The Distance Between Us

The ultimate romantic masterpiece of recent years. With deep philosophical and existential concerns, Celine Song's directorial debut united the fate of three people, leaving no viewer with dry eyes. — Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are separated when Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, Hae Sung decides to visit Nora for a few days in New York where she lives with her American husband Arthur. Confronted with the ghosts of a life they did not live, they come face to face with the concepts of destiny, love and the choices that make up a life. — Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2024 Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2024 Official Selection - International Competition | Berlin Film Festival | 2023

Those who have experienced long distance relationships will see themselves on screen while watching the sincerity with which the waiting time, the silence on Skype and the simulation of contact are reflected. A direct, modern and inventive depiction of an uncomfortable but very real situation. — In love, Sherhi and Alex are ready for the next step in their relationship. But she will suddenly accept a tempting job offer, which forces her to move from Barcelona to Los Angeles for a year. Via Skype, love turns out to be harder for both of them than they initially imagined. — Official Selection | Athens International Film Festival | 2014 Best New Director | Goya Awards | 2015 Best Film | Málaga Spanish Film Festival | 2014

The first film directed by Greta Gerwig, back in 2008. In probably the most famous film of the mumblecore movement at the time, alongside genre pioneer Joe Swanberg, she finds her future footing in a must-see cinematic diamond in the rough. — A couple maintains their relationship despite the distance that separates them, but the problems are not lacking and are constantly growing. Without explaining how or why, we watch the decline of a relationship which can happen to anyone.

Sally Rooney’s novel became a pop-culture phenomenon on screen and made stars of Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Connell and Marianne, forever drawn together and pushed apart like magnets. One sentence could put things right between them, and neither can bring themselves to say it. — In a small town in the west of Ireland, Connell is the popular boy who plays football, while Marianne, in his year at school, has no friends and doesn’t seem to want any. When something sparks between them, they agree that nobody at school will ever know. The arrangement survives for years, through Dublin and through other relationships, and in all that time they never quite manage to say what it is.

Ritesh Batra, director of the audience-favorite, "The Lunchbox" returns with yet another bittersweet comedy about unexpected love and the modern face of India, full of tradition and contradiction. — A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect.

In a vast metropolis full of antitheses, love could be hiding where you least expect. This ingenious rom-com from Argentina lives and breathes where the others merely begin, justifying why it’s been worshipped by audiences. Winner of the Golden Athena at the Athens International Film Festival. — Mariana and Martin live on the same block in Buenos Aires. They pass by each other daily, shop at the same stores, swim at the same pool but have never met. Martin rarely leaves his apartment after his breakup, while Mariana works as an architect and feels incapable of any serious commitment, since coming out of a 4-year relationship. — Golden Athena | Athens International Film Festival | 2011

An unparalleled feat of cinematography that gives a whole new meaning to action films, an adventure shot from the point of view of a blind man with stubbornness able to shift the fate of his own Titanic, bypass the icebergs and reach redemption, by the side of his own beloved. — Yako is blind and disabled, confined to his wheelchair. He is in love with Shirpa. As they live in different places, they have never met but find each other every day using their mobiles. When Shirpa is disturbed by some shocking news, Yako decides to go straight to her, despite his condition. He just needs the help of five strangers at certain points along the way, between him and her. What could go wrong? — Orizzonti Audience Award | Venice Film Festival | 2021

Many still call it the most beautiful film ever made. When two neighbours discover that his wife and her husband are having an affair, the camera never once shows the cheating couple’s faces, and what grows between the two left behind is a love that never happens, yet you feel it with every sense. — Chow, a newspaper editor, rents a new flat with his wife, and on the other side of the wall lives Li-zhen, whose husband is a salesman who’s nearly always away. Chow’s wife is hardly ever home either, and one evening the two neighbours work out that their spouses are having an affair with each other. Left alone together, they share something neither of them wants to name. — Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Cannes Film Festival | 2000 Best Foreign Language Film | César Awards | 2001 Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Actress (Maggie Cheung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Film Editing | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001

An anarchist creator condenses all the conflicts of the time from the Civil War to the regime change (Metapolitefsi), through an allegorical story in the form of a modern tragedy. Papatakis draws inspiration from a true incident somewhere in Spain, to talk about a wounded homeland. — During the Greek dictatorship, a young man flees for Paris, where he seeks help from a lonely, misanthropic distant relative who owns a fur processing workshop. He carries with him the photo of a singer whom he presents as his sister, creating a series of misunderstandings which drag him into a vicious circle of successive lies and fantasies. The furrier will fall in love with the girl in the photo. — Best Screenplay | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1986 Hellenic Association of Film Critics Best Film Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1986

One of Pantelis Voulgaris' most famous films and at the same time one of the most important moments in contemporary Greek cinema, this Venice and Thessaloniki award-winning story of doomed love is still moving and thrilling. — The story of a young left-wing couple from the early post-civil war years to the post-communist revolution of 1974, during the harsh years of lawlessness, persecution, arrests and imprisonment. — Special Mention for Best Performance (Themis Bazaka) | Venice Film Festival | 1985 Specia Mention - OCIC Award | Venice Film Festival | 1985 Best Film | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1985 Best Actress (Themis Bazaka) | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1985

In the second of the two episodes of the legendary TV Decalogue that became feature films, Krzysztof Kieslowski, composes a beautiful ode about reaching maturity and the notion of incomplete love. — A 19-year-old postman feels that his life is gaining meaning when he starts watching the apartment of a beautiful neighbor with his telescope, but never dares to confess his love to her. — OCIC Award | San Sebastián Film Festival | 1988 Special Prize of the Jury | San Sebastián Film Festival | 1988 Audience Award | São Paulo International Film Festival | 1989