Mary Stephen Movies

Melanie returns to Hong Kong as filmmaker-in-residence at a university after living abroad for decades. She tries to redefine her cultural roots and...

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Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie Rivière

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlotte Véry

Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to...

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Cast: Corinne Lanselle

Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to...

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Cast: Corinne Lanselle

The film tells the story of a young girl who travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong in pursuit of education, but ends up working for her aunt seducing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ma Sichun

A short film co-created by Eric Rohmer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aurélia Alcaïs

A woman agrees to pose nude for a painter, which causes friction with her friend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elodie Meurlargé

A young woman gradually locks herself in her fear.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nathalie Moncorger

A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosette

A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosette

Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, as a teenager Thomas dreamed of becoming his assistant. He wrote to JLG and asked him if he could...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard

A seven-part anthology film exploring the history of Hong Kong from the 1940s to present day.

Genre: Action

Cast: Timmy Hung Tin-Ming

Since the start of the 1990s, a period during which the Chinese government criticised the Western media for biased reporting, Chinese orphanages have...

Genre: Documentary

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"The Apology" explores the lives of former "comfort women," the more than 200,000 girls forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Today, they...

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This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shohreh Aghdashloo

In an enchanted forest, back in the time of the Druids, the shepherd Céladon and the shepherdess Astrée share a pure and chaste love....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy Gillet

A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Melvil Poupaud

How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Rivière

The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Katerina Didaskalou

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lucy Russell

Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clara Bellar

The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pascal Greggory

In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhou Xun

Handan and Korhan a middle-aged couple who live their lives in one of istanbul's best neighborhoods. Handan constantly invents things for herself in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Songül Öden

Shot during Mary Stephen's time in Canada, Labyrinthe is an experimental spellbinder. Two girls, one Caucasian and the other Asian, are dressed in...

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A Very Easy Death is a profoundly moving end-of-life account of Stephen's mother passing away in a hospital. Taking inspiration from Simone de...

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In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten...

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Cast: Breyten Breytenbach

Shades of Silk is a film of mood and memory; two Chinese women, who had been friends in school, are caught between a longing for social stability and...

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Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to...

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Cast: Corinne Lanselle

A documentary by Mary Stephen.

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A documentary by Mary Stephen

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The universal story of the meeting between a man and a woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marina Hands

A featurette directed by French actress Edwige Shaki where Eric Rohmer worked as a technical adviser, THE CURVE is a movie that has the inimitable...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Edwige Shaki

Return to the Border is a documentary directed by Zhao Liang about his return to his hometown in China that borders the Yalu river and North Korea....

Genre: Documentary

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A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bartu Küçükçağlayan

A young woman in modern-day Shanghai whose chance encounter with a stranger moves her to divulge a deep-seated secret. In atmospheric flashbacks she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jiang Yiyan

A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosette

A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosette

Lau may love to indulge in a bit of alcohol and womanizing, but he's also a serious writer who's respected by his colleagues in the cultural world....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Wan