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years and live in a world of dreams. Through her active dream life, Anastasia will find love, loss, and possibly a waking life.
5) Mogul Mowgli
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.
6) Minyan
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A young Russian Jewish immigrant in Brighton Beach, caught up in the tight constraints of his community, develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors, two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss — and explores the East Village where he finds a world teeming with the energy of youth, desire and risk. Set in the late 1980s, as AIDS hammered New York City, Minyan...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Revealed in four chapters, it tells the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past. Incorporating familial history and mythology, dream logic and surrealism, I WAS A SIMPLE MAN is a time-shifting, kaleidoscopic story of a fractured family facing the death of their patriarch that will take us from the high-rises of contemporary...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains nudity and sexual content. In this sexually frank portrait of female lust and vulnerability, a mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
While her girlfriend is hospitalized in a coma state after finding her floating in a bathtub without any vital signs, Clara starts on a path of physical and psychological transformation, with the goal of "possessing" her in some way.
11) The Blue Caftan
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Arabic
Description
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice shows an utmost dedication in learning the art of embroidery and tailoring from Halim. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Claire (Lena Olin) lives a quiet domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband’s illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard’s moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory and behavior deteriorate, she shields his condition from the art community while trying...
13) The Evening Hour
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger) maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his declining Appalachian mining town, looking after the old and infirm in the community while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts to help make ends meet. But when his old friend, Terry Rose (Cosmo Jarvis), returns with dangerous plans that threaten the fragile balance Cole has crafted, his world and identity are thrown into disarray.
14) Cicada
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After a string of unsuccessful and awkward encounters with women, Ben goes “back on the dick.” Cicada follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben’s past crawls to the surface.
